STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode … more

By JOHN HOWELL If members of the Rotary Club of Warwick hoped for a rosy picture of the state of the state, they didn't get it Thursday afternoon from House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi. Shekarchi put response to the pandemic and in particular more