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During the pandemic, which saw Rhode Island lose $78 million in direct spending revenue from canceled events, Providence Warwick CVB President and CEO Kristen Adamo worked tirelessly with local media and government officials to promote tourism in the state’s primary group base. In 2022, she devoted that same energy to advocating for a Tourism Improvement District (TID).
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The National Institutes of Health is launching a four-year study of users of the two overdose prevention centers in New York and an upcoming one in Rhode Island. The evidence for these centers’ benefits is already strong, but this study can make it bulletproof.
“Our concern is that our resources and manning are stretched thin already and more calls could lead to having additional personnel working,” Warwick Mayor Frank Picozzi said.
A year after the state legislature imposed a ban on “large capacity” magazines requiring existing owners to destroy them, turn them over to police, or remove them from the state in order t...
A Q&A with Brown University Professor Wendy Schiller, one of the authors of a new book that details how the unequal enforcement of domestic violence laws is failing women in the US.