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Tourism needs R.I.’s full attention

Coronavirus 10/09/2020

The tourism sector is far too crucial to Rhode Island’s economy for it to get only partial attention from the state’s economic-development agency. But that’s...

R.I.’s top tourism job in limbo

Coronavirus 10/09/2020

Almost five months after the state’s top tourism official resigned, R.I. Commerce Corp.’s promotional efforts “haven’t skipped a beat,” according to the agency’s interim...

PAPER PACKET: Ashley Breault helps her daughter Maria do her kindergarten work. Breault had to pick up the homework at her daughter’s school, Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Central Falls, after her daughter’s teacher had to go on medical leave and was replaced by a long-term substitute teacher. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Shortage of substitute teachers plagues some schools

Coronavirus 10/09/2020

Ashley Breault wasn’t sure what was happening those first few days of school in September. For a week, her 5-year-old daughter Maria didn’t have a...

’TIS THE SEASON: Holiday knick-knacks are displayed at a Macy’s department store on Oct. 1 in Denver. Stores are trying to attract earlier holiday shoppers as a way to reduce crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic. / AP PHOTO/DAVID ZALUBOWSKI

Retailers start holiday season earlier than ever

Coronavirus 10/09/2020

NEW YORK – Add last-minute holiday shopping to the list of time-honored traditions being upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Retailers are kicking off the...

HANDS-ON LEARNING: Kathryn Barr is a former teacher and school administrator who created the Eastside Learning Pod in Providence for elementary school students who are being home-schooled or attending school entirely by distance learning, with a focus on group and experiential activities. Barr helps Sydney Kingman, 7, with her work. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

More parents are taking note of home-school option

Coronavirus 10/09/2020

Andrea Knoll’s daughter Adalyn was supposed to start kindergarten at Henry Barnard School this school year. Even after COVID-19 hit, Knoll and her husband held...

GIVE HIM SPACE: Student Logan Armstrong works while sitting inside a painted circle on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on the first day of fall classes in late August. The circles were intended to remind students to maintain their social distance. / THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH VIA AP FILE/JOSHUA A. BICKEL

Amid outbreaks, colleges fight to salvage semester

Coronavirus 10/02/2020

MADISON, Wis. – Colleges across the country are struggling to salvage the fall semester amid skyrocketing coronavirus cases, entire dorm complexes and frat houses...

Gregory W. Bowman / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Gregory W. Bowman

5Q 10/02/2020

Gregory W. Bowman | Dean, Roger Williams University School of Law 1. What is the mission of the law school and how may that...

BIRD IN THE HAND? ONE Neighborhood Builders has proposed a mixed-use project in the I-195 Redevelopment District that would include apartments and a child care center. / COURTESY I-195 REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION

I-195 commission must follow the market on district build-out

Editorial and Op-Ed 10/02/2020

If you build more housing and retail amenities in the I-195 Redevelopment District, will the employers come? Before COVID-19, it was increasingly a question being...