Ryan L. Fox
It was a special evening down at McCoy Stadium this past Monday night. Recovering from offseason cartilage restoration surgery in his left knee, Red Sox All-Star 2B Dustin Pedroia has been on the disabled list since March 29 of this year. Now after weeks of working out and extended spring, Pedroia began his road back to Boston by taking a quick pit stop for a MLB injury rehab assignment with the team. Against the visiting Buffalo Bisons, Pedroia played at his natural position of second base and batted 3rd in the lineup.
Gasoline prices in Rhode Island are up five cents this week, according to AAA Northeast.
AAA Northeast’s May 14 survey of prices in Rhode Island finds self-serve, regular unleaded averaging $2.90 per gallon. Rhode Island’s price is three cents above the national average of $2.87. A year ago at this time, the average price in Rhode Island was 59 cents lower at $2.31 per gallon, an increase of 25.5%.
Ryan L. Fox
Welcome PawSox fans to another edition of WBOB’s PawSox Notebook. After a week where the the Pawtucket Red Sox split between home and away games in a matter of a couple of days, the Pawtucket Red Sox got on the road for a long 7-game road trip in the Mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and New York for the week. However the team would hit a big snide along the way, turning this week into a week that they would like to forget.
More millennials age 24-36 live with their moms than at any time in the past decade, according to the latest Zillow analysis. Nearly a quarter of U.S. millennials are living at home with their mom, which translates to about 12 million young adults nationwide. In Providence, 26.2% of millennials still live at home, up nearly 9% from 2005.
Driven by increases in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, drug use by the American workforce remains at its highest rate in more than a decade, according to a new analysis released today by Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services.
Nationally, the positivity rate for the combined U.S. workforce held steady at 4.2 percent in 2017, the same as in 2016, but a dramatic increase over the 3.5 percent positivity rate from 2012, which represented a thirty-year low. The analysis of 2017 data also suggests shifting patterns of drug use, with cocaine and amphetamines positivity surging in some areas of the country and marijuana positivity rising sharply in states with newer recreational use statutes. Prescription opiate positivity rates declined dramatically on a national basis. |
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