R.I. primary election results in; Cicilline, Taveras take Dem. nominations
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s primary election results tentatively confirm the victory of David N. Cicilline as the Democratic nominee to the first congressional district...
R.I. receives $146K to improve unemployment system
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island received a $145,560 grant to improve its unemployment insurance benefit payment system from the U.S. Department of Labor, the agency...
Immigrant children are high achievers in school say Brown researchers
PROVIDENCE – A new report by two Brown University professors is challenging the conventional view that the children of immigrants are more likely to...
R.I. receives $21.7M grant to augment local broadband network
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island has been awarded a $21.7 million grant to augment an affordable broadband network in Rhode Island and Massachusetts thanks to...
R.I. students score lower on 2010 SAT exams; second-lowest regionally
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island high school students taking the SAT exams last spring scored lower in reading, writing and math compared with 2009 results,...
Five Questions With: James Roosevelt Jr.
Tufts Health Plan had a tough first half of the year, with a reported net loss of $40.4 million on revenues of $1.3 billion...
Fraud settlement nets $173,600 for R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s Medicaid program will receive $361,708 as part of a settlement with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over allegations that the drugmaker engaged...
Liability costs pegged at 2.4% of health spending
Medical liability costs in the United States added up to $55.6 billion in 2008, including malpractice insurance, claims and legal fees, and doctors practicing...
Sunshine works for medicine as well as for government
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis urged sunshine for government: let the people see what their legislators are doing. Democracy will thrive when citizens...
For Providence mayor: Steven M. Costantino
The next mayor of Providence will confront a series of problems years in the making and no doubt, more years in the solving. To...