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(03/18/13 6:00am)
“The problem of the present time is that the future is not what it used to be,” said Sonia Hirt, professor of urban planning at Virginia Tech, at a conference at the Watson Institute for International ...
(03/07/13 6:31am)
Local business owners, chamber of commerce representatives and a spokesperson from Woonsocket-based pharmaceutical company CVS spoke in favor of the lower corporate tax rate and against tax credit reductions ...
(02/28/13 7:15am)
Feb. 28, 1963
The Interfraternity Council fined the Brown chapter of Psi Upsilon $200 for serving alcohol to freshman pledges. The president of the IFC, James Seed ’63 P’02, told The Herald the fraternity ...
(02/28/13 6:59am)
Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Johnston, introduced legislation in the General Assembly that would place a $50 fee per semester on every out-of-state student attending Brown, the Rhode Island School ...
(02/27/13 6:28am)
Health care reform in Massachusetts in 2006 influenced both the success and politics of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, said Nancy Turnbull, senior lecturer in health ...
(02/25/13 5:20am)
Common Sense Action held Rhode Island’s first statewide convention about the national debt and potential solutions in Alumnae Hall Saturday. President Christina Paxson, economist Steven Rattner ’74 ...
(02/15/13 7:57am)
A group of about 200 Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students rallied on campus and marched to the State House in support of same-sex marriage yesterday.
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage ...
(02/14/13 8:01am)
Rhode Island public school students gathered yesterday to protest a new policy from the Rhode Island Department of Education that requires high school seniors to pass the New England Common Assessment ...
(02/11/13 6:04am)
Winter Storm Nemo blew through Rhode Island starting Friday morning and into Saturday, burying parts of the state in upwards of two feet of snow. The ‘blizzicane’ is the fifth worst winter storm New ...
(02/07/13 5:30pm)
State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence announced a bill at a press conference yesterday that would legalize marijuana for retail and consumption by adults 21 years and older and provide for taxing and ...
(02/07/13 7:24am)
Racial profiling
Two state legislators introduced a proposal in the General Assembly this week to reinstate a policy of collecting data from traffic stops to curtail instances of racial profiling.
The ...
(02/07/13 7:20am)
Two months after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., legislators, teachers and administrators have rekindled a debate on improving the safety of Rhode Island’s public schools.
State ...
(01/31/13 5:48am)
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’16 received generally positive reactions from academics and officials for his proposals to cut the corporate tax rate and tentatively cap tuition at the state’s ...
(01/31/13 5:43am)
A woman who was convicted of injuring two students in a hit-and-run in spring 2011 was sentenced to one year in a minimum-security prison followed by two years of house arrest.
Rhode Island resident ...
(01/31/13 5:38am)
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Jan. 28 allocating $50.5 billion of aid to facilitate reconstruction in states affected by Hurricane Sandy last October.
Three months later, the East Coast is still recovering ...
(01/24/13 7:00am)
Rhode Island’s population has been steadily decreasing since 2004, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sixteen of Rhode Island’s 32 cities and towns lost residents, according ...
(12/07/12 12:00am)
The number of citizens in need of food aid in November was the highest recorded in state history, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's "2012 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island" ...
(11/15/12 12:00am)
(10/26/12 12:00am)
For those that enjoy musical theater, shiver-worthy harmonies, a dazzling cast and upbeat dance numbers, Production Workshop's "Company" will be sure to delight. In contrast, anyone more philosophically-minded ...
(10/21/12 12:00am)
Midterm period is tough. Students spend hours in libraries and review sessions, cramming in last-minute facts. Sleep and fun slip from existence for weeks as students slave over papers and tests. Musical ...