Lynn Arditi

Most workday mornings, Eddie Cascella is too busy to get depressed about his career. From behind the counter at The Coffee Exchange on the East Side of Providence, the 26-year-old environmental scientist serves bags of coffee beans to a steady stream of customers.  “Would you like that ground or whole bean?” he asks each customer. […]

Sarah Gaines worried something was up when she and her colleagues at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography got called into a morning meeting last Thursday.  The Ivy-league educated scientist lives with her husband and two school-age children in Narragansett. And she leads a project in marine conservation in Madagascar. But Gaines, […]

Famous homeowners like Taylor Swift have helped polish the image of Westerly, R.I. But the tony image belies a harsher reality for the year-round folks in this beach town. More than one in five of the town’s roughly 23,100 residents – close to 5,000 people – are enrolled in Medicaid, the government insurance program for […]

Nearly three-quarters of the country reported declines in fatal opioid overdoses in the second half of last year, but in Rhode Island they increased 7 percent, according to a new report by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.  The reason: More people 65 and older in Rhode Island died of opioid overdoses.  Rhode Island is among […]

Brown University will not divest from 10 companies that student activists said facilitated “the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.” The Corporation of Brown University, the university’s governing body, voted Tuesday to support the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on University Resources Management (ACURM) against divestment, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.  ACURM found […]

At a noisy summer block party in Providence one recent afternoon, community health worker Rosa Roman tried to interest a middle-aged handyman in a free tetanus shot. But he was scared. The man, who gave only his first name, Armando, is a 42-year-old immigrant from Puerto Rico. He said he spent the last 20 years […]

Lynn joined The Public’s Radio as health reporter in 2017 after more than three decades as a journalist, including 28 years at The Providence Journal. Her series “A 911 Emergency,” a project of the 2019 ProPublica Local Reporting Network, won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award in the radio/podcast category in 2020. A native of New York City, she graduated from Oberlin College and landed her first journalism job at The Center for Investigative Reporting (now known as Reveal) in Washingt…

Hundreds of Americans continue to die every day from overdoses. More of those deaths now involve stimulants like cocaine and meth mixed with fentanyl. Men of color have been hit particularly hard.

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Lynn joined The Public’s Radio as health reporter in 2017 after more than three decades as a journalist, including 28 years at The Providence Journal. Her series “A 911 Emergency,” a project of the 2019 ProPublica Local Reporting Network, won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award in the radio/podcast category in 2020. A native of New York City, she graduated from Oberlin College and landed her first journalism job at The Center for Investigative Reporting (now known as Reveal) in Washingt…