Eileen Sheehan lives only about a couple hundred feet away from the Westport River. Through the windows in her living room, you can see light from the…
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Care New England Finances Improve Since Closure Of Memorial Hospital
Care New England officials on Thursday reported it would be operating in the black if it weren’t for the ongoing losses from the now-closed Memorial…
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URI Leads Effort To Reform Commercial Fisheries in the Philippines
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island are leading a new project in the Philippines to increase the number of fish in their waters.
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CharterCare Wants To Buy And Reopen Memorial Hospital
CharterCare, the local arm of a California-based for-profit hospital company, announced Wednesday it would like to purchase the now-closed Memorial…
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Union Files Labor Complaint Against Fatima Hospital For Witholding Inspection Documents
The union representing employees at Fatima Hospital in North Providence has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against hospital…
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This I Believe New England: Empathy
Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon. The poet Walt Whitman wrote, “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the…
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For Undocumented Workers On Vermont Farms, 2017 Was A Year Filled With Anxiety
An escalation in immigration enforcement over the past year has brought a new level of anxiety for the several thousand migrant farm workers living in…
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TGIF: 20 Things To Know About Rhode Island Politics & Media
Next week looms as a big table-setter for Rhody politics in 2018, with lots of storylines to follow. So thanks for stopping by. As usual your tips and…
