Tag: Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce
House Labor bows to Senate, hears minimum wage bill with no path to $15
"It would be much better to be on a path to $15," said Alan Krinsky, the Senior Policy Analyst at the...
Senate Labor passes $1 increase in minimum wage, balks at pathway to $15
"The original bill that we had forth, which I am a cosponsor of, would have created... predictability," said Senator Gayle Goldin...
2019 Rhode Island Small Business Economic Summit
Unseen by most Rhode Islanders, the Rhode Island Small Business Economic Summit (Summit), an annual meeting between the business community and our...
Raimondo entertains Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce
Rhode Island Gina Raimondo spent a half hour or so speaking to and taking questions from members of the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of...
‘Trust us, nothing will change,’ say businesses who spent millions to overturn net neutrality
Lobbyists for Internet Service Providers descended upon the Rhode Island House Committee on Corporations Tuesday evening to make the case that they fully support...
Rhode Island’s annual battle for increasing the minimum wage stacked against workers
I was late getting to room 212 at the Rhode Island State House, where the Senate Committee on Labor, chaired by Senator Paul Fogarty...
Public testimony at the Special Legislative Committee to Study the Energy Facilities Siting Act
Greater weight should be given to public input. The size of the board should be greater than three members. Fossil fuel power plants should...
Raimondo breaks silence on CRMC and Jennifer Cervenka
Governor Gina Raimondo declined to answer any of my numerous inquiries about Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) Chair Jennifer Cervenka or National Grid's liquefaction...
The apparent conflict of interest between National Grid and CRMC Chair Jennifer Cervenka
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo appointed Jennifer Cervenka and two others to the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) sometime in July 2017. In appointing...
Community members label National Grid’s Port of Providence plans environmental racism at CRMC meeting
Accusations of environmental racism and white supremacy seemed to agitate the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and representatives of National Grid at...