All RIPTA Offices Will be Closed on Monday, December 26, 2022, & Monday, January 2, 2023 The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will operate all fixed-route bus service on a Sunday/Holiday schedule on Sunday, December 25, 2022, in observance of Christmas Day, and Sunday, January 1, 2023, in[Read More…]
Department of Labor and Training Announces 2023 Tax Rates For Unemployment Insurance & Temporary Disability Insurance The Department of Labor and Training (DLT) today announced the 2023 tax rates for the unemployment insurance (UI) and temporary disability insurance (TDI) programs. Effective January 1, 2023, unemployment insurance tax rates will move[Read More…]
From The Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council: The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) released their report “Municipal Services in Rhode Island: How Cities and Towns Spend Their Money” today. The fourth in a series on municipal finance, the report analyzes how municipalities allocate resources across non-education services, such as[Read More…]
Hearing Scheduled for December 20, 2022 in Foster The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will hold a public hearing on a proposed service change to Route 10x (North Scituate Park-n-Ride) on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 in Foster. RIPTA is proposing to extend the route to serve a new[Read More…]
Regent Craft, in conjunction with the Quonset Development Management Team held a joint celebration on Monday, December 5: Recognizing the 13,000th Quonset Hire, & the arrival of Regent Craft, a developer & manufacturer of electric seagliders. Governor McKee was joined by Senators Reed & Whitehouse, as well as a[Read More…]
Annual #ThinkPVD campaign encourages residents and visitors to support Providence’s small business community and creative economy this holiday season Mayor Jorge Elorza today announced the launch of the City’s eighth annual #ThinkPVD campaign. Ahead of Small Business Saturday on November 26, the #ThinkPVD campaign will be encouraging holiday[Read More…]
Pitch Challenge For High School Students Continues Partnership With Credit Unions Of Rhode Island & MillennialRI Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos today kicked off Rhode Island’s fourth Lieutenant Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, a business pitch competition aimed at high school students across the state. In addition to helping students learn about the process of[Read More…]
There was a real feeling of Sisterhood at Pawtucket City High Schools this week … Successful tradeswomen from across a variety of industries connected with High Schoolers from the 3 Pawtucket High Schools. What started as Career Advice quickly morphed into young women receiving life tips & mentoring from[Read More…]
As inflation drives increase in hunger, funding will replace donations to the Food Bank that Trinity Rep traditionally has collected from audiences during live performances of “A Christmas Carol” From The Rhode Island Foundation: The Rhode Island Foundation announced today that it will match every donation the public makes to[Read More…]
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will detour twenty-one bus routes in the downtown Providence area on Sunday, October 16, 2022, in order to accommodate the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. Routes 1, 3, 4, 17, 19, 21, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 50, 55, 78, and[Read More…]
Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III at Eighth Ukraine Defense Contact Group / Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin & General Mark Milley Press Conference Following Ukraine Defense Contact Group Meeting, Ramstein Air Base, Germany 
A Conversation: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken & The University of Chicago Institute of Politics Director David Axelrod 
The 2023 Human Rights Watch World Report 
Video/Transcript: Secretary of State Blinken, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, & US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel at Signing of a U.S.-Japan Space Cooperation Framework 
Video/Transcript: Defense Secretary Austin & Secretary of State Blinken Host US-Japan Security Consultative Committee 
Transcript Good morning, everyone. It’s great to see you all at our eighth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Together, we’re starting a new year with renewed resolve to support the brave defenders of Ukraine. And I know that this meeting will only strengthen our unity and our[Read More…]
A raucous, but determined group of medical professionals, harm reductionists, activists & a Rhode Island State Legislator gathered in Providence’s Kennedy Plaza to protest the behavior of a Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) Supervisor, as yet unidentified, who apparently takes the distribution of NARCAN (Generic Name: Naloxone) as[Read More…]
Transcript Good morning, everyone. It’s great to see you all at our eighth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Together, we’re starting a new year with renewed resolve to support the brave defenders of Ukraine. And I know that this meeting will only strengthen our unity and our[Read More…]
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