Tag: Brian Daniels
McKee prioritizes tax cuts, education in $13.8B budget for fiscal 2024
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Thursday released a $13.75 billion spending proposal for the next fiscal year, an increase of $148.6 million...
McKee scales back proposed cabinet salary increases
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Monday scaled back proposed pay hikes of up to 43% for his cabinet members, claiming a misunderstanding...
McKee proposes $12.8B budget that targets housing, COVID recovery
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Thursday released a $12.8 billion spending plan for next fiscal year that also seeks to commit over...
Cities, towns irked by lack of aid, withholding of revenue
As government coffers shrink, financial tensions between Rhode Island municipal and state leaders are growing.
The Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns recently criticized...
Providence giving troubled e-scooter, e-bike programs another go, but not everybody’s...
Seemingly overnight, rentable electric bikes and scooters began popping up on Providence streets last year. The Creative Capital was in the regional vanguard of...
Raimondo enacts continuing contracts and firefighter overtime bills
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo made two pieces of controversial legislation law Tuesday morning, one with her signature, the other without, the governor’s...
Is GA tipping scales toward labor?
Republican Rep. Brian C. Newberry thinks unions wield too much power in Rhode Island and worries the General Assembly, controlled by Democrats, will tip...
‘We’re not going to stop [legal pot]’
Amid the rolling fields and wooded hills outside Worcester, Mass., people park their cars in a dirt lot then take a shuttle bus to...
R.I. cities, towns oppose Raimondo’s marijuana proposal
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns says it opposes Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s proposal to legalize recreational marijuana because it...
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