Term-limited AG has full plate as he mulls gubernatorial run
Rhode Island’s activist attorney general, Peter F. Neronha, has lots of unfinished business as he hits the homestretch of his second and final term.
He’s...
Lawmakers ease medical debt burden
State leaders still have work to do to ease R.I.’s health care and housing crises but give lawmakers credit for eliminating one often-hidden financial...
Is there still a market for expanded marijuana sales?
Any adult in the area who wants to buy legal recreational marijuana doesn’t have to go far to find it. And that’s before Rhode...
Health insurers eye huge rate hikes
More fallout from Rhode Island’s simmering health care crisis: Prepare yourself for unusually high insurance rate increases next year.
Rate hikes proposed to the R.I....
Communities must be all-in on affordable housing
Since the onset of the pandemic, the state has committed more than $450 million to housing initiatives.
A low-income housing tax credit program was also...
Commerce needs thought leaders now
New leaders will be coming to the state’s primary economic-development arm – and the sooner the better.
R.I. Commerce Corp. has lost two top leaders...
Tariff war not helping manufacturers
Local manufacturers were hopeful during pandemic-fueled supply chain disruptions for an eventual return of manufacturing jobs that were shifted overseas in previous decades.
But that’s...
Train station sparks hope in city eyeing new direction
Positive economic changes don’t come easily in old mill cities, and Pawtucket has been no different. For every step forward, there’s often another backward....
Transparency key to public trust in transit hub choice
Why can’t state transit leaders stick with a single location for a new Providence transit hub? After 11 years and 10 potential locations, there...
Work with industry to fix primary care
Sixty-six percent of respondents to a recent PBN.com poll said state leaders were not responding to Rhode Island’s primary care crisis.
So, give Gov. Daniel...
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