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NEARLY 23% OF THE $103.8 million in contracts and purchase orders the city of Providence awarded in fiscal year 2020 went to certified women and minority businesses. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CHRIS BERGENHEIM

City, state have differing outcomes on minority contracting goal

Government 10/29/2021

While the state continues to fall short of its requirements for contracting with minority and women-owned businesses, the city of Providence has, for the...

A VOICE: Bella Robinson, executive director of Coyote RI, is an advocate for the decriminalization of sex work in Rhode Island. She’s at her home in West Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

R.I. highlighted in ACLU report on decriminalizing prostitution

Focus 11/13/2020

For almost 30 years, prostitution wasn’t a crime in Rhode Island, as long as it took place indoors. What was the result? According to one...

Providence lawmakers call for $15 minimum wage for city workers

Government 03/08/2019

PROVIDENCE – Lawmakers have introduced a bill that would add a provision to the state’s minimum-wage law requiring city employees to be paid a...

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