SOUNDSCAPE: Noise Project Blog
Providence mayors and the executive-branch agencies they control are primarily responsible
for the municipal noise level, so we organize the blog posts below by mayoral administration.
Mayor Brett Smiley (2023–2027)
- We endorse Jay Gotra for governor (10/16/2026)
- Why noise is more than just a “quality of life” issue (9/21/2026)
- 2026 RI Primary Election Endorsements (9/7/2026)
- 2026 PVD City Council endorsements (9/4/2026)
- Noise Project Endorses David Morales for PVD Mayor (8/28/2026)
- 2026 Mayoral Candidate Survey Results (8/27/2026)
- Noise Project response to the PVD Eye article (8/21/2026)
- Federal Judge: EPA Can’t Ignore Noise Pollution (7/22/2026)
- Noise Project’s 2025 Ward 2 special-election candidate survey (11/3/2025)
- The Noise Project opposes “performative” leafblower laws (10/2/2025)
- “How Noise Affects Our Health” (WHYY podcast transcript) (8/8/2025)
- Noise Project: PVD sound meters are ‘deja vu all over again’ (10/6/2024)
- Noise Project 2024 RI General Assembly candidate survey results (9/9/2024)
- PNP letter to City Council leaders on License Board chair (4/12/2023)
- PVD City Council resolution on noise from Bold Point Park (3/29/2023)
- Letter to City Council president on License Board chair vote (1/30/2023)
Second term of Mayor Jorge Elorza (2018–2022)
- Noise Project 2022 mayoral and City Council election endorsements (9/12/2022)
- 2022 Noise Project letter to second-term Mayor Jorge Elorza (8/13/2022)
- Noise section of 2022 ‘quality of life’ plan* (7/22/2022)
- ‘Eliminating’ noise without reducing it: The Planning Dept’s Dike Street project (5/27/2022)
- ‘Hearing Too Much in a Noisy World’ (Wall Street Journal article) (9/20/2021)
- ‘The Sound of Near Silence’: Electric lawncare (article re-print) (7/23/2021)
- 2021 City Council Ward 15 special-election candidate Casi Inez’s platform (6/30/2021)
- 2021 City Council Ward 15 special-election candidate Doris De Los Santos on noise (6/3/2021)
- 1976 RI Assembly study on limiting noise from motor vehicles (11/1/2020)
- Noise complaints from 2020 West Elmwood / 02907 Health-Equity Zone report (10/14/2020)
- Frequently refuted deflection: “Cities are noisy” (7/30/2020)
- In the ‘olden days’, U.S. environmentalists were opposed to noise (7/9/2020)
- Boston Globe article: Noise report-cards for Boston neighborhoods (8/6/2019)