Financial woes shutter Education Partnership
PROVIDENCE – The Education Partnership, a public-policy coalition established to help improve the quality of education in Rhode Island, has filed for receivership.
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Playing with life
Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School’s Department of Orthopedics Director of Research Trey Crisco shows his daughter, Cami Crisco, 9, one of
the newly...
Artist works with students on pollution awareness
When Warwick artist Holly Ewald went to a so-called “community” meeting a few months ago to learn more about the polluted Mashapaug Pond in...
Long hours are no burden when business is yours
A woman can be expected to put a tremendous amount of work into a business that she herself starts because it is a joy...
Tap employees for ideas to help reduce costs
You can’t open a newspaper or turn on the TV without being bombarded with reports on the dismal state of the economy. Record high...
Lynch new president of National<br> Association of Attorneys General
The National Association of Attorneys General named Rhode Island’s chief law enforcement official, Patrick C. Lynch, its new president at its annual summer meeting,...
We stand united, fall divided
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and...
No jail time in Narragansett smoke-shop case
PROVIDENCE – No jail time was ordered at the sentencing yesterday of the three Narragansett Indian Tribe members convicted on charges related to the...
R.I., Mass. and Conn., all among Top 10<br> in readiness for...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Massachusetts remains No. 1, Connecticut surges three spots to No. 7 and Rhode Island moves up one notch to No....
$6.89B House budget plan heads to Senate
PROVIDENCE – The House of Representatives last night unanimously approved a $6.89 billion budget for fiscal 2009 that calls deep cuts in education and...