Brook Street may see new hotel
A proposal for a $35 million luxury hotel near campus was shot down in 2004 and 2008, but real estate developer Ed Bishop '54 P'86 P'91 thinks his latest bid for the hotel will fare differently.
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A proposal for a $35 million luxury hotel near campus was shot down in 2004 and 2008, but real estate developer Ed Bishop '54 P'86 P'91 thinks his latest bid for the hotel will fare differently.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 traveled to Pittsburgh Tuesday on a fact-finding mission to learn more about options for developing the Knowledge District in downtown Providence.
First lady Michelle Obama joined 13 wives of military servicemen Friday evening for a roundtable gathering at the Rhode Island National Guard headquarters in Cranston. Later that night, she appeared at ...
Like others who have moved onto an unfamiliar campus for the first time, David Dooley received a warm welcome to his new home from President Ruth Simmons.
Mayor Angel Taveras will seek $9 million in total contributions from tax-exempt organizations — like the University — and will support legislation in the General Assembly requiring such institutions ...
The state's political leaders call it a once-in-a-generation economic opportunity. Set to be completed at the end of 2012, the 10-year relocation of Route 195 has cleared 20 acres of prime real estate ...
The deadline for residents to file their taxes is today, but the state's Tea Party wants Rhode Islanders to know that the battle against the tax expansion proposed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 wages ...
Calling for sweeping cuts to close a two-year $180 million budget gap, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras called the city's finances a "category five" hurricane. But last Tuesday, that would have more aptly ...
Without his Providence public school education, Mayor Angel Taveras would not be where he is today, he told audience members at a forum to address pending school closings. But, he said, the city's fiscal ...
Sara Bohnsack MAT'11 leads a game of word jeopardy in a fifth-grade classroom at the Paul Cuffee School in Providence. "If I told you that you'd never have to do homework again, some of you might respond ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 proposed imposing new taxes on textbooks and taxi fares, while increasing funding for the state's public universities and slashing spending on government services, in ...
Colleges and universities in Providence may have to contribute more revenue to the city as part of a sweeping series of measures to address the city's two-year, $180 million budget deficit, Mayor Angel ...
The driver who struck and killed Avi Schaefer '13 nearly a year ago has not yet been tried for Schaefer's death.
Former Providence city solicitor, state attorney general candidate and dedicated Brown alum Joseph Fernandez '85 died Dec. 18 following a brief illness. Fernandez, who was 46, was a University trustee ...
Former Providence city solicitor, state attorney general candidate and dedicated Brown alum Joseph Fernandez '85 died Dec. 18 following a brief illness. Fernandez, who was 46, was a University trustee ...
Former Congressional staff adviser Amy Carroll started as the University's director of government relations and community affairs Dec. 1.
Candidates in Rhode Island this election cycle offered a common refrain — the state's pension system for public employees is broken.
Thursday should have been a good day for Steven Rattner '74 P'10 P'13.
Rhode Island Republican Party Chairman Giovanni Cicione said he will challenge Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in 2012, but only if no other high-profile GOP contenders decide to run. He named Warwick Mayor ...
Frustrated with a struggling economy and politics as usual, voters in the midterm elections last Tuesday handed Republicans major gains nationwide. But in a state where registered Democrats outnumber ...