Shahendra joins Island Records from Columbia, where he served as senior vice president of content development and co-head of digital marketing since 2018. + Billy Porter, Charlie Puth, Connie ...

Don't just tell us Rhode Island's open-records law is "famously flawed." Show us. So wrote a reader named "Judy" after The Journal ran a front-page story on March 21 on the concerted effort by Gov ...

Instead of staff hauling stacks of papers to the courthouse every few days, data will be uploaded daily, cutting down on ...

It will soon release a request for proposals. THE PILOT Rhode Island probed the feasibility of distributed ledger-supported identity management in a pilot project that ended in June.

Blackwell grew up in Jamaica, and, as the head of Island Records, helped launch the careers of reggae stars like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, as well as rock bands like U2. His memoir is The Islander.

Records related to the formal duties of elected officials would also be less likely to be withheld, boosting public transparency. “It would also help people hold police accountable,” Marion said.

GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to my interview with Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, which produced Bob Marley and the Wailers, U2, Grace Jones, Traffic, Roxy Music, Eno.