“It is so coincidental that the coronavirus is aiding the opposition to this bill…” said House Labor Chair Anastasia Williams with some sarcasm. Highly paid lobbyists...
“Our state’s priorities are upside down when we give millionaires big tax breaks and don’t invest in residents living with developmental disabilities and the direct support...
“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...
“It would be much better to be on a path to $15,” said Alan Krinsky, the Senior Policy Analyst at the Economic Progress Institute. Rhode Island...
“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...
The Governor’s Task Force to Tackle Plastics held their first meeting on Friday to “develop a host of options to reduce plastic pollution in Rhode Island’s...
The Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture heard testimony Wednesday evening on the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), Senate Bill 2747, introduced by Senator Dawn Euer...
Rhode Island business leaders are feeling optimistic. Over 53 percent of Rhode Island’s business leaders think the United States economy will be in much better or...
Lobbyists for Internet Service Providers descended upon the Rhode Island House Committee on Corporations Tuesday evening to make the case that they fully support net neutrality...