PROVIDENCE, RI — Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has announced that the Visitor Center’s Inaugural event will be held on Friday, March 21, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in the Governor’s State Room. «The Visitor Center has been open for several months, but this is the official celebration,» said Mollis. «I am proud to kick […]readmore
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PROVIDENCE- Following the release of the first part of her jobs plan yesterday, Gina Raimondo today continued her focus on manufacturing, touring Admiral Packaging in Providence. Gina’s plan to revitalize manufacturing in Rhode Island relies on a three-pronged approach to foster innovation, improve our workforce development efforts and better support our existing manufacturers. “We need […]readmore
Rhode Island – Brenda Dann Messier, director of the technical education program for adults of the Education Department of the United States visited Rhode Island to highlight the priorities of the Obama administration. Messier was the keynote speaker at the Annual Economic Summit for the Rhode Island Senate that was held in Providence.readmore
Rhode Island – Senators from Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts are among the 28 legislators who are prepared to speak on the Senate floor every Monday night and Tuesday morning to demand urgent action be taken in relation to climate change. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says «it’s time for Congress to wake up and […]readmore
Rhode Island – Brown University in Providence will begin celebrating their 250th anniversary that will last 15 months with fireworks, a giant cake in the shape of the first building where in 1765 the University started functioning at the time as Brown College of Rhode Island in Warren and it will be highlighted with a […]readmore
Rhode Island – Police have identified the man who was found dead on the beach in Charlestown on Saturday morning as Joseph W. Huston 53 of 65 Marietta Street in Providence. A person’s body was found partially submerged off a stuck vehicle which was found in the sand. The coroner determined the cause of death, […]readmore
Governor Chafee Responds Quickly to Consequences of New Farm Bill Requirements Providence, R.I. – In response to changes in federal law through the Farm Bill, which was recently signed by President Obama, Governor Lincoln D. Chafee announced today that Rhode Island would continue using a provision, commonly referred to as «heat and eat,» in the […]readmore
Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, announces that as a result of an ongoing effort to ensure the safety of the motoring public by removing impaired operators from our roadways, members of the Rhode Island State Police arrested five operators over the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE – HealthSource RI, the state’s health benefits exchange, will open a temporary satellite Contact Center at 250A Centerville Road in Warwick. The temporary location will open Monday, March 10, and will remain open until the end of April. HealthSource RI will open the satellite center to provide a convenient alternative walk-in location to Rhode […]readmore
Begins With Manufacturing and Workforce Development SMITHFIELD- Rhode Island is in a jobs crisis. At 9.2 percent, our state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, but that number does not fully capture how bad things really are. Between people who are under-employed and those who have stopped looking for work, our unemployment […]readmore