May 21, 2004:
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Focus Rhode Island airs on WRNI 3-4p.m. every Friday, Saturday 6-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 - 9 p.m. Audio of the entire show is archived on the web two hours after the end of Friday's broadcast. The archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format.
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Brain Drain
As the class of 2004 graduates from the areas colleges and universities we look at efforts in the state to convince more young adults to stay and work in Rhode Island. We talk with Carol Coletta and Joeseph Cortright, the authors of a new study about how to make the Providence metro area more attractive to young, educated adults. Dan Bowdoin, executive director of the Providence Foundation, also joins the discussion.

The study, called The Young and the Restless, was sponsored by The Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, the Providence Foundation, the City of Providence, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, Brown University, RISD, and Johnson and Wales University.

University of Rhode Island economist Dr. Len Lardaro discusses his view that high housing costs could worsen Rhode Island's brain drain problem.

Political Roundtable
Host Deborah Becker speaks with Maureen Moakley, chair of the political science department at the University of Rhode Island and Ian Donnis, news editor at the Providence Phoenix.

Censored in Newport
An art exhibit at the Newport Art Museum is raising questions about censorship. Umberto Crenca's "Frenetic Engineering: Censored/Uncensored" includes original complete works and digital reproductions of other works that have 'objectionable' parts pixilated out. A companion exhibit at the Blink Gallery in Newport is showing the works uncensored. We talk with Umberto Crenca and Newport Art Museum curator, Nancy Grinnell.
Bert Crenca's website: www.as220.org/crenca/

West Side Story
WRNI theater critic Bill Marx reviews the Trinity Repertory production of West Side Story.

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