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Cultivating community: Newport Pride founders open city’s first Pride Center
The couple behind the Newport Out tourism website opened the city’s first Pride Center this month, the latest effort they have championed in support of LGBTQ+ residents and visitors.
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Mass. ranks No. 1 in new report as the state with the best overall health care system
While preventable deaths rose during the pandemic, the state fared better than most others.
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Providence Mayor Brett Smiley hopes R.I.’s Philly trip scandal hasn’t tanked plans to redevelop armory
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R.I.-based Bally’s is involved in a Las Vegas baseball stadium mega-deal
Bally’s – which owns two casinos in Rhode Island – announced plans last month to partner with the A’s to build a new stadium on a portion of Bally’s Tropicana Las Vegas site.
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Ballard’s Beach Resort owner makes changes after last year’s Block Island Ferry brawls: ‘no excuses here’
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Providence Mayor Brett Smiley hopes R.I.’s Philly trip scandal hasn’t tanked plans to redevelop armory
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R.I. sues solar company for unfair, deceptive trade practices
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Bonnet Shores voting rights cabana drama keeps on rolling
The General Assembly declined to take up a proposal that would have kicked cabana owners and other non-residents off the voting rolls in the Narragansett enclave.
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Search teams racing to find the missing Titanic submersible have detected underwater noises but it won’t be easy to find the source of that sound in the ocean.
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Woonsocket man ran for Congress in 2002 in Texas and has written a book titled “Liar Liar Cruz on Fire.”
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Indictment isn’t deterring most GOP voters from Trump, N.H. poll shows
About 48 percent of Republican-aligned voters surveyed said the former president’s federal indictment made them more likely to vote for him, according to a new UNH poll.