The Blackstone River Valley — a national heritage corridor for 28 years — has been designated a national historical park after President Obama signed Sen. Jack Reed’s, D-R.I., bill proposing the change in December. No specific sites have been designated for the park, but the committee has pointed ...
A proposed sexual assault bill that would make it mandatory for universities to report sexual assault allegations involving their students or employees to law enforcement was introduced Jan. 7 to the General Assembly by Rep. Mia Ackerman, D-Cumberland and Lincoln. Sexual assault cases in which the victim ...
Only hours after the Providence City Council elected Councilman Luis Aponte as its president on Jan. 5, Mayor Jorge Elorza was inaugurated on the steps of City Hall. Each elected for a four-year term, these two men will work together to govern Providence on issues from the budget to education reform. Elorza ...
Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ, a food truck mainstay on Thayer Street, will no longer operate along its normal route in 2015, wrote CEO Don Fecher in an email to The Herald. The business, which was founded by Hyun Kim ’01 and his mother, may have some evening hours on weekends but its future in the area ...
In the first month of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s term, plans for statewide economic recovery have and will continue to dominate discussion in both chambers of the General Assembly and in the Office of the Governor. The new governor inherits a budget deficit of nearly $200 million and a structural deficit ...
Private sector leaders gathered with federal, state and municipal officials in a ceremony Monday to kick off renovations to the Jewelry District’s South Street Power Station, popularly known as the Dynamo House. The revamp — expected to be complete by the fall of 2016 — will result in a nursing ...
Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts ’78 was nominated as Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Governor-elect Gina Raimondo announced at a Dec. 7 press conference. The appointment is pending confirmation from the General Assembly in January. “The lieutenant governor’s ...
City activists and law enforcement officials are considering the steps needed to address local concerns over police officers relations with people of color in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. Protests responding to the national debate over police brutality and racism in the criminal ...
As RISE Mayoral Academy and Engineering Early College Academy prepare to open in fall 2015 as Rhode Island’s 26th and 27th charter schools, respectively, those involved in the state’s education policy continue to examine how the increase in nontraditional schools meshes with larger education plans. Rhode ...
Rhode Island’s Medicaid program decided in September to ration the delivery of Sovaldi, a prescription drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year to cure chronic Hepatitis C, due to the drug’s high cost and the relatively high prevalence of the virus among Medicaid enrollees ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island recently approved a plan to open the nation’s first museum devoted to examining the Episcopal Church’s historical role in slavery in northern states, including Rhode Island. The new museum would be built inside a renovated Cathedral of St. John, located on North ...
Mayor-elect Jorge Elorza sat on stage with crossed legs for just under two hours at the One Providence Listening Forum Monday at Nathan Bishop Middle School, taking note of Providence residents’ concerns on a range of topics including education, public safety, housing and transportation.
After almost five months of construction, the redesign of Kennedy Plaza is coming to a close. The $2.4 million renovation — funded by the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and city bond money — is estimated to be completed by the end of December, said Robert Azar, Providence director of current ...
A Rhode Island Department of Health study that found that 11 percent of high school students had BMIs above the 95th percentile, qualifying them as obese. 16 percent of high school students had BMIs between the 85th and 95th percentiles, putting them in the overweight category. The study’s results ...
HealthSource RI, the state health insurance exchange, opened its second enrollment period Nov. 15 to allow individuals and families not insured by their employers to renew their coverage. The enrollment period will last until Feb. 15, 2015 and includes options from United HealthCare, Blue Cross and ...
As evidenced by stacks of papers, file folders and empty spaces on walls that suggest recently removed wall decorations, Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 has been preparing for an imminent move out of his office in the Statehouse when his sole term as governor comes to an end this January. Chafee’s ...
Providence CityArts for Youth was honored Nov. 10 in Washington with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for being an outstanding after-school program for students who would not otherwise have access to quality art education. This year marked CityArts’ fourth attempt to secure the ...
The “huge explosion” of the American prison population is connected with the fact that 56 percent of federal offenders are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses, said Diego Arene-Morley ’16, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, during the community forum “Regulating Marijuana in ...
The number of out-of-state visitors to Rhode Island will double this year during what is typically the off-season period from Nov. 8 to Dec. 7, largely due to a mix of large conferences and leisure travel, Providence Business News reported last week. This month, off-peak conventions and large events ...
At an I-195 Redevelopment District meeting Monday night, the commission voted to approve a purchase sales agreement for a proposal to build a six-story suite-style apartment complex on parcel 28 of the LINK — land in the Jewelry District previously occupied by I-195. The apartment complex, proposed ...
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