PPS awards Jewelry District project
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Preservation Society gave its “Rehabilitation Award” to ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge for its redesign of the 30,000-square-foot Rolo Jewelry Building in...
Broadest R.I. jobless rate put at 21.5%
PROVIDENCE – More than one out of every five Rhode Islanders who wanted a full-time job did not have one this spring, according to...
Obama taps GSO’s Moran as adviser
KINGSTON – President Barack Obama has appointed Kate Moran, associate dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, to...
R.I. AFL-CIO’s Montanaro to retire
PROVIDENCE – Frank J. Montanaro plans to step down after 19 years as president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO union, WJAR-TV reported today.
A new...
Brown prof wins White House award
PROVIDENCE – The White House has named Rashid Zia, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, as one of this year’s winners of...
Feinstein Challenge raises record $197M
KINGSTON – Local philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein’s 12th annual nationwide matching challenge to anti-hunger organizations led to $197 million in donations this year, a...
MarcAurele named ‘Hometown Hero’
PROVIDENCE – Joseph J. MarcAurele, president of Citizens Bank Rhode Island, was recently awarded the Hometown Hero Award for leading a program in which...
Five Questions With: Joseph M. Giso
Joseph M. Giso is a certified public accountant with CBIZ Tofias, which has offices in Providence, Newport and New Bedford, and is the director...
New city budget boosts property taxes
PROVIDENCE – Saying the city faces “a financial emergency,” Mayor David N. Cicilline today released a revised budget for the fiscal year that began...
Mayoral academy funding a good step
We applaud the General Assembly’s decision to fund the first Rhode Island Mayoral Academy. The creation of Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley charter school in...
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