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(12/01/09 12:00am)
The University of California system is moving ahead with a proposed 32 percent tuition hike despite a series of student protests. UC President Mark Yudof said the system — which serves 190,000 students ...
(11/11/09 12:00am)
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe sat down with The Herald Tuesday before a welcome event to discuss his motivations for joining Brown's Africana studies faculty, his past work and his thoughts on ...
(11/05/08 12:00am)
Just as polls closed in battleground states last night, a somber crowd of more than 80 supporters of John McCain and local Republican candidates gathered at Ruth's Chris Steak House in downtown Providence ...
(10/14/08 12:00am)
M. Charles Bakst '66 has accepted the end graciously and gratefully.
(10/09/08 12:00am)
As expected, the economic downturn is affecting the state's revenue. Rhode Island tax receipts dropped about 17 percent for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 - from $882 million last year to $735 ...
(09/30/08 12:00am)
A locked door, a dark, almost bare interior and a large sign reading "Space for Lease" in red letters. Today, that's all that greets visitors and customers to what was once Wickenden Street's popular ...
(09/30/08 12:00am)
WARWICK - A key solution to Rhode Island's economic struggles is increasing awareness of and investing in more "green" jobs for the state's residents, according to a panel of local experts who gathered ...
(09/23/08 12:00am)
Under the specters of public transit budget shortfalls, fare increases and fewer routes, Providence Students for a Democratic Society stormed into a monthly board meeting of the Rhode Island Public Transit ...
(09/18/08 12:00am)
The Thayer Street District Management Authority - which seeks to improve and maintain the street - approved its $89,288 budget for the present fiscal year Wednesday morning, in a public hearing that failed ...
(09/16/08 12:00am)
A study by the state Department of Environmental Management released Monday has shown the presence of the West Nile Virus in mosquito samples collected in Providence and Pawtucket last month.
(09/11/08 12:00am)
At about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Lt. John Ryan heard a car's tires screech loudly as he drove past in his unmarked police car down Hope Street.
(04/22/08 12:00am)
When it comes to Thayer Street politics, it isn't often that the University, business owners and College Hill residents agree publicly. But one issue has riled up East Side neighbors, businesses and Brunonians ...
(04/09/08 12:00am)
A month after unidentified attackers threw two Molotov cocktails at his off-campus apartment, Yossi Knafo said he feels safe but finds it "weird" to be the "center of the mess that happened."
(04/08/08 12:00am)
Few houses in Providence today can boast having a room in which George Washington slept soon after the British evacuation from Boston in 1776. But one of them is the Governor Stephen Hopkins House, the ...
(04/07/08 12:00am)
Book lovers crowded inside the doors and sat in the aisles of MacMillan 117 Friday night as best-selling author Jhumpa Lahiri read from her latest short story collection and emphasized that, as a fiction ...
(04/04/08 12:00am)
Taking pride in Latino heritage and appreciating and uniting with other ethnicities can take the country's Latin American community forward, poet, journalist and community activist Felipe Luciano told ...
(04/03/08 12:00am)
According to his Facebook profile, his interests are the "arts, going to the gym, photography, horseback riding, riding my Harley, cycling." His favorite music: Andrea Bocelli, Bruce Springstein (sic), ...
(03/18/08 12:00am)
Two days after improvised firebombs were thrown at the off-campus house of Brown/RISD Hillel employee Yossi Knafo, the University is enhancing security and preparing an open forum to discuss what the ...
(03/11/08 12:00am)
The Providence Public Library has served the city for over a century, but rising costs and the library's deficit may force the institution to cut services and staff. It is considering closing some of ...
(03/05/08 12:00am)
Despite the dreary weather, 555 voters from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Providence community cast their votes in Salomon Center's foyer on Tuesday.