Tag: Covid-19
EVICTION DILEMMA: Both tenants, small landlords vulnerable as crisis...
Ilanna Ball isn’t exactly a real estate tycoon – she owns two triple-deckers, a few other multifamily houses and manages another 45 rental properties...
Election planning hampered by COVID-19
Several Rhode Island communities have been struggling to find poll workers for upcoming elections because many experienced workers have “retired” over worries about the...
Act now to avert eviction crisis
State leaders must begin making hard, painful decisions in the coming weeks on state spending during a pandemic-induced recession, including where to direct millions...
Five Questions With Emily Oster
Emily Oster | Economics professor, Brown University
1. You recently launched a website with a medical professor at Harvard Medical School called COVID Explained. What...
Diver, R.I. firm create life-saving oxygen hood
Middletown-based diving contractor Michael Lombardi is used to solving challenges underwater, immersed in 500 feet of ocean water or a shallow sewer in places...
Just like grandma used to make
Schantel Maxine Neal grew up with a grandmother who baked using whole ingredients, and who created meals and desserts from scratch.
Her new business, Maxine...
Tiffany Peay Jewelry shines in Tiverton
The gemstones in fine jewelry are particular to the people who wear them. The stones have their own properties and appearance. For the past...
Tipped workers still feeling the pain
Even prior to COVID-19, tipped workers suffered from the inadequacies of the U.S. social safety net and minimum-wage standards.
The pandemic has exposed not only...
Library aiming to help build businesses
Providence Public Library was founded 145 years ago during a period that is now referred to as the Long Depression. Starting with the Panic...
Grim U.S. stats we can do something about
COVID-19 has plunged us into the Age of Impotence. A government that once upon a time spearheaded the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after...
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