Tag: Politics
With bus/train station coming, redevelopment focus for Pawtucket, Central Falls must...
More than a decade after it was first discussed, ground was broken for a commuter train and bus station in Pawtucket earlier this month,...
With the election now settled, do you think that Rhode Island...
A major issue in any election is the economic health of the city/state/country that is holding the vote, and nowhere was the issue debated...
Stocks rally as vote clouds clear with no surprise
NEW YORK – U.S. equities jumped, the dollar dropped and Treasuries climbed as investors moved past the hurdle of uncertainty presented by the midterm elections...
What’s wrong with the 2% inflation target?
In 1996, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had an exchange with Janet Yellen, then a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, that presaged...
Politically correct?
Do your employees engage in conversations about politics in the workplace?
Yes: 78.6%
No: 21.4%What do the conversations tend to focus on?
National politics: 42.9%
State/local politics: 35.7%
Employees...
Should the Hope Point Tower be built?
The Fane Organization appeared before Providence City Council to present a new version of its proposed $300 million residential skyscraper, Hope Point Tower. The...
PBN on WJAR-TV, Oct. 22, 2018
Will 2018 be the year Rhode Island voters take a stand on the condition of public schools?Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears...
R.I.’s independent streak could bring unexpected results
As symbols go, Rhode Island’s Independent Man doesn’t hold anything back.Looking out over the state from the top of the Statehouse rotunda, the Independent...
Whom do you believe, Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh?
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the challenge to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court drew more than 20 million...
Has your company added employees in the last three-and-a-half years?
Since Gov. Gina M. Raimondo took office in January 2015, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island has gone from 6.6 percent to 4 percent...
