Articles by Ivy Scott
9 articles found.
An Old Telephone Song
Home is where the corn nuts are. Cheap and salty, stock gas station food but the only place you ever find …
Taking the Pulse of a Polarized Nation
Reflections on the long years of 1968 and 2020
In the United States, the election year of 1968 is perhaps better compared to 2016 than to 2020. Both were years …
The EXTRA! Files
Volume 40 of the College Hill Independent marks, strangely enough, our 30th anniversary. Thirty years of Metro reporting, 600 Weeks Reviewed, …
Impossible Justice
Interview with Liz Sly, Washington Post ... reporter on the Middle East
content warning: war, murder, sexual violence Liz Sly is the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, a position she has …
The Price of Freedom
One bill’s attempt to reform bail in the Rhode Island Judiciary
“No human being should be in jail because they don’t have $150,” said Michael DiLauro, Deputy Public Defender of the state …
S.T.D. Free?
An inquiry into safe sex among young Rhode Islanders and the state of sex ed in RI public schools
“If I drink Mountain Dew after having sex, will that prevent pregnancy or HIV?” a teenager earnestly asked in one of …
A Future at Any Cost
An interview with Brenda Clement
Brenda Clement is the director of HousingWorks RI, a research organization and think tank at Roger Williams University that explores housing …
Week in Kingdom Animalia
Birdbrains “It is the things we love most that destroy us,” wrote Suzanne Collins in the third book of the Hunger …
Week in Bad Role Models
Don’t Drink & Drone The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had until September 30, 2015 to establish comprehensive rules for the use …