December 1989 : RI Women in Government We ’ ve come a long way , baby ! Thankfully , since then we ’ ve had our first female governor in Gina Raimondo , with seventeen female legislators ( out of thirty-eight ) now serving in the Rhode Island Senate , and thirty-four ( of seventy-five ) in the House of Representatives .
April 1989 : We profiled some of the people behind the radio mics , including the beloved Salty Brine ( No school Foster-Glocester !), Buddy Cianci and Carolyn Fox .
September 1989 : Our first-ever “ The Best and Worst of Rhode Island .” Thankfully , we changed it to “ Best of Rhode Island ” in 1993 and never looked back .
December 1989 : We had the foresight to deem WaterFire creator Barnaby Evans a pacesetter to watch in the ’ 90s .
March 1989 : Iconic cartoonist Don Bousquet made many Rhodycentric cartoons for us back in the day . These driving tips still hold up , thirty-four years later .
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