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Little Rhody getting big on microbeer front
By Rachel Arndt | April 23The smallest state packs quite a punch when it comes to the smallest beers. Building on its craft-beer brewery and a handful of brewpubs, Rhode Island is gaining strength in the microbeer scene.
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No easy way to move UEL, Brown tells community
By Rachel Arndt | April 8Putting Brown's Urban Environmental Lab on a flatbed truck and driving it to a parking lot past the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center is only one of several options for the building that were discussed at an April 3 community meeting the University hosted to discuss its physical development. The UEL, ...
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State may take over dealers' game
By Rachel Arndt | March 19Like most people looking for marijuana, Bobby Ebert used to turn to a drug dealer. But unlike those who use the plant for recreation, Ebert relies on it for medication and needs a safe supply he can count on. And though he's registered with the state as a legal medical marijuana user, he still struggles ...
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U. continues Hope High calculator program
By Rachel Arndt | March 5It's been a little more than a year since Brown began the Algebra in Motion program to donate Texas Instruments calculators to Hope High School, but the project is still going strong as the University looks to evaluate its progress so far.
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In R.I., a new fight for same-sex rights
By Rachel Arndt | March 2When Susan Heroux was diagnosed with congestive heart failure last February, she and her partner, Stacey, had to worry about more than her health. The couple had to consider whether it would be worth it for Stacey to take time off work and risk losing her job if Susan's condition worsened.
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Chafee '75 endorses Obama
By Rachel Arndt | February 14Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75 endorsed presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Thursday morning.
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Cicilline '83 looks toward city's 'next bright horizon'
By Rachel Arndt | February 13Though the year ahead may be difficult for Providence residents, Mayor David Cicilline '83 is "optimistic," he said in his annual State of the City address Tuesday night.
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Scared of the dark? Schools look to GPS phones for comfort
By Rachel Arndt | February 5Northeast college students who get nervous walking home alone in the early hours of the morning may soon be able to find comfort in a phone call. Starting soon, campus police departments at some area schools will support the Campus Guardian Emergency Notification system, a GPS tracking system that would ...
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U. loses Pulitzer-winning playwright to Yale
By Rachel Arndt | January 23Brown's playwriting program is losing its long-standing director. Professor of Literary Arts Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, announced just before the start of the spring semester that she will move to Yale this summer.
