Retrofitting surgery centers could expand Rhode Island’s healthcare capacity, argues Cioe Lenny Cioe, a candidate for Senate District 4, has proposed a new plan to help...
“We need broad, sweeping plans to help our neighbors survive this event. Instead, the House Speaker and Senate President are on Spring Break...” Lenny Cioe, a...
“We need the state government to step in and protect the countless working Rhode Islanders who need relief now.” Progressive organizations across the state have joined...
“Now is not the time to eliminate legislative participation. Rather, Rhode Island will benefit with the inclusion of more voices and ideas as we navigate these...
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio expressed some reservations, calling the DEFB meeting “an imperfect way” to secure the needed line of credit. The Disaster Emergency Funding Board...
“People are dying. The economy is in freefall. If there ever was a moment when legislative leadership was needed, it is now…“ The COVID-19 crisis has...
“We have to stand together, stand strong, united, because this community cannot, under any conditions, accept anything like [this transfer station],” said Providence City Councilmember Pedro...
“Two-thirds of the benefit from a tax exemption for retirement income would flow to the richest 20 percent of Rhode Islanders,” writes Andy Boardman, “and a...
State elected legislative leaders answered questions about marijuana, the estate tax, the FY 2021 Budget, affordable housing, education, plastic bag bans, state preemption, corporate welfare, the...
“The original bill that we had forth, which I am a cosponsor of, would have created… predictability,” said Senator Gayle Goldin (Democrat, District 3, Providence). This...