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Richard Salit has been a reporter at the Providence Journal for 16 years. He worked in several of the newspaper’s regional bureaus covering numerous communities. More recently, he has covered health care.

Salit has won fellowships to annual conferences of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island.

Featured Statements

Helen Glover
stated on September 7, 2011 in a radio talk show:

"A family of four can make up to $88,000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance" under the new federal health care law.

By Richard Salit • October 5, 2011
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
stated on July 29, 2011 in a report:

"Dubious taxpayer-funded" stimulus spending -- Part II.

By Richard Salit • July 21, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 16, 2011 in a speech in the U.S. Senate:

"Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen."

By Richard Salit • July 17, 2011
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
stated on June 29, 2011 in report:

"Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include … $250,000 to provide digital television to the state’s inmate population."

By Richard Salit • July 10, 2011
Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse
stated on June 1, 2011 in A highway billboard:

"Voted the ‘best specialty plate in America’"

By Richard Salit • July 3, 2011
Charles Odimgbe
stated on June 20, 2011 in a meeting of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority board :

"We are one of the most expensive [bus] rides in New England."

By Richard Salit • June 28, 2011
Mike Stenhouse
stated on June 13, 2011 in an appearance on a talk show:

"It’s just crazy that the government will ... make it illegal to use the old [incandescent] bulbs."

By Richard Salit • June 16, 2011
Ian Lang
stated on May 18, 2011 in a state Senate committee hearing:

"Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country."

By Richard Salit • June 9, 2011
John Tassoni Jr.
stated on May 19, 2011 in a news release:

The Central Falls School system "spent $100,000 on a time clock."

By Richard Salit • June 5, 2011
Rhode Island ACLU
stated on May 4, 2011 in a news release:

"No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law"

By Richard Salit • May 22, 2011