Truck Crashes Into Restaurant + Lawsuit Against Education Dept.

Morning, people of Providence! It's me again, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Providence Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 62 Low: 47.

Here are the top stories in Providence today:

1. Cranston City Councilmember Aniece Germain and Providence City Councilmember Nirva LaFortune held a press conference at the Rhode Island State House in Providence on Tuesday, calling on the Biden Administration to task for better treatment of Haitian refugees at the southern border. The councilmembers, both Haitian-Americans, are asking the administration and Rhode Island’s congressional delegation to “take appropriate measures to ensure that Haitian people are treated with respect and dignity in the United States.” The conference came as a reaction to the recent photos at the Mexican/American border that showed United States Border Patrol agents ruthlessly running down Haitian migrants on horseback. (Uprise RI)
2. Mayor Jorge Elorza and the Providence City Council filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and the R.I. Department of Education over the funding of Providence schools. The lawsuit comes after General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s office withheld nearly $5 million in state aid from the city at Infante-Green’s direction. City leaders and the Providence Public School District have been disputing over how much money the city was obligated to appropriate to the schools for the fiscal year that ended back on June 30. (WPRI.com)
3. A truck rammed into Sun & Moon Korean Restaurant on Warren Ave. in East Providence on Wednesday morning. (WPRI.com)
4. Mayor Elorza has announced the nine organizations who were selected to provide year-round youth jobs as a part of the city's expansion of the One Providence for Youth, a workforce development program for teens and young adults created by Elorza through the City of Providence's Office of Economic Opportunity. (Press Release Desk)
5. The West End gained a new neighborhood bar recently, with the opening of Lucky Enough on Westminster Street. (Providence Media)

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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.