As part of our One Square Mile series on Pawtucket, The Public’s Radio is asking how the city will respond to recent blows, including the loss of the PawSox and Memorial Hospital. And we’re taking a look at opportunities for future development in the city. We’re joined by Jeanne Boyle, commerce director for Pawtucket, and […]
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One Square Mile Pawtucket: Inside A Working Textile Mill
In our One Square Mile series this week, we bring you a collection of audio postcards, snapshots of life in Pawtucket, our featured city. Today, we take you to inside one of the city’s remaining textile mills. Pawtucket’s claim to fame is Slater Mill, the first industrial mill in the US. The textile industry boomed […]
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One Square Mile Pawtucket: After-School At The Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket
In our One Square Mile series, we bring you a collection of audio postcards, snapshots of life in Pawtucket, our featured city. Today, we take you to the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket. When the school day ends for Pawtucket students, more than two hundred and fifty of them will get on a bus […]
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RI Judge Rules: Further Hearing Needed In Public Records Case
The Pawtucket Police Department is not required to release internal misconduct reports to a government watchdog group, pending further hearings, a Rhode Island judge ruled Monday.
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One Square Mile Pawtucket: Breakfast At The Modern Diner
The Modern Diner is a Pawtucket institution, and the first diner in the country to be made a national historic landmark. As part of our One Square Mile series on Pawtucket, Sofia Rudin takes us to the diner for breakfast.
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RI, MA Join Multi-State Lawsuit Over National Emergency Declaration
Massachusetts and Rhode Island are among the latest to join a multi-state lawsuit over President Trump’s use of an emergency declaration to fund a border wall.
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Child Care Costs Strain Families And Educators
Childcare providers in Rhode Island say families can’t afford rising costs, while educators are struggling to get by on low wages. Some argue the federal government should subsidize childcare.
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Brown University Team Plans Moon Rover Mission
Planetary scientists at Brown University are collaborating with a space exploration company to plan the scientific mission of a small-scale lunar rover.
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Group Asks RI Lawmakers To Consider Potential Impact Of Green New Deal
A fledgling environmental group wants Rhode Island lawmakers to consider the impacts of the so-called Green New Deal to the state.
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RI, MA Join Multi-State Lawsuit Over Title X Family Planning Funding
Rhode Island and Massachusetts are part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general who Tuesday filed suit to block changes by the Trump administration to Title X funding. That funding pays for prenatal care, contraception, and cancer screenings at 26 health centers in Rhode Island.