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RI Delegation heads to SOTU address

WPRI.com

Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012

By Ted Nesi, WPRI.com Reporter

WASHINGTON (WPRI) – In keeping with tradition, all four Democrats in Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have invited a local guest to attend President Obama’s State of the Union speech this evening.

Congressman Jim Langevin selected Erin Flynn, a RIC graduate herself, who is the New England Institute of Technology’s manager of admissions outreach and events. “Erin is working hard to close the skills gap in our state, which has been an obstacle to our local and national economic recovery,” Langevin said.

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Inside 38 Studios with Curt Schilling

turnto10.com

By Gene Valicenti, NBC 10

Published February 21, 2012

PROVIDENCE –

Following a fight he won for state backing for his new video game company, Red Sox star Curt Schilling is up and running in Providence.

Schilling’s out with his first new game, and he showed his 38 Studios for the first time to NBC 10.

The company takes up six floors of the old Blue Cross building and has room to expand.

“We’re filling it. We’ve been hiring since the day we got in here,” Schilling said.

The company has hired 280 workers, just a fraction of what the place can hold, and the building’s older than most of the staff.

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1 in 5 Providence workers employed by tax-exempts like Brown

WPRI.com

Eyewitness News

February 9, 2012 at 6:00 am by Ted Nesi

Is Providence biting the hands that feed its residents?

Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and his aides certainly don’t see it that way. But the seven tax-exempt institutions they’re targeting for a bigger contribution to Providence’s budget employ one in five workers there, making each of them one of its main employers, city documents show.

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Design incubator space eyed for Knowledge District

From the Nov 21, 2011 edition

INNOVATION

Design incubator space eyed for Knowledge District

By Denise Perreault
PBN Staff Writer

A pair of Rhode Island School of Design graduates recently completed an accelerator/incubator facility on Providence’s West Side for design professionals, a potential prototype for a similar development in the city’s nascent Knowledge District. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeds planted for economic rebirth

November 30, 2011

Seeds planted for economic rebirth

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a three-part series exploring the past, present and future of the Jewelry District in Providence.More »

Forum showcases city innovators in life sciences

From the Oct 24, 2011 edition

LIFE SCIENCES

By Kimberley Donoghue
PBN Web Editor

The room was packed with “rock stars,” though few outside their industries would know them. But to Stephen Lane, CEO and co-founder of Providence-based Ximedica, the speakers’ prominence in the life sciences was a sign of things to come in the city’s developing Knowledge District. Read the rest of this entry »

Providence firm raises $10M in venture capital

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A biotechnology company based in the fledgling Knowledge District in downtown Providence has raised $10 million in new venture capital funding.

NABsys (NAB’-sis) Inc. said on Wednesday that the funding will be used for everything from hiring new employees to purchasing new equipment.

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Chafee looks to success of Pittsburgh to revitalize R.I.

PITTSBURGH –– In this city where the steel industry and manufacturing once dominated the economy, the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel building towers over a revitalized downtown and offers sweeping views of rivers, new construction and both the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Heinz Field and the Pirates’ PNC Park.

But the operation inside the building is what lured Governor Chafee and his invited guests –– Rhode Island politicians, education and hospital executives, and business and labor leaders –– who hoped to learn lessons from Pittsburgh about how they might transform the Ocean State’s faltering economy.

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R.I. attorney general backs access to records

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Michael P. McKinney

BRISTOL — It was a meeting focused on such topics as open meetings in Rhode Island — then some protesters tried to open it up some more.

For more than 330 attendees, a mix of state and municipal officials, law enforcers, lawyers and others, Friday’s Open-Government Summit hosted by state Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin at the waterside Roger Williams University was about delving into when a record is public versus confidential, open versus closed meetings and conflicts of interest.
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Will R.I. leaders act on Knowledge District before it’s too late?

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, June 26, 2011
By John Kostrzewa
Providence Journal Staff Writer

MILTON, Mass. — From the Eliot Tower at the summit of the Great Blue Hill here, hikers can look north and see the skyscrapers in downtown Boston.
Or they can turn south and see the green hills rolling into Rhode Island and still further the outline of the old Hospital Trust building in downtown Providence.
There are many reasons why the two economies are moving on different tracks
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