Newport resident Dawn Euer, a community organizer and lawyer, announced today she is a candidate for state senate in District 13, representing Newport and Jamestown.

Senator Teresa Paiva Weed announced on March 22nd that effective May 1, 2017, she will accept the presidency of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island (HARI), a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to assisting member hospitals to meet the health care needs of Rhode Islanders. Her resignation as Senate President has occured, her resignation from the Senate is expected to happen next week. There will be a special election for Jamestown and Newport within 90 days of her stepping down from her Senate seat, the election would likely happen after this session comes to an end (June/July).

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The recall drive against Ward 3 City Councilman Kevin Jackson will proceed after the city’s Board of Canvassers Friday rejected most of the challenges Jackson’s lawyer made to signatures on petitions calling for a vote on his remaining in office.

Maybe it’s because she was a Girl Scout when she was growing up in Wisconsin, but community service just comes naturally to Dawn Euer. The Newport resident who firmly believes in equality for all people took a two-year position as deputy campaign director with Marriage Equality Rhode Island working behind the scenes to get the state to legalize same-sex marriage. That mission had a happy ending in August, when same-sex marriage was signed into law in the Ocean State. Euer has a law degree and was a founding board member of the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island.