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Focus Rhode Island airs on WRNI 3-4p.m. every Friday, Saturday 6-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 - 9 p.m. Audio of the entire show is archived on the web two hours after the end of Friday's broadcast. The archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format.
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Gay Marriage Debate
With same sex marriage about to become legal in Massachusetts we revisit the debate in Rhode Island. From Boston, reporter Fred Thys explains the legal issues for out of state couples who want to get married in Massachusetts. We discuss attempts to legislate for and against gay marriage in Rhode Island State with Representative Victor Moffitt (R- Coventry) and Kate Monteiro, head of the Rhode Island Alliance for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights.

Political Roundtable
Host Mark Degon speaks with Scott McKay, Providence Journal political writer and Maureen Moakley, chair of the political science department at the University of Rhode Island.

Montana Ranch Life
WRNI's Barbara Meagher talks with Providence photographer Jill Brody about her new book "Drummond-Ranch Life in the West".

Kid Simple
WRNI theater critic Bill Marx reviews Perishable Theater's production Kid Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh".

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