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PRICY PAD: The listing for a 1,746-square-foot apartment in The Residences Providence on Apartments.com. Monthly rent: $6,800. Much like less-expensive housing in Rhode Island, luxury apartments are in short supply in the state. 
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In R.I., high-end apartments are in demand, too

Economy
As apartment rents continue to soar within Rhode Island, even those with luxury budgets are feeling the squeeze. Currently, the most expensive apartment in Rhode...

Hydropower project putting Blackstone River back to work

Focus
For years, an endless stream of Blackstone River waters has gushed over the Albion Dam, built more than a century ago to help power...
TEST RUN: Jorge Reyes of Providence displays pastries called pastelitos at the Culinary Hub of Providence – CHOP – a workforce training restaurant that’s due to open this spring in the Providence Public Library. Reyes is in the early stages of culinary ­training.
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Building restaurant in Providence library is far from by the book

Focus
These days, it’s not so silent in the Providence Public Library. And PPL isn’t unique in that regard – while libraries haven’t completely abandoned quiet...
SPREAD THIN: Robert Andreozzi, co-owner and chef of Pizza Marvin, prepares dough for a pizza at the restaurant on Wickenden Street in Providence. In December 2022, a rave review on social media from Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy spurred so many orders, it disrupted the business for a time.
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Local pizza joints feel the power of just ‘one bite’

Entrepreneurship
When Jeff Merlino, owner of Merlino’s Pizzeria in Cranston, heard that Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was returning to Rhode Island in January to...
AD CONFAB: DDL Advertising LLC owner Stacey Caputi Liakos, right, chats with digital media manager Zach Ferri, center, and Daniel Antunes, a digital marketing associate. Ferri says the use of cookies to track internet users has been evolving, and that change will continue as Google LLC phases out third-party cookies on its browser Chrome. 
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Marketers prep for Chrome’s cookie phaseout

Focus
Do you agree to this website’s cookie policy? Web users likely see a similar prompt daily, if not multiple times per day, as they browse...
OFFICE ADVOCATE: R.I. Public Defender Collin Geiselman says he’s asking legislators to add $600,000 more in the R.I. Office of the Public Defender’s fiscal 2025 budget to raise the wages of staff attorneys as a recruitment and retention tool.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Understaffed public defenders struggling to cover cases

Focus
R.I. Public Defender ­Collin Geiselman is accustomed to attorneys on his staff leaving to take higher-paying positions at private law firms, but now he’s...
MORE MONITORS? The city of Providence already has traffic cameras such as these at Chalkstone Avenue and Raymond Street keeping an eye out for motorists running red lights. Other cameras capture images of speeders. Now the Smiley administration wants the ability to enforce traffic noise automatically. 
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A sound idea? Providence considers noise cameras along roads

Focus
If given the green light, Rhode Island’s most populous – and maybe the loudest – municipality will be the first in the state to...
ANOTHER WORLD: Thomas ­Walters IV gives a virtual headset a try while his father, Thomas Walters III, looks on at the Youth Innovation STEAM Hub event launched by the nonprofit Winner’s Circle XR Academy Inc. in Providence on Jan. 20. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Why hasn’t VR become a key tool in classroom?

Education
One day, students will start a class by jumping into an avatar and strolling into a digital replica of their classroom. But we are...
MEAL TIME: ­Students at Nathanael Greene Middle School in Providence eat lunch in the school’s cafeteria. Providence Public School District schools have offered breakfast and lunch at no charge since 2019 under the federal Community Eligibility Provision. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Governor’s plan to offer more free school meals is not enough,...

Education
Food insecurity in Rhode Island in 2023 surged 30% year over year, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. And compared with 2019,...
CANCER FIGHT: Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, right, director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, is one of the doctors pushing to get a National Cancer Institute designation for the center and is seeking help from state leaders. 
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Funding, data sharing needed for R.I. to advance cancer innovations

Focus
When Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, one of the nation’s top physician-scientists and oncologists, came to Rhode Island in 2019, he was eager to help the...
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