Kelly L. Anderson
Feds may release $4.4M to Slater fund on audit
U.S. Treasury officials are satisfied the Slater Technology Fund did not spend federal funds recklessly and may be eligible to receive the bulk of...
One year in, still confusion on caregiver-leave law
Rhode Island broke ground in 2013 when lawmakers approved a Temporary Caregiver Insurance program with the most expansive employee-disability and family leave benefits in...
How hard is it to spend $230 million?
Since the R.I. State Police received $45 million in a multistate settlement with Internet search giant Google in the spring of 2012, the department...
Sims Metal at home on waterfront
Bill Huling, director of New England operations for Sims Metal Management, stepped back as another dump truck banged off the roll-on scales, reversed up...
Report supports dispatch service consolidation
Rhode Island boasts 39 cities and towns and 72 separate public-safety dispatches within its 1,200 square miles.
For some, the state’s intimate scale and...
Tax-stabilization deals needed to make eyesores useful
Forty-six years is a long time to complete a real estate development. But the transformation of the former Brown and Sharpe mill complex in...
Oppenheimer funds fighting tobacco bond refinancing
When American tobacco companies settled a landmark lawsuit over the harmful health effects of their products 16 years ago, many state and local governments...
Assembly leaders favor tax cuts for retirees
These could turn out to be golden years for Rhode Island retirees.
Fresh off passing an estate tax cut over the summer targeted to wealthy...
Make room calamari, crabs are moving in
Calamari may have company.
Another ocean-dwelling species, crab, has scuttled into a prominent position in the Rhode Island seafood scene, providing a welcome boost for...
Compassion centers eye expansion
When Rhode Island lawmakers voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2005, then nonprofit medical dispensaries four years later, it put the state among the...
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