NEW YORK - New York has overtaken Miami to be voted the U.S. city with the angriest and most aggressive drivers, according to a survey on road rage released on Tuesday.
Miami topped the annual poll for the last four years but voters in 25 major metropolitan areas gave New Yorkers the prize for angriest, most [...]

If the United States were divided into states the size of Rhode Island, we’d have 3,874 states.

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We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

- Buddha

WASHINGTON - The economy’s sharp downhill slide eased in the late spring and hopes for future business activity improved, suggesting that the worst of the recession has passed.
A Federal Reserve snapshot of economic conditions issued Wednesday found that five of the Fed’s 12 regions said the “downward trend is showing signs of moderating.”
In addition, “several” [...]

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — The House on Tuesday waded deeper into the rescue of the troubled auto industry when it passed a $4 billion plan to subsidize new cars sales for consumers who scrap old ones.
By a vote of 298-119, the House approved the “cash for clunkers” program.
The measure would give consumers vouchers worth as much [...]

Did you know that during World War II German prisoners of war were kept in Rhode Island?
Where you ask?
Jamestown.

The Beginnings of Labor Day in Rhode Island
by D. Scott Molloy/courtesy: Quahog.org
The following article originally appeared in Old Rhode Island magazine, September 1993, under the title “100th Anniversary of the Labor Movement in Rhode Island.” It is reprinted here with permission of the author.

Justice, the Central Labor Union’s weekly newspaper, kicked off its inaugural issue [...]