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WHILE STATE REGULATORS have cleared the way for Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence to be sold, the mayors in both communities are insisting that they be protected from a loss of tax revenue in the deal. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Will Providence, North Providence lose tax dollars in wake of sale...

The sale of two cash-strapped Rhode Island medical centers is on track to be finalized in early 2025, but municipal leaders have raised concerns...

Employees at odds over sale of 2 R.I. hospitals during second...

PROVIDENCE – Disagreements among employees at Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital on The Centurion Foundation’s proposal to purchase the...

Diossa on tour to link residents, towns with unclaimed money

PROVIDENCE – In these inflationary times, every bit helps, and R.I. General Treasurer James A. Diossa is trying to help. What many Rhode Island residents...
THIRTY-ONE cities and towns in Rhode Island will be voting to decide whether to allow cannabis retail sales in their communities at licensed locations. Because of a limited number of available licenses, not every community that OKs sales will have a cannabis shop within their borders. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

31 communities facing the cannabis question: Allow sales or not?

The way the state law legalizing recreational cannabis is written, it’s easier for cities and towns to allow the sale of marijuana in their...

RIPTA’s not the only public agency feeling effects of labor shortage

Like many companies in the private sector, some state agencies and municipalities are struggling to fill positions amid a severe labor shortage. The R.I. Public...
A WORKER AT Mammoth Inc., one of the state’s licensed cannabis cultivators, tends to the marijuana plants at its Warwick location. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Discussions about marijuana sales now move to local level

Rhode Island may have legalized recreational marijuana, but now the debate will begin among local municipal officials about where that marijuana will be sold. While...
ERNIE ALMONTE has been named the new executive director of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns. / COURTESY ERNIE ALMONTE

Ex-state Auditor General Almonte named next R.I. League of Cities and...

PROVIDENCE – Ernie Almonte, who previously served for more than 15 years as the state’s auditor general, has been tapped as the new executive...
FOCAL POINT: Warwick Mayor Frank J. Picozzi stands on Conimicut Point with the Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse in the background. Picozzi wants to use some of the city’s federal COVID-19 relief funds to renovate the historic beacon.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Ready to spend: R.I. cities, towns have differing ideas about how...

The historic Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse at the mouth of the Providence River is far from being the shining beacon it once was, but Warwick...

Facing pressure from business community, municipal leaders eager to end emergency...

PROVIDENCE – One year after former Gov. Gina M. Raimondo declared a state of disaster emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic, some have grown weary...
5Q: Charles A. Lombardi
Mayor, North Providence   |   President, Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Charles A. Lombardi

1. What has been the biggest challenge for R.I. municipalities from COVID-19? None of Rhode Island’s federal CARES Act funding been allocated to...
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