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SCOOP: Jeff Bezos funded a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto based in Michigan, and I've got all the details. It's working on a low-cost EV pickup truck and has attracted investment from the owner of the LA Dodgers. The result of a year-long investigation. techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/i...

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The @helenabfoulkes.bsky.social campaign says it raised >$600,000 in the first quarter of the year. That's a healthy total more than a year out from the primary. Actual 1Q filing is due at the end of this month

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Keir Starmer is in attendance at the Emirates tonight. #ARSRMA | #AFC

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#coyg

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Used car prices had been falling. And then Trump announced fat car tariffs. CarGurus data shows almost every brand (with notable exception of Tesla) seeing higher prices on used cars in last 30 days: www.cargurus.com/research/pri...

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👣A bill focused on access to routine foot care is not something could have seen coming. But here we are and the need is great.👣

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'Hands Off!' protest against Trump and Musk draws crowd in downtown Providence www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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🇬🇱 Greenland's scheduled meeting with Concacaf in London today has been postponed. It's the second postponement after a meeting in Miami in February was also delayed. Greenland applied to Concacaf in May 2024 after UEFA's door closed to non-independent nations.

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Let's see how Rhode Island's top publicly-traded companies are doing this fine Friday shall we...... www.providencejournal.com/story/news/t...

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NEW: Another blow to RI's health care system Anchor Medical Associates (successor to the old Harvard Pilgrim clinics) informed their roughly 25,000 patients the practice will close on June 30 AG @peterfneronha.bsky.social calls the closure a "spectacular failure" and a wakeup call on primary care

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$165M in debt approved for sale of Roger Williams and Fatima hospitals. Will investors buy bonds backed by struggling hospitals? Turnaround plan relies in part on axing tax payments to PVD and NProv. Irate mayors told alternative is hospitals close www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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You never know what issues and industries are going to grab the political spotlight. This year podiatry is having a moment in RI www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Breaking News: The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University.

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Perspective: Brown says it got $254 million in federal research funding in FY2024 - so the amount Trump is reportedly going to pause would be equivalent to about two years of federal money for the school

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Most of Rhode Island's biggest companies are reluctant to talk publicly about the impact of tariffs. But this informative @wheelerreporter.bsky.social dispatch finds home builders bracing for shortages and price hikes www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

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It’s spring gardening season so here is my PSA that you can email the URI Master Gardener Hotline about all your gardening problems/questions/concerns and they’ll get back to you in a few days (if not sooner) and are super helpful! [email protected]

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How much of the old Washington Bridge is sitting on the bottom of the river? New underwater suggests a decent amount. No comment from McKee admin on whether that is a problem www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Political Scene: Is this the year RI takes the plunge on a public developer? Which issue seems to be uniting the political right and left in RI? Public housing. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Was a little surprised that Gov. McKee, who recently announced reelex campaign and made assault weapons ban big part of his agenda, did not testify in person on it this week www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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The end of the first quarter of 2025 approaches and Hasbro spox this afternoon says "no new updates to share" on HQ decision

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The lawn between the Prov Place Mall and train station emerges as latest potential site of a new @ripta.com bus hub, but prospects for including it in a mixed-use project dim www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Looks like the multi-year post-COVID rebound in @RIPTA_RI ridership may have stalled. Not a great sign as agency faces looming fiscal hole and new bus hub at train station is up for debate

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This @waveelection.bsky.social story is a great example of why it's so important to have reporters at govt hearings No press release will come out announcing a project doubled in price. It's buried in budget docs. A reporter being there is how most of us find out

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A sad day in RI

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CANADA TO THE US: FORWARD BOOKINGS COLLAPSE www.oag.com/blog/canada-...

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Price tag for replacement of troubled RI state hospital skyrockets up to $197M. Reason for increase unclear "I am just shocked, honestly, by an 80-plus-percent increase." www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Senate President Dominick Ruggerio is back in the State House and presiding for first time since early February

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Senate President Ruggerio will attend today's session after an extended absence while he was hospitalized for pneumonia, spox says - this will be his first time at session since Feb. 4

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Since 1991 RI's 10% affordable housing target has been the benchmark for measuring local affordability progress This year a bill in the speaker's housing package would effectively end the 10% rule And some cities are not thrilled with it www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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American Prospect's Blue State Power Rankings places RI last among Democratic trifecta states for achieving progressive policies. Analysis does not mention the governor at all, which seems a little weird prospect.org/politics/202...

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www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p... “I’m not a fan of anybody that protests anything,” Joseph R Paolino Jr says of Tesla protest

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If we mean what we say about housing being a human right, we need to make housing - both temporary and permanent - available in our communities. I'm disappointed to see this project hitting roadblocks, especially since Memorial has been empty for so long. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Pawtucket's Memorial Hospital saga takes another turn as City Council may block reopening state shelter there "Without [the shelter] this building will continue to sit empty and be used by squatters and vagrants like it is now." www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Chinese Automakers’ Answer to E.U. Tariffs: Build in Europe www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/b...

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53 of 75 Reps present at start of House session -pretty good for an NCAA tournament Thursday IIRC in 2016, last time tourney was in PVD, there was a quorum in The Dunk webserver.rilegislature.gov/HVotes/voter...

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Major League Soccer not involved, so while this is good, no where for @rhodeislandfc.bsky.social to go but down

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Real Madrid’s men’s team last played at the Bernabeu on 9 March, they play again at home on 29 March. They have a state of the art retractable pitch with greenhouse environment under it. Yet, the women’s team are playing on this shit surface. Give me strength.

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No Senate President Ruggerio at session once again today as he recovers from his hospital stay "Because today is a celebratory day with limited Senate business, the President is going to take another day to continue his recovery at home. His plan is to be in session on Thursday," spox says

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"[T]he department had twice posted the vacant locksmith position but received no qualified applicants." There's an interesting larger story here about the decline of institutional keyed locksmithing as a profession. There's a long term recruitment problem that's going to hit big institutions hard.

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Some different dynamics, but wonder about South Quay in East Providence

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