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	Driven to Drink Barrington has become a hotbed of underage drinking—and driving. Kids are dying, parents are turning on one another, and the experts are baffled. Is it too late to save this bucolic little town... By Gretchen Voss
	Don't Touch that Dial There’s telenovela drama in this radio saga. Rhode Island’s public radio station was the neglected stepchild of WBUR before being cast off without warning. When the Boston station got a new... By Gretchen Voss
	Bad Girls Doing time in the Rhode Island Training School is punishment for young women who break the law. What’s surprising is how many would rather be in the big house than out. By Beth Schwartzapfel
	Watching Your Waste Once, Rhode Island led the country in recycling. Now we trail the pack, and it could cost us more than just big money. By By Ellen Liberman
	Growing Pains Not enough cabs; no place to park; and street signs, where? As more visitors discover our piece of paradise, we can’t keep up with the deluge. By Ellen Liberman
	Hidden Treasures Settle into a pretty and private garden oasis and leave the noisy demands of city life behind. By Megan Fulweiler
	The Million Dollar Question Gone are the days when a million could snag you a mansion. Today, it’s officially considered the start of the luxury market in Rhode Island, where home prices can spike to a Beverly... By Lisa E. Harrison
	Deal... or No Deal? It’s a confusing, crazy real estate market out there. Whether you’re planning to buy a house, or itching to sell, here’s our expert advice on getting the most for your money. By Mary Grady
	Notes from the Hood In a tough South Providence neighborhood, young musicians learn more than mastering the fiddle. They discover classical music can rescue them from inner city life. By Lisa Palmer
	No Exit For six years, a Tiverton neighborhood has been paralyzed. Since toxic soil was unearthed, hundreds of residents are not allowed to dig on their properties, they’re unable to move and the cleanup... By Denise Dowling
	The Big Squeeze More than 1,600 houses are in foreclosure in Rhode Island, threatening to send our economy into a swoon. How is the state going to fix this mortgage mess? By Ellen Liberman
	The Rhode Island Red Awards The best dubious moments of 2007: the dumb criminals, clueless politicians and misbegotten animals who remind us why we love living in our fair state. By Sarah Francis
	Creative Accounting Sure, the state budget is a grown-up mess, but that’s no reason kids shouldn’t clean it up. By Ellen Liberman
	Mary, Mary Some have felt her wrath. Others call her kindhearted and fair. Even as she presides over some of the state’s most controversial cases, Judge Mary Lisi is a bundle of contradictions. By Elizabeth Abbott
	War and Peaceniks The Iraq war is as controversial as the Vietnam conflict, but this time antiwar demonstrators are a lonely bunch. By Ellen Liberman
	Game Face She’s a Jersey girl and a former PC basketball star. Now Doris Burke is calling the shots in the big league world of sports announcing. By Ged Carbone
	Ticket to Ride We see RIPTA buses every day, but how many of us have ridden on one? A curious car lover takes his first journey on public transit and discovers it’s a long, strange trip. By Chris Museler
	Safe House The police are supposed to warn you when a sex offender lives nearby. But does that information really make you safer? By Ellen Liberman
	Free Buddy After more than four years in prison, how has Buddy Cianci changed? The former Providence mayor reflects on his career and life behind bars. By Denise Dowling
	The Young and the Generous Meet the new generation of philanthropists. They’re young, they’re wealthy, and they don’t just write checks. They’re ready to roll up their sleeves, but — in return — they expect... By Lisa Prevost

Driven to Drink

Barrington has become a hotbed of underage drinking—and driving. Kids are dying, parents are turning on one another, and the experts are baffled. Is it too late to save this bucolic little town...

By Gretchen Voss

Don't Touch that Dial

There’s telenovela drama in this radio saga. Rhode Island’s public radio station was the neglected stepchild of WBUR before being cast off without warning. When the Boston station got a new...

By Gretchen Voss

Bad Girls

Doing time in the Rhode Island Training School is punishment for young women who break the law. What’s surprising is how many would rather be in the big house than out.

By Beth Schwartzapfel

Watching Your Waste

Once, Rhode Island led the country in recycling. Now we trail the pack, and it could cost us more than just big money.

By By Ellen Liberman

Growing Pains

Not enough cabs; no place to park; and street signs, where? As more visitors discover our piece of paradise, we can’t keep up with the deluge.

By Ellen Liberman

Hidden Treasures

Settle into a pretty and private garden oasis and leave the noisy demands of city life behind.

By Megan Fulweiler

The Million Dollar Question

Gone are the days when a million could snag you a mansion. Today, it’s officially considered the start of the luxury market in Rhode Island, where home prices can spike to a Beverly...

By Lisa E. Harrison

Deal... or No Deal?

It’s a confusing, crazy real estate market out there. Whether you’re planning to buy a house, or itching to sell, here’s our expert advice on getting the most for your money.

By Mary Grady

Notes from the Hood

In a tough South Providence neighborhood, young musicians learn more than mastering the fiddle. They discover classical music can rescue them from inner city life.

By Lisa Palmer

No Exit

For six years, a Tiverton neighborhood has been paralyzed. Since toxic soil was unearthed, hundreds of residents are not allowed to dig on their properties, they’re unable to move and the cleanup...

By Denise Dowling

The Big Squeeze

More than 1,600 houses are in foreclosure in Rhode Island, threatening to send our economy into a swoon. How is the state going to fix this mortgage mess?

By Ellen Liberman

The Rhode Island Red Awards

The best dubious moments of 2007: the dumb criminals, clueless politicians and misbegotten animals who remind us why we love living in our fair state.

By Sarah Francis

Creative Accounting

Sure, the state budget is a grown-up mess, but that’s no reason kids shouldn’t clean it up.

By Ellen Liberman

Mary, Mary

Some have felt her wrath. Others call her kindhearted and fair. Even as she presides over some of the state’s most controversial cases, Judge Mary Lisi is a bundle of contradictions.

By Elizabeth Abbott

War and Peaceniks

The Iraq war is as controversial as the Vietnam conflict, but this time antiwar demonstrators are a lonely bunch.

By Ellen Liberman

Game Face

She’s a Jersey girl and a former PC basketball star. Now Doris Burke is calling the shots in the big league world of sports announcing.

By Ged Carbone

Ticket to Ride

We see RIPTA buses every day, but how many of us have ridden on one? A curious car lover takes his first journey on public transit and discovers it’s a long, strange trip.

By Chris Museler

Safe House

The police are supposed to warn you when a sex offender lives nearby. But does that information really make you safer?

By Ellen Liberman

Free Buddy

After more than four years in prison, how has Buddy Cianci changed? The former Providence mayor reflects on his career and life behind bars.

By Denise Dowling

The Young and the Generous

Meet the new generation of philanthropists. They’re young, they’re wealthy, and they don’t just write checks. They’re ready to roll up their sleeves, but — in return — they expect...

By Lisa Prevost

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