🌱 Income Payments Issued + Route 146 Crash + Hamilton at PPAC

Happy Friday, neighbors! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening today in Providence.

First, today's weather:

Turning sunny; windy, cooler. High: 43 Low: 24.

Here are the top stories in Providence today:

1. A Providence man admitted to falsely using a Social Security number to defraud RI Food Stamps and Medicaid programs. Diomedes Ramirez Rodriguez, 48, pleaded guilty to using another person's information to gain $39,023 in health care benefits from RITE care, Rhode Island’s Medicaid Managed Care Program and SNAP benefits from Rhode Island Department of Human Services. Rodriguez is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 28, 2022. (WLNE-TV (ABC6))
2. The first round of monthly guaranteed income payments has been issued to 110 Providence residents. The one-year program was announced back in July as a way to research the concept of providing monthly, no-strings-attached $500 checks to low-income families. The residents were randomly selected out of 4,000 applicants. The median income of the recipients is just $913 a month, and 60 percent of the participants have children under 18. (WPRI.com)
3. A federal grand jury indicted Providence priest James Jackson on child pornography charges. (WLNE-TV (ABC6))
4. This week, Hamilton is opening at Providence Performing Arts Center for a 16-performance run. (The Westerly Sun)
5. One person was hospitalized with minor injuries after a late-night rollover on the southbound side of Route 146, just south of the Mineral Spring Avenue on-ramp in North Providence. (WPRI.com)

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Today in Providence:

• Café Con Leche: Annual Breakfast and Business Expo - Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (7:30 AM)
• A Chamber Conversation with Todd Knapp, Founder & CEO of Envision Technology Advisors - Greater Providence Chamber (11:00 AM)
• Wanskuck Chess Club - Providence Community Library (3:00 PM)
• Hannah Enos Concert - Music Mansion (5:00 PM)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.