As part of ongoing efforts to develop a thriving knowledge district in Providence, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority released a proposal Monday to launch the "Core Connector" — a two-mile stretch of streetcar service that would run through the Jewelry District, downtown and the heart of ...
When the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter School officially opened its doors Sept. 19, it became the first charter school in the country to give aspiring nurses the chance to earn both a high school diploma and college credit.
State lawmakers learned Wednesday that, despite hours of discussion and deliberation by an 12-member pension advisory group, there is no clear-cut path to solving Rhode Island's failing pension system.
Over 60 protesters gathered to challenge Bank of America and rising home foreclosures in front of the bank's building in downtown Providence yesterday afternoon.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority authorized a reduction Tuesday in the frequency of bus service on 13 routes, according to an article in yesterday's Providence Journal.
Over a dozen police officers and four ambulances arrived at a University of Rhode Island fraternity party in South Kingston Thursday night when 500 people surrounded a fight that spread into the street.
The President's Staff Advisory Council, in partnership with the Brown Bookstore, is launching a pilot program to collect book donations to put 500 books in the new library at a Central Falls middle school, the Segue Institute for Learning.
Students tired of eating dinner at the Sharpe Refectory or in need a late-night snack are more likely than ever to find a food truck nearby to fill their stomachs. In addition to staples such as Mama Kim's, the campus now hosts a number of new trucks whose options are not limited to food. Mijos, which ...
Following many hours of heated public debate Monday night, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted unanimously to allow undocumented students in Rhode Island to pay in-state tuition to attend public colleges and universities. The change will go into effect for the 2012 fall semester. ...
Average SAT scores for public school seniors in Rhode Island — and across the country — dropped this year, but the lower scores are not a reflection of intelligence, experts are saying.
State-appointed Receiver Robert Flanders Jr. '71 fired Central Falls Police Chief Joseph Moran III Friday, along with a prosecution clerk for the police department and a deputy city clerk. The firings were part of a series of cost-cutting measures to help rescue the bankrupt city.
NABsys, a Providence biotechnology company with Brown connections whose research could be used to treat cancer, recently raised $10 million in venture capital. Located in the Jewelry District, the company sits in a biotechnology research and life sciences hub that political leaders say is key to the ...
Since filing for bankruptcy Aug. 1, Central Falls has been engaged in an arduous negotiation process as city employees fight to protect the benefits included in their current contracts.
Rhode Island House and Senate finance committees met yesterday for the second of three joint hearings on fixing the state's escalating pension problems. Sen. Daniel Daponte, D-East Providence and Pawtucket, and chair of the Senate committee on finance, announced that the General Assembly may hold more ...
The Senate Corporations Committee approved Gov. Lincoln Chafee's '75 P'14 nominations to the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission at its hearing yesterday, green-lighting the roster for a vote by the full Senate Thursday.
When the school bells rang for the Providence public schools in late August, about 1,800 students started the year in unfamiliar buildings. They are former pupils of the five city schools — Asa Messer Elementary School, Asa Messer Annex, West Broadway Elementary School, Edmund W. Flynn Elementary ...
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.
As one of 24 winners of IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge, Providence received a grant — in the form of the services a team of IBM experts valued at up to $400,000 — to redevelop the city's land-use management system in March. As the deadline for IBM's report to the mayor nears, the consultants ...
Rhode Island public employees and union leaders packed the State House Wednesday for a joint finance committee hearing on Rhode Island's chronically underfunded pension system.
President Obama swept into office in 2008 with significant support from college students, winning roughly 94 percent of the vote at Brown's on-campus polling center and 63 percent across the state. But with slightly more than a year to go before the 2012 presidential vote, Providence area college students ...
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