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DMV Pawtucket HQ will close next week as main office moves...

PAWTUCKET – The R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles’ current headquarters at 100 Main Street will close Thursday, Aug. 19, the division announced last week....

Brown gets $15.5M grant from NSF to establish math-research institute

PROVIDENCE – Brown University has been awarded $15.5 million by the National Science Foundation to create a mathematics research institute that the university says...

R.I. marijuana training school – first in Northeast – is set...

PROVIDENCE – A medical-marijuana training center announced the September launch of a training class in Rhode Island, which it said is the first professional...

Trotsky named executive director of Massachusetts pension fund

BOSTON – The $41.3 billion Massachusetts pension appointed Michael Trotsky as executive director after the previous head said the public fund doesn’t adequately compensate...

EDC board to take more active role as <br>38 Studios deal...

When the time came for a decision on whether the state should guarantee a $75 million loan for 38 Studios, it is no coincidence...
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Memo to R.I.’s next governor: keep focus on energy efficiency investments

Rising energy prices – coupled with environmental and national security concerns – make investments in energy efficiency increasingly vital. Rhode Island has taken important...

Bristol Community College offering online course on green technology

FALL RIVER – Bristol Community College will offer an online introduction to green technologies this fall. Enrollment is now open, and students can take...

Fifth UMass Dartmouth professor earns Fulbright scholarship this year

DARTMOUTH – Maureen P. Hall, an associate professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement,...

Rhode Island to get $12.5M federal grant to improve low-achieving schools

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive a $12.5 million federal grant to improve low-achieving schools. The grant is part of $3.5 billion that will be...

Patrick makes Mass. 19th state to have sales-tax holiday, coming Aug....

BOSTON – Despite the possibility that doing so would generate a $20 million to $23 million revenue shortfall for the state, Mass. Gov. Deval...
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