Ray Nuñez

A little after 9 p.m. on Wednesday, inside Narragansett Brewery in Fox Point, more than 100 people who worked for or around Mayor Brett Smiley stood holding beers that had gone flat an hour earlier. City staff. A handful of…

Last November, during the federal shutdown that stopped food benefits cold, more than 102,000 Rhode Islanders turned to the charitable food network in a single month. That is the highest figure the Rhode Island Community Food Bank has ever recorded, higher than…