In less than a decade, URI has cut spending by an astonishing 47 percent per student. Here’s how the Providence Journal put it: “State support for Rhode Island’s only public research institution has fallen so dramatically in the past decade that the mission and future of the University of Rhode Island are threatened, according to a national report that echoes the concerns URI’s leaders have voiced for years.”
It’s amazingly shortsighted that our elected leaders wouldn’t properly invest in its higher education students’ future. And make no mistake about it, more public funding for the University of Rhode Island is an investment that would pay huge dividends for the state.
The top 11 political families of Rhode Island.
The Barrington Town Council plans to vote on a proposed ban to plastic bags at its meeting tonight.
State sales taxes increase today on dog grooming and clothes that cost more than $250. People who purchase such goods and services can generally afford to pay the difference.
A North Kingstown resident has a sign in their yard that reads: “We Live Next to A Child RAPIST.” North Kingstown Patch has found no evidence that the accusation is true.
New York Times: The Party Politics of the Father-Daughter Dance
Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts: “we’d be a lot better off in this country if we had European gas prices.”
This website, and its previous editors, have long debated what is better for the state and the Capital City at the Port of Providence: a working waterfront or new mixed-use development there. What do you think?
Anyone who’s enjoyed a concert, fireworks, or just watching the water in India Point Park knows that Providence deserves to be connected to our waterfront. It was not so long ago that the area was a scrapyard…
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From the 1940’s until the 1960’s India Point was a scrap yard. “Piles of rusted scrap edged against the sky was the typical view most associated with the India Point in the 1950’s and 1960’s.” In the middle of the land plot stood the Cohen Junkyard. Old cars and pieces of scrap metal were brought to the junkyard. The metal was crushed by giant scissor-like machines, placed on ships and exported.
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Thanks to Mary Sharpe (who was recently honored by WRNI btw for her service to the community) and others the East Side now has a beautiful park instead. The south side deserves as much and can have it if we only choose to care.
“Imagine what it could be [referring to scrap area]. This with its sweeping view down the bay, is an area for living and recreation.Sweep it clean and start over… Along the waterfront would be a park and playground, planted with trees.”
– Mary Elizabeth Sharpe, “Providence Could Be A Beautiful City”, The Providence Journal, April 11, 1962, 25.