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Five Questions With: Molly Richard

Molly Richard | Assistant professor, University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences 1. Your research estimates that nearly 10,000 Rhode Islanders experienced doubled-up homelessness...

How to deal with big egos

After U.S. President Calvin Coolidge retired, a newspaper reporter went to see him at his home in Vermont. As they sat talking, the reporter...
Tim Cox

Cox designs new R.I. disability access license plate

TIM COX, a design professor at Johnson & Wales University, helped create Rhode Island’s new disability access license plate and a companion charitable plate...
Sebastian Fixson

How employers can make good decisions on remote work before next...

More than six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, over 1 in 5 of the U.S. workers who can work remotely do so either...
John W. ­Diamond

Consumers, businesses face future of more expensive borrowing

From mortgages to auto loans to credit cards, borrowing is set to get even pricier. But the Federal Reserve’s decision on Sept. 16 to hike...
K.L. Allen

It’s the start of academic year for tomorrow’s teachers, too

The fall isn’t just back-to-school season for children. Across Rhode Island and the country, thousands of adults have also started a new academic year....

Was the state right to start over with its application process...

Rhode Island in August unveiled a new application process for adult-use dispensary licenses, dropping a residency requirement that led to three lawsuits questioning its...

Five Questions With: Joshua McGinn

Joshua McGinn is the new director of professional development for the Rhode Island Association of Realtors. The Putnam, Conn., resident became director of professional...

Five Questions With: Dr. Judson A. Brewer

In August, Brown University received a three-year, $900,000 award from the Los Angeles-based Tiny Blue Dot Foundation to create a game that teaches people to...

Do you support the Federal Reserve’s first benchmark interest rate hike...

Amid rising prices for gas, food and housing, the Federal Reserve on Sept. 16 raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since...
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