Brown’s prescription: Will latest failed merger end the university’s bid for...
The dream, as Brown University leaders described it, included Providence’s Jewelry District filled with biotech companies spun off from discoveries made by an “integrated...
New nonstop flights have R.I. tourism leaders salivating
Iftikhar Ahmad sees dollar signs in the winding security lines and crowds clumped around conveyor belts of suitcases at Rhode Island T.F. Green International...
More candidates take virtual route
From YouTube announcements to Twitter fundraising, Rhode Island political candidates are embracing virtual campaigning with gusto as the 2022 election season gains momentum.
That doesn’t...
PREPPING FOR AN IMPACT: Parlange sees ‘crucial role’ for URI research...
(Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.)
Marc B. Parlange...
Structural challenges can make waterfront development difficult endeavor in R.I.
A proposed six-story, 52-room Riverview Hotel in Providence was abandoned after the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council denied a requested variance on a 0.28-acre...
Legislative proposal stirs up shoreline dispute
A special legislative commission recently reached a consensus on a potential solution to a decadeslong conflict over shoreline access in Rhode Island, but a...
MANSION MANIA: Newport ‘cottages’ set sales records in 2021, but what’s...
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Rhode Island in April 2020, John Hodnett worried about not only the health crisis but the effect...
Will higher interest rates cool the housing market?
What goes down, must come up.
That will apply to mortgage rates, which have begun to climb after hitting historic lows in 2021 and are...
HURTIN’ FOR HELP: PBN survey shows tight labor market among challenges...
Money can’t buy everything, including talented workers.
At least that’s what Rhode Island companies are learning as business activity rebounds, but finding people to fill...
Jury still out on effort to diversify R.I. judiciary
William J. Trezvant grew up surrounded by Black lawyers and judges, thanks to his dad’s leadership of the Newport chapter of the NAACP.
Those early...
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