R.I., Deepwater sign wind-farm agreement
PROVIDENCE – After three months of negotiations, the state has completed and signed a joint development agreement with Deepwater Wind to build an offshore...
Local aid, pensions key to Carcieri budget plan
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri tonight unveiled a mid-year state budget package that calls for a $153.89 million cut in local aid, assumes...
Five Questions With: Jeff Seemann
On Jan. 26, the University of Rhode Island will open its new $58-million Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences. Although a budget shortfall will...
High-tech lunar, archeology projects at Brown
PROVIDENCE – In two separate projects, scientists at Brown University are using innovative technologies to explore deep into the earth and far off in...
Tech Collective gets $16K to buy robotics kits
PROVIDENCE – Tech Collective has received a $16,200 grant from The Champlin Foundations to purchase kits that will enable local high schools, career centers...
R.I. agrees to develop low-carbon fuel rules
BOSTON – Rhode Island and 10 other Northeast states have agreed to develop a regional low-carbon fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from...
Changes coming to courts, government
It was a year of transitions in Rhode Island government, as a number of well-known faces left state service. Some did so of their...
Consultants attending to bottom lines of clients
Since the economy has plunged, David Kellogg, a banking and financing consultant operating as Kellogg Associates in Providence, hasn’t changed the way he markets...
State again begins year awash in budgetary <br> red ink, with deficit...
The state’s fiscal woes in 2008 changed some of the ways government looks and works as state leaders attempted to run a leaner operation,...
Iway takes shape; more changes to come
The right side, the right side, the right side.
That could have been the mantra for the Iway construction project during the final months...
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