URI’s state funding slashed 32% since ’07
PROVIDENCE – The amount of money the state spends to support the University of Rhode Island has dropped 32 percent over the last three...
East Bay Community Action given $1.6M
NEWPORT – East Bay Community Action Program has been awarded $1.57 million in federal stimulus money to adopt electronic medical records and upgrade its...
Mass. Senate bill would allow 3 casinos
BOSTON – Lawmakers in Massachusetts are expected to take another step Thursday toward allowing full-scale casinos in the state.
A bill set to be introduced...
R.I. has 6th-least government employees
PROVIDENCE – Contrary to popular belief, Rhode Island does not have all that many state and local government workers compared with other states, a...
Shooters, Rocky Point referendum urged
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PROVIDENCE – Proposed state referendums to purchase the former Rocky Point fairgrounds in Warwick and the old Shooters nightclub could be merged...
RISC wants R.I. lawmakers’ votes online
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Statewide Coalition is calling on the General Assembly to pass legislation that would allow lawmakers’ voting records to be...
Mass. rep calls on AG to probe Google
BOSTON – A state representative has called on Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate whether Google violated state laws over the past three...
Five Questions With: H. John Keimig
Five years ago, when Dr. David R. Gifford became Rhode Island’s director of health, his previous employer was little-known outside the world of elder...
Roberts launches reform task force
PROVIDENCE – Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts last week unveiled a new “Healthy R.I. Implementation Task Force” designed to ensure that the state “is...
Doctors see ‘deteriorating’ environment
WALTHAM, Mass. – Practicing medicine in Massachusetts keeps getting worse, with doctors particularly troubled by rising malpractice insurance rates, rising office costs, an aging...
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