Individual action can have global impact
Five years ago, Ray Rickman – a former staate legislator – was home sick. He heard a report about a doctor in Mali...
R.I. avoids decline in insured
Nationally, the news was bad: From 2005 to 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau said, the number of people without health insurance rose from 44.8...
South County, Westerly hospitals <br> consider joining forces
Top executives from South County and Westerly hospitals, both grappling with mounting financial difficulties, say they are considering the possibility of joining forces.
Talks between...
A helping hand to keep elders with their families
Linda Reynolds did not make the choice lightly. Her husband, Fred, had been struggling with Parkinson’s disease for several years, and she’d cared for...
Deadline looming for SBA help for mill fire
BOSTON – Businesses, nonprofits and residents whose property was damaged by the Bernat Mill Complex fire in Uxbridge have until Sept. 21 to submit...
Pawtucket celebrates its artists
To a large part of the public, the most memorable events of the three-week-long Pawtucket Arts Festival may be the kickoff concert at McCoy...
Colleges boost campus housing
Rhode Island College long has been known as a commuter college; after all, most of its 10,000 students are Rhode Islanders who drive to...
R.I. home inspectors may <br>need licenses as of Jan. 1
Paul Brunetti of Griggs & Browne has been inspecting homes in Rhode Island for 25 years. But starting next January, he may have to...
Show links independent jewelry makers, suppliers
With the jewelry manufacturing industry in Rhode Island made up increasingly of smaller, independent artisans – as opposed to the big machine shops that...
Amgen scores victory in anemia-drug patent suit
Amgen Inc., the world’s biggest biotechnology company, said a U.S. judge last week ruled that Roche Holding AG’s new anemia drug, Mircera, infringes an...
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