The Agenda

by Ted Rao

In the wake of Providence City Councilman David Segal’s decision to run for retiring State Representative Paul Moura’s seat in the General Assembly, Ward One (encompassing Fox Point and a portion of the College Hill neighborhoods) produced two energetic and vibrant candidates for the office. Ted Rao interviewed both candidates, Ethan Ris and Seth Yurdin, for The Agenda. Yurdin won the primary. Space constraints forced us to print only excerpts in the paper; the full interviews can be found online at http://agendanation.net/20/yurdin and http://agendanation.net/20/ris.

by Ted Rao

Continued from http://agendanation.net/20/yurdin

Like Yurdin, this race marked Ethan Ris’s first run for elective office. A former president of the Brown Democrats, Ris, 23, teaches eleventh and twelfth grade at The Met School in Providence. His political experience includes serving as a U.S. Senate Page as a teenager as well as volunteering full-time on various political campaigns. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown with honors in the department of History. Ris entered the council race prior to David Segal’s decision to run for State Representative. He was endorsed by the Ward One Democratic Committee.

by Ted Rao

In the wake of Providence City Councilman David Segal’s decision to run for retiring State Representative Paul Moura’s seat in the General Assembly, Ward One (encompassing the Fox Point and a portion of the College Hill neighborhoods) has produced two energetic and vibrant candidates for the office. Both candidates were eager to share their opinions on the state of the city and neighborhood with The Agenda.

The Democratic Primary for this race took place on Tuesday, September 12, along with the other fourteen ward primary races for city council in Providence, in which all but one ward’s seat was contested by a total of over fifty candidates. Space constraints force us to print only excerpts in the paper, and to devote more space to the winner of the race; the full interviews are available exclusively online through agendanation.net.