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Mayor Elorza creates Municipal ID Program in Providence
[caption id="attachment_86" align="alignright" width="400"] Jorge Elorza[/caption] Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza has established a Municipal ID Program by executive order. Municipal IDs are identification cards that will allow all city r...
ACLU Statement on Court's Special Master appointment to oversee UHIP
Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU of Rhode Island, today issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge William Smith’s appointment of retired attorney Deming Sherman as a special master to oversee the resol...
CLF's Jerry Elmer: Invenergy has a disclosure problem
[caption id="attachment_59" align="alignright" width="400"] Jerry Elmer[/caption] "Invenergy has a disclosure problem," says Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer, and the company's recent filing with the Energy F...
Regunberg: Empower communities to own their own electrical utilities
[caption id="attachment_56" align="alignright" width="401"] Aaron Regunberg[/caption] Rhode Island State Representative Aaron Regunberg (Democrat, District 4, Providence) will be introducing legislation to empower local community ownersh...
Governor Raimondo's Millennial Town Hall
Governor Gina Raimondo held a town hall with Millennial Rhode Island (MRI) Wednesday evening, where the topics and question centered on jobs and the economy, housing prices and education. The event took place at the new WaterFire Arts Ce...
Raimondo orders review of National Grid's storm preparedness
[caption id="attachment_25" align="alignright" width="300"] Gina Raimondo[/caption] "Rhode Islanders should expect the lights to come on when the switch is flipped. National Grid owes Rhode Island families and businesses a swift response...
ACLU sues RI State Police for retaliating against Twin River worker
The ACLU of Rhode Island today sued the RI State Police (RISP) for abusing their power by retaliating against Marissa Lacoste, 25, a Warwick resident who declined to serve as an informant for the agency in an ongoing criminal investigati...
Invenergy's proposed RI power plant not qualified to enter electric market
[caption id="attachment_11" align="alignright" width="400"] John Niland[/caption] "Invenergy Thermal Development LLC and the Clear River Energy Center Project (“Invenergy”) has been informed by ISO New England (“ISO-NE”) that Clear River...
Judge William Smith expected to appoint special master to oversee UHIP disaster on Thursday
In response to the state’s unmitigated failure to comply with a court order issued in February designed to ensure the timely provision of food stamp assistance to needy families, U.S. District Judge William Smith today scheduled a public...
ProJo printed the facts about state rankings yet still peddles Tax Foundation propaganda
A Providence Journal editorial, published yesterday, once again took as gospel Rhode Island’s ranking in the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index. The editorial was happy that our state moved from #44 in the rankings to #41....