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Insane: Rhode Island Politicians Angry Because ICE Arrests MS-13 Fentanyl Dealer
Hot Air
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July 16, 2025
You can't make this stuff up. ICE apprehended a known MS 13 gang member with a history of trafficking fentanyl, and Rhode Island politicians exploded in rage that they did so. The perp, Ivan Rene Mendoza-Meza, had benefited from the...
The 2025 Top State for Business – North Carolina Continues Its Dominant Run
Global Trade - Texas
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July 16, 2025
For the third time in four years, the Tar Heel State picks up the CNBC annual “America’s Top States for Business” crown. Read also: How Small Businesses Secure Global Trade Financing in 2025 North Carolina Texas Florida Virginia Ohio Michigan...
Study: New Hampshire below national average for 5-year business success
Manchester Ink Link - New Hampshire
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July 16, 2025
MANCHESTER, NH – New Hampshire is 38th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for five-year survival of businesses that opened in 2024, according to a new analysis. Less than half of New Hampshire businesses established in 2019 were still...
Rhode Island Democrat Smears ICE As ‘Nazi Gestapo Thugs’ for Arresting Illegal Alien
Townhall
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July 15, 2025
Enrique Sanchez, a Democratic state representative from Rhode Island, referred to ICE agents as "Nazi Gestapo thugs" after an ICE operation in Providence, which resulted in the arrest of an MS-13 gang member, according to Fox News. The Nazi...
No country for old business owners: Economic shifts create a growing challenge for America’s aging entrepreneurs.
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania
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Americans love small businesses. We dedicate a week each year to applauding them, and spend Small Business Saturday shopping locally. Yet hiding in plain sight is an enormous challenge facing small-business owners as they age: retiring with...
Boys & Girls Club of Providence partners with Webster Bank to launch Finance Lab
WJAR - Rhode Island
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Rhode Island's first-ever Finance Lab opened in Providence on Tuesday. The financial literacy program will be available at all eight Boys & Girls Clubs in the city. The goal is to teach kids and teens the skills they need...
Could the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun relocate to Rhode Island?
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Imagine if Caitlin Clark was scheduled to play at The AMP at least once a season. Heck, imagine if someday she signed with Rhode Island’s WNBA franchise. It would be like Messi playing for Rhode Island FC. Maybe bigger. The chances of bringing the...
VA provides 22.8% fewer home purchase loans in Rhode Island in Q1
Ocean State Today - Rhode Island
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July 14, 2025
Kimberly M. Jackson VA Chief of Staff | https://department.va.govKimberly M. Jackson VA Chief of Staff | https://department.va.gov There were 112 VA home purchases in Rhode Island in the first quarter of the VA's fiscal year 2025, totaling $57...
How many H-1B petitions were made by Rhode Island employers during 2024?
Ocean State Today - Rhode Island
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July 14, 2025
Caremark, LLC Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade 383 99.7% 0.3% Aetna Resources, LLC Retail Trade, Information, Finance and Insurance, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 313 99.7% 0.3% CVS Pharmacy,...
Webster Bank, Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence announce opening of R.I. Finance Lab...
Providence Business News - Rhode Island
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July 15, 2025
PROVIDENCE – Webster Bank and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence announced the opening of a new Webster Bank Finance Lab on Tuesday, making it the Stamford, Conn.-based bank’s first collaboration of its kind in Rhode Island. Created to bring...
Valvoline Instant Oil Change℠ supports cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Autochannel
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64 Valvoline Instant Oil Change℠ locations in New England are participating in "A Chance for Kids & Families®" program for the 12th consecutive year to raise money for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund BOSTON, July 14, 2025 -- Valvoline Instant Oil...
Two URI nursing professors to be inducted as Fellows in American Academy of Nursing
The University of Rhode Island
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July 16, 2025
Posted on July 16, 2025 Updated on July 16, 2025 Nearly 90 percent of tenured faculty members have been inducted as Fellows KINGSTON, R.I. — July 16, 2025 — Two University of Rhode Island College of Nursing professors have been selected to receive...
Stony Brook University study finds sharks stick around in Long Island waters longer than usual
WSHU Public Radio - Connecticut
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July 16, 2025
Sharks are sticking around in Long Island waters later in the season than usual. That’s according to a new study from Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. It found migratory east coast sharks leave their summer homes...
Rhode Island ranks 48th in total VA home loans during Q1
Ocean State Today - Rhode Island
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July 11, 2025
Kimberly M. Jackson VA Chief of Staff | https://department.va.govKimberly M. Jackson VA Chief of Staff | https://department.va.gov Rhode Island ranked 48th in the nation in VA home loans in the first quarter of 2025, with 264 loans issued,...
Filmmaker tells history of Slatersville in award-winning…
Newport Daily News - Rhode Island
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Filmmaker Christian de Rezendes' documentary "Slatersville: America's First Mill Village" explores the 250-year history of Slatersville, Rhode Island. The documentary, which has won three Emmy awards, examines the village's role in the Industrial...
Obituary: Edward D. “Ed” DiPrete, Former Rhode Island Governor (1934-2025)
Newport Buzz - Rhode Island
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July 11, 2025
July 8, 1934 — July 8, 2025 Former Rhode Island Governor Edward Daniel DiPrete, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and patriarch of the DiPrete family, died peacefully on July 8th at his home in Cranston, after celebrating...
Global warming could increase insured hurricane losses by 50%
The Royal Gazette
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July 16, 2025
Created: Jul 16, 2025 08:00 AM A water rescue boat moves in floodwaters after Hurricane Milton struck Clearwater, Florida, last year (Photograph by Mike Stewart/AP) Insured losses from US hurricanes could rise by nearly 50 per cent under a 2C...
Neil Steinberg resigning as chair of RI Life Science Hub. What comes next?
Providence Journal - Rhode Island
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PROVIDENCE – Neil Steinberg is stepping down as the chairman of the board of the Rhode Island Life Science Hub, a role he assumed in October 2023 after he retired from the Rhode Island Foundation five months prior. In a three-page resignation...
Rhode Island man arrested for making death threats against President Trump, senior federal officials
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island man arrested Wednesday for threatening to kill President Donald Trump and two senior federal officials was found hiding in a bathtub, federal authorities noted in their criminal complaint. Carl D. Montague “began...
Rhode Island man arrested for threatening to kill Trump, Bondi, Stephen Miller
NECN - Massachusetts
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A Rhode Island man has been arrested by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force for threatening to kill President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, authorities announced Wednesday....