Some residents in East Providence thought they won a victory back in 2012, when the Department of Environmental Management shut down a recycling center…
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Richard Baccari Steps Down As Head Of Churchill And Banks Development Company
Richard Baccari, Sr. the head of development company Churchill and Banks, is stepping down after forty years with the company. Churchill and Banks rose…
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Arctic Blast Hitting Rhode Island
Rhode Islanders are in for another arctic blast starting Friday. Temperatures plunged into the single digits, and the National Weather Service says…
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Remembering The Station Nightclub Fire, More Than A Decade Later
12 years ago today, 100 people died, and hundreds more were injured in a fire at the Station nightclub in West Warwick. The fire made national headlines…
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Bonus Q&A: Whitehouse on DC Gridlock, Trade, Prison Reform & More
US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins Bonus Q+A to discuss partisan politics in Washington; how Rhode Island is being impacted by international trade; the…
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Political Roundtable: Whitehouse On The GOP Senate, ISIS, Infrastructure & Raimondo
US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins Political Roundtable this week to discuss whether Democrats can be effective in the GOP-controlled Senate; the…
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Pryor Unveils New Leadership Team at Commerce RI
Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor announced Thursday the installation of a new leadership team at the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, the quasi-public…
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Health Officials To Evaluate Impact of Meningitis Vaccine At PC
Health officials plan to evaluate the effectiveness of a new vaccine for bacterial meningitis given en masse to Providence College students. Researchers…
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New President Says RISD Can Play A Key Role In Economic Development
After an international search, the Rhode Island School of Design has settled on one of its own to take over as president. RISD has tapped Rosanne…
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Rhode Island’s Overall Homeless Figures Decline 8.5 Percent
Advocates working to end homelessness in Rhode Island release their annual report card Thursday looking at Rhode Island’s homeless population. For the…