10/30/2004

Question 14 seeks $48 million for Quonset park
On Tuesday, the Quonset Davisville Port and Commerce Park will be on the bottom.

10/29/2004

URI asks biotech center support
Just imagine a 400-seat auditorium, high-end specialty laboratories for working on cures for deadly diseases, young biotechnology companies testing research in incubator space, and new classrooms spread out over a 150,000-square-foot complex at the University of Rhode Island.

10/28/2004

Question 12 seeks $46.5 million to relocate, renovate buildings
PROVIDENCE -- The vast John O. Pastore Center in Cranston, once Rhode Island's poor farm, now houses its prisons, state hospital and a wide variety of state agencies.

10/27/2004

Question seeks $3 million for preservation
The old bell tower in Burrillville was in trouble. Squirrels had chewed their way in and set up shop. After weathering a century of rain and snow, the tower in the 1897 schoolhouse was leaking.

10/26/2004

Question 10 seeks funds for training, rehabilitation facility
College athletics represent more than sports -- they can become the spirit of a state, according to Robert L. Carothers, president of the University of Rhode Island.

10/25/2004

Proposed undersea center would give URI an edge
PROVIDENCE -- Robert Ballard wants to build the undersea equivalent of the Houston Space Center at the Bay campus of the University of Rhode Island.

10/24/2004

Preserving Rhode Island's open space
An open-space referendum on Election Day has never failed in the state of Rhode Island.

10/23/2004

Question 7 seeks $10 million for water supply
On Nov. 2, one critical yet unsexy item on the ballot is Question 7, which would affect water supplies statewide.

10/22/2004

Preservationists urging renovation to save the armory
PROVIDENCE -- It is a mammoth building, an ocher-colored castle that rises over Cranston Street in Providence from a former military drill field turned city park.

10/21/2004

Question 5 seeks $50 million for dorms
Voters in Rhode Island will have a lot to contemplate when they cast their ballots this fall -- including whether they want to support $50 million worth of dormitory projects at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College.

10/20/2004

An investment in vocational education
For many years, vocational education was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren't considered college-prep material.

10/19/2004

Paving the way for transportation
The $66.52-million transportation bond -- Question 3 on the November ballot -- would pay for a variety of state transportation projects from bridges to buses.

10/18/2004

R.I. voters to decide if change is in the air
PROVIDENCE -- Picture Rhode Island's Constitution -- the framework of state government -- as a patient who has come to your office for a routine checkup.

10/17/2004

Support mounting for separation-of-powers bill
PROVIDENCE -- They hand out raises to nonunion state employees, govern how the state's largest landfill is run, decide whether to sell or lease state property and manage the state's public bus system.