Tag: Covid-19
Raimondo outlines reopening metrics
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo on Friday said that four different metrics will be used to measure how the coronavirus pandemic is spreading...
Should Rhode Island colleges be allowed to make their own decisions...
A handful of local colleges recently announced evolving plans to reopen their campuses to students in the fall, with online learning still among the...
Hospital workers getting own brand of aid
Music performed by the group Healing Through Harmony, made up of students from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, plays softly in...
Five Questions With: Nellie Gorbea, R.I. secretary of state
5Q: Nellie M. Gorbea | R.I. secretary of state
1. You expressed concern with the effect of a delayed primary on the remainder of...
Eased funeral restriction a little comfort
After nearly two months of restrictions on the size of public gatherings, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has relented somewhat for one type of gathering:...
Pandemic disrupts IP filings, licensing
Innovation is at the heart of John Jarrell’s entrepreneurial success.
Over the last two decades, the Brown University graduate with degrees in engineering and medical...
Legal issues raised over returning to work
Pama Brown lost her catering job of 13 years at Brown University right before the coronavirus crisis, and she’s been in no rush to...
Closures of Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun sting rural eastern Conn.
NORWICH, Conn. – Unemployment in eastern Connecticut is soaring, despite relatively few cases of COVID-19 in the region, largely because the pandemic forced two...
State leaders must lead on budget
State leaders are never able to please everyone when making tough decisions on the state budget. But it’s an open question this year whether...
It’s up to us to make R.I.’s ‘new normal’ a better...
In these extraordinary times there is evidence of hope and generosity all around, just as there is uncertainty and urgent, extreme need. We are...


















