With the state unemployment rate a 13 percent and expected to rise even higher when the latest figures are released next week, jobless Rhode Islanders will be in line for 20 weeks of unemployment benefits under legislation that won final passage in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday and is headed to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
ANALYSIS: City should be on guard now more than ever
on 11-04-2009 19:44
By RUSS OLIVO
WOONSOCKET — Decoding the behavior of voters is often a little like trying to read tea leaves, and the decisive victory they handed longtime City Council President Leo T. Fontaine is one of those occasions.
WOONSOCKET — The School Committee’s incumbent members will be joined by a political newcomer, Vimala D. Phongsavanh, when the new panel takes office in December.
WOONSOCKET — All six incumbents running for reelection to the City Council have retained their seats and one newcomer won a spot on the council in Tuesday's general election.
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Department of Health officials confirmed Tuesday that the 12-year-old Lincoln Middle School student who died Saturday night at Hasbro Children's Hospital did, in fact, have the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu.
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