It's hard to argue with the notion that teachers and students both need to show up to class in order for a quality educational environment to be established. With this in mind, it is consistently troubling to review numbers that emerge year to year more

You may have heard this one before. Stories deep within the Beacon Communications archives, some years old, discuss a measure that Rhode Island has bounced around for one legislative session after another. Former Cranston candidate for state more

It can be easy for an abstract concept - like time - to become lost on people. As we enter the third decade of the 2000s, this can become increasingly disorientating. How could it already be 20 years ago that we watched the ball drop on a new millennium? more

Locally, the new year began with a chilling story - one involving the murder of a Pawtucket woman with a weapon rarely encountered by law enforcement. Cheryl Smith, 54, was rushed to the hospital Jan. 1 after being shot multiple times at her home. Soon more

In a world of divisiveness, nothing can bring us together quite like national attention - the good kind, anyways. Warwick has seen enough negative national attention in the past year, with a school lunch debt issue that blew up into a mainstream fiasco more

The impending presidential election has drawn much of the attention, but the arrival of 2020 brings the countdown to another major national event - one with significant long-term implications for the Ocean State. In the weeks ahead, the U.S. Census more

It’s a disturbing trend that has become much too familiar over the past couple years, but you may never know that looking at the statistics.Just this past Saturday, a stabbing attack during a … more

Despite our highly provincial tendencies, Rhode Islanders know that no corner of our state is too far from any other - and that in many cases we can easily find common links with other residents, either through family members, friends or shared more

Despite our highly provincial tendencies, Rhode Islanders know that no corner of our state is too far from any other – and that in many cases we can easily find common links with other … more

Lovers of dramatic city politics will get a great early Christmas gift in Warwick this year. A special meeting has been called - utilizing a dusty provision within the city charter allowing a five-person City Council majority to call for one - which more

Only twice before in our nation's history has the U.S. House of Representatives impeached a president. Students of American history know that Andrew Johnson was the first to face a trial in the Senate, where he avoided removal from office by a single more

When news broke over two years ago that the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre would be relocating from its original home in the Pawtucket Armory to the former Ocean State Theatre on Jefferson Boulevard, there was plenty of reasons to be excited about the more