Rhode Island Monthly - Rhode Island Monthly May 2010
RI Scene
Providence Preservation Society; Ed Achorn debuts new book; The Savory Grape Wine Festival; JW Graham reopens.
Site Staff
Reporter
We’re the only state in the country with no school funding formula. A new push to establish one must tackle an almost impossible question: how to make it fair?
Ellen Liberman
La Masseria
Our state’s got no shortage of red sauce restaurants. But can the newest, La Masseria, bank on its New York roots to make a mark in East Greenwich?
Karen Deutsch
Out Takes
Big Brothers’ Women of the Year Award Dinner; Light of Life Foundation fundraiser.
Samantha Turner
Health Check
The first annual “Knowledge is Power: Raising Awareness for Thyroid Cancer” event brought in $28,000 for research of the disease.
Site Staff
All in the Family
The Big Brothers of RI paid homage to the women behind the organization with its inaugural Women of the Year Award Dinner which raised $15,000.
Samantha Turner
Cease Fire
Strong-arming. Spitting. Federal boycotts. Incendiary radio ads. The Providence firefighters’ union and Mayor Cicilline were locked in a bitter brawl over a decade-old contract dispute. The fighting has finally ended, but will this epic showdown — one of the longest labor disputes in state history — bring other local unions to their knees?
Denise Dowling
Knowledge District
Five scientists whose cutting-edge research is giving the historic jewelry district a new name.
Mark Arsenault