Tag: Covid-19
R.I. COVID cases rise by 2,392 since Dec. 10, with 10...
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 2,392 from Dec. 10 through Sunday, including 539 cases identified on Sunday, with...
R.I. confirms first case of COVID omicron variant
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has its first confirmed case of the COVID-19 omicron variant, a Providence County resident in their 20s who recently returned...
Rhode Island urges COVID-19 boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island officials are encouraging both 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots as soon as possible, with Gov. Daniel...
U.S. consumer inflation up 6.8% in past year, most since 1982
WASHINGTON (AP) – Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and...
Should local colleges mandate that students and staff get COVID-19 booster...
Local colleges this past summer made it clear that nearly all students – and employees in some cases – needed to be vaccinated against...
ALL IN with Bally’s: But how risky is R.I.’s heavy reliance...
Rhode Island has come to rely heavily on Justin Kane and other recreational gamblers like him.
Kane, a Providence real estate investor, likes to blow...
Is R.I. vaccine ‘smart card’ needed?
Whether it’s called a vaccine passport or a vaccine smart card, the 401Health cellphone app, a COVID-19 vaccination verification tool, needs to remain optional,...
Blue Cross receives philanthropy award from Rhode Island Foundation
MICHELLE LEDERBERG is the executive vice president, chief legal officer and chief administrative officer at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, which...
R.I. leaders need to see the risk in dependence on gambling...
Nevada may be the nation’s gambling mecca, but it still trails runaway national leader Rhode Island in per capita revenue collected from gambling.
Yet, as...
Delivering food, parking cars with efficiency
Kenneth Zorabedian has always been a go-getter. As a child, he caught snakes and collected stray golf balls to sell to other kids in...
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