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PBN unveils 2025 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island
Providence Business News - Rhode Island
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June 23, 2025
PROVIDENCE – Twenty-seven organizations have been named as honorees in Providence Business News’ 2025 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program. All the honorees for this year’s annual program – which is now in its 14th year – will be...
Writer Herb Weiss’ 45 years of Advocacy on Aging now Archived at Rhode Island College Library Special Collection
RI News Today - Rhode Island
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June 23, 2025
by Herb Weiss, writer on aging issues, and Nancy Thomas, publisher The substantial body of work compiled by Herb Weiss—a 72-page list detailing 1,111 articles on aging, plus three books published over 45 years—now has a permanent home at Rhode...
How safe are Rhode Island’s other bridges?
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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June 22, 2025
The Washington Bridge may have grabbed most of the headlines, but it is by no means the only piece of Rhode Island infrastructure in urgent need of repair. Rhode Island PBS and The Public’s Radio identified 119 bridges listed as “Poor” in the most...
Procaccianti Companies Secures Final Approvals for The Bellevue Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island
Hospitality Net
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June 23, 2025
Procaccianti Companies, one of the nation's premier real estate investment and service firms, announced today it has obtained all required approvals to develop and construct The Bellevue Hotel, a 91-key luxury boutique property in the heart of...
In Rhode Island, women-led ventures are redefining adventure and innovation
What's Up Newp - Rhode Island
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June 21, 2025
Welcome to Part I of a 2-part Series featuring the voices and origin stories of a few Adventure and Experience Women Entrepreneurs who are making Rhode Island even more fun and exciting for both residents and visitors alike. Innovation, passion,...
Rhode Island FC Announces 2025 Postgame Firework Series
Rhode Island Monthly
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June 20, 2025
Photo courtesy of RIFC. As summer approaches, Rhode Island FC announced its 2025 postgame firework series, a set of three games that stretches from June into August. Rhode Island FC has entered its second season as defending Eastern Conference...
Full Rhode Island Senate passes amended assault weapons ban bill
East Bay RI - Rhode Island
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By Mike Rego PROVIDENCE — By a vote of 26-11 and after some two hours of debate Friday afternoon, June 20, the Rhode Island Senate passed an amended version of an assault weapons ban bill. The bill, 2025-S 0359 Sub. A, was sponsored in the upper...
Rhode Island Parent Information Network
Providence Business News - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
Best Places to Work 2025 Awards #15 MIDSIZE COMPANIES: Rhode Island Parent Information Network Local Employees: 113 Executive Director: Samuel Salganik Questions answered by: Emily Garthee, Chief Operating Officer What fun activities does your...
Dating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island Easier if You Work in These Careers
Fun 107 - Massachusetts
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June 20, 2025
In New England, there are certain qualities and professions that more dating app users swipe right on. It doesn't matter if you're dating in the Boston area or Providence, the Berkshires, driving a little further in spread-out Maine, or enjoying...
Rhode Island Senate to consider payday lending reform bill
WJAR - Rhode Island
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(WJAR) — Payday lending reform is up for consideration in the Rhode Island Senate Friday. A proposal would limit the amount of interest storefront payday lenders would be allowed to charge on loans. Currently, supporters of the bill say Rhode...
Average VA IRRRL loan amount in Rhode Island increases from Q3 to Q4
Ocean State Today - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
The average VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL) amount in Rhode Island during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024 was $423,620, according to figures provided by the Veterans Affairs Home Loans Index.The average VA IRRRL amount in...
Strategic Benefits Of Wa Airport Goldstar Air Will Unleash To Transform The Upper West Region Into An Agrarian City
News Ghana
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June 23, 2025
International airline Goldstar Air, a private Ghanaian and United States registered company with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority to operate passenger and cargo flights across West Africa...
How ‘The Gilded Age’ Shot in Newport’s Historic Mansions, and Brought a Tourism Boom to the Wealthy Rhode Island Enclave
Variety
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June 20, 2025
“Stand back, I’m about to act,” Ashlie Atkinson, who plays gossipy Mrs. Fish on HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” jokes as she prepares for another take of a luncheon scene that finds her giving side-eye to Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), the grande dame of the...
Despite DEI pushback, guides along Boston's Freedom Trail widen the lens of inclusion
WGBH - Massachusetts
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June 23, 2025
On a recent Saturday, two Freedom Trail Foundation guides, dressed in androgynous 18th-century garb, recounted the story of Jemima Wilkinson. She was a Rhode Island–born preacher who, after a grave illness in 1776, transitioned into a genderless...
Common Cause of Rhode Island’s John Marion on the General Assembly session, good government, and President Trump
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
The rise of Val Lawson as president of the Rhode Island Senate put questions of conflict of interest front and center at the Statehouse this year. That’s because Lawson also serves as president of one of the state’s largest teachers’ unions....
Rhode Island OKs $17 Minimum Wage, But Experts Warn of Lost Entry-Level Jobs
Newport Buzz - Rhode Island
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June 19, 2025
In a vote Wednesday, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage from $15 to $17 by Jan. 1, 2027. Under the bill, wage earners would see a $1 bump to $16 next year and then another to $17 the following...
Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee approves $14.3 billion budget
WLNE - Rhode Island
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June 19, 2025
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee has approved the state’s budget for fiscal year 2026. But there are some draw backs for some state agencies. The $14.3 billion spending plan includes money to protect Medicaid and...
Amgen Rhode Island
Providence Business News - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
Best Places to Work 2025 Awards #1 ENTERPRISE COMPANIES: Amgen Rhode Island Local Employees: 860 Rhode Island Vice President of Site Operations: Brian Britson Questions answered by: Brian Britson What three words best describe your staff?...
Are Rhode Island insurers doing enough to help curb rising health care costs?
Providence Business News - Rhode Island
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June 20, 2025
Hospital and drug costs accounted for most of the 7.8% rise in health care spending in the state in 2023, according to a May report from the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner. Spending rose across all major insurance markets. In the...
Rhode Island House approves $13.9 billion budget with new real estate taxes
Straight Arrow News
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June 18, 2025
Rhode Island could add a “Taylor Swift Tax” to charge semi-vacant mansion owners thousands more. State lawmakers are working on a budget that includes two significant changes to real estate taxes. The state House of Representatives approved the...