UMass poll: Majority of Bay State residents approve of a casino
NORTH DARTMOUTH – The Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth last week released the results of a poll and "behavioral survey"...
Veteran of R.I. nonprofits to direct Slater Mill
PAWTUCKET – Slater Mill today announced the hiring of Janice Kissinger, a resident of Lincoln’s Great Road Historic District, as its new executive director.“We...
Survey: 35% in R.I. visited Conn. casinos last year
DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Rhode Island residents made 1.7 million trips to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in the past 12 months, according to...
A piece of the tropics in R.I.
The new Roger Williams Park Botanical Center's conservatory, billed as the largest indoor public display garden in New England, is scheduled to open on...
Unions seeking a piece of Lincoln Park expansion
The $220 million expansion and renovation of Lincoln Park, which is intended to transform the downtrodden dog track into a regional gaming destination, is...
Hotel union forges new partnerships
In Rhode Island, only 25 percent of workers in the hotel industry are unionized. In Boston, it’s more like 50 percent. But things are...
Metro region gains bookings in ’06
The Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau says bookings for December 2006 were nearly twice as high as in 2005, bolstered by an increase...
Sage aims to reinvent hotel dining
Maggie Longo sees more than drywall and dust when she looks at the site where Temple Downtown Restaurant and Lounge is slated to open...
Tribe ‘weighing options’ after appeal’s rejection
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the Narragansett Indian Tribe’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that the tribe is subject to Rhode...
Doughnuts the old-fashioned way
There is no conveyer belt at Allie’s Donuts Inc.; the doughnuts are all made fresh by hand, the way Allie Briggs made them when...
