What’s happening in health care in Rhode Island, Feb. 7: ACA : A joint senate committee holds a hearing Tuesday night about the potential impacts of the…
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R.I. Unions Gained Representation of 6,000 new Workers in 2016
Organized labor has faced tough times in recent years as manufacturing has moved abroad, Republican governors and legislators have gone after public…
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Union Workers, Women & Infants Struggle To Avert Strike
Workers at Women and Infants Hospital have voted to authorize a potential strike. The union and the hospital are struggling to resolve a contract…
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The Pulse: In Recovery On A Secluded Island Off The Cape Cod Coast
About a dozen miles off the coast of Cape Cod sits a rustic island named Penikese — part of the Elizabeth island chain. A hundred years ago, Penikese…
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Your Weekly Briefing: Health In Rhode Island, Nov. 22
Here’s what’s happening in health in Rhode Island, Nov. 21: HOSPITAL LAYOFFS: United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP), a health care workers’…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Positive Beliefs
Some losses in life seem absolutely unbearable. The unanticipated end of an intimate relationship that’s at the center of our lives. The death of a…
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New Sobering Center Under Construction…At Last
A new sobering center opens next month at a homeless shelter in Providence. It’s a place where inebriated people who would typically be brought to the…
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The Pulse: Laughing Gas Makes A Comeback In Maternity Wards
South County Hospital may be the first in Rhode Island to bring back laughing gas for women in labor. It hasn’t been used in the U.S. for decades. We…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Children Teaching Parents
Those of us who are parents seem to assume that one of our principal tasks in life is teaching our children how to navigate this remarkably complicated…
