A tourist goes to see something. A traveler sees it along the way.
At precisely one second after midnight, on March 1, Woonsocket would experience its monthly financial windfall — nearly $2 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Federal money would be electronically transferred to the broke residents of a nearly bankrupt town, where it would flow first into grocery stores and then on to food companies, employees and banks, beginning the monthly cycle that has helped Woonsocket survive.
There has to be a better answer.
Wisconsin, Illinois, Rhode Island, and New Jersey all share the genus Viola (the violet) as the state flower.
The Vaughan Building, Providence
Governor Chafee signs same-sex marriage in Rhode Island into law Thursday on the steps of the State House.
Although it is the smallest state in terms of land mass, Rhode Island has the longest official name (The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) of any U.S. state.