Rhode Island News

While writing a story about Cody Wild that was in Sunday's Journal, I got to wondering how many Rhode Islanders had suited up for the Providence Bruins? After going over the names at hockeydb.com, to the best of my knowledge, Wild is both the 12th Rhode Islander and the 12th former Friar to wear the black and gold.

Rhode Island is one of 16 finalists in the $4-billion federal Race to the Top competition, designed to reward states that embrace radical school reforms.

A Rhode Island trial judge has been nominated for a seat on the state's highest court.

Rhode Island cannot afford the system that currently promises lifetime pension benefits to 19,733 retired public school teachers and state workers, according to a report released Sunday by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council that details soaring costs set to explode in the coming years.

In the first piece of significant regulatory reform to come out of Smith Hill in some time, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has proposed an initiative to reduce the amount of time and paperwork it takes to start a business in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a proposal to raise rates at the Department of Motor Vehicles as a way to deal with the statea s budget deficit.

The U.S. Department of Education named 16 finalists Thursday in the first round of its "Race to the Top" competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants.

Governor Carcieri Proclaims March 3, 2010 "Spread the Word to End the Word Day" in Rhode Island, to Banish the Word "Retard" from Everyday Vocabulary Governor Donald L. Carcieri has proclaimed March 3, 2010 Spread the Word to End the Word Day in Rhode Island, joining a national movement to eliminate the word "retard" - the "R-word" - from everyday ...

Rhode Island has joined 16 other states in a national effort to dramatically increase the number of young people who graduate from college, an economic and educational priority of the Obama administration.

Rhode Island voters are worried about the economy, the direction of their state and the capacity of their leaders to solve anything.

The U.S. Census Bureau is seeking several recruiting assistants in Rhode Island; preferably bilingual in English and at least one of the following languages: Arabic, Khmer , Italian, Laotian, Portuguese/Creole, Russian or Spanish.

As the U.S. government prepares to count all its residents, community leaders and census officials Saturday launched efforts to ensure that Rhode Island's Southeast Asian residents are fully counted during the 2010 Census.

Health officials are setting rules for three stores in Rhode Island that could sell marijuana to patients registered with the state.

Stephen Finneran was there. He tutored Kyle Coutu in chemistry "so he could graduate and join the Marines." Debbie Shook was there.

Suppose a federal health-care overhaul doesn't happen. Suppose President Obama's summit Thursday leads to naught.

After two episodes, " The Amazing Race " reality show on CBS still has its full complement of Rhode Islanders: four of them, two teams of two.

With Spring right around the corner, Co-host Ben Hague took a trip to the RI Garden Show at the Convention Center to ask Rhode Islanders what the first signs of Spring are for them.

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The Columbus Dispatch reports that a health-insurance co-operative founded by Tom Rose, a retired businessman from Marietta, Ohio, "hopes to give people who feel alone in the health-care market that power-in-numbers feeling.

For the frustrated folks who troop into the unemployment office in this fading industrial city every day to peruse the same paltry job offerings or tweak their resumes for the hundredth time, the trickle of positive economic data coming out of Washington is cold comfort.