David Cicilline: “As of this past January, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island stood at an unacceptable high 10.9 percent.”

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

The problem is we haven't committed to a mission. I have asked Secretary Blinken to define what he thinks the mission is.