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02/22/2012 - 5:28am
Providence Eyewitness News
The Woonsocket School Department is considering issuing pink slips to all 700 district employees.
02/21/2012 - 5:51pm
Providence Eyewitness News
Rhode Island leaders say a new federal spending bill brings runway expansion closer to reality at T.F. Green Airport. And Warwick's mayor says a legal challenge standing in the way of the project may soon be lifted.
02/21/2012 - 9:40am
Providence Business News
The Rhode Island Builders Association has launched a new website: RIBAlist.com. The site provides access to the organization’s 1,000 members and also contains important information on how to hire and find a local contractor - consumers can search by business category and zip.
02/20/2012 - 7:14pm
The Providence Journal
The Central Falls school department, because it is financed by state money and run by a state-appointed board, is in effect a state agency and not part of city government or the city's bankruptcy proceeding, the school district's teachers union argued in a court filing.
02/20/2012 - 6:00pm
Turn to 10.com
The Woonsocket School Committee on Wednesday is expected to vote to inform all 700 school workers -- from teachers to janitors -- that they'll be laid off.
02/20/2012 - 10:26am
Boston.com
Rhonda Taylor had never been on unemployment until she was laid off from her information technology job in 2008. When she received the debit card she’d use to access her unemployment benefits from the state, she assumed it worked like any other bank card.
02/18/2012 - 9:41pm
Woonsocket Call
The school department's continuing budget problems will be back in the limelight this week when the school committee considers laying off all of the department's union employees for the coming school year.
02/18/2012 - 7:50pm
Valley Breeze
Mayor Don Grebien has announced the creation of a special panel that will focus on ways to address the city’s underfunded pension plans and attendant health benefits compensation for retired city workers.
02/17/2012 - 12:15am
GoLocalProv
As an undergrad at Brown University, I—like many of my student peers—have been incredibly disappointed by my school’s reluctance to make a more equitable and just commitment to the Providence community. I wanted to take this opportunity to send a message to the members of the Brown Corporation: we need to pay our fair share.
02/16/2012 - 7:23pm
South County Independent
The crew prepares and serves 5,000 meals a day at the University of Rhode Island’s Butterfield Dining Hall. It’s a physical job – all day on their feet, lifting and carrying, stocking and restocking, moving in and out of freezers and refrigerators, working over a stove.
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