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HEALTH KICK: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has focused much of his attention during his tenure in office on the state’s health care system. He says it remains a top priority for the final 18 months of his term. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

POWER SURGE: AG Neronha has asserted his authority in the name...

Peter F. Neronha is in the homestretch of his second – and final – term as Rhode Island’s attorney general, and his workload is...
THE WARMUP: A legislative study commission on climate change meets in December at the Statehouse, weeks before the full General Assembly convenes to start the 2025 legislative session. Testifying are Thomas Guthlein, left, R.I. Emergency Management Agency associate director; and Melinda Hopkins, the agency’s planning branch chief. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

FALLING SHORT: Projected $330M deficit has General Assembly prepping for belt-tightening

For Rhode Island legislators, what’s old is new again. After three years of surpluses, state budget officials are now projecting that the government is facing...

Another detour for bike path bridges in East Bay

A disagreement between the R.I. Department of Transportation and the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council over who can use two proposed bridges along the...
LINE IN THE SAND: Monica Teixeira de Sousa, a professor at the Roger Williams University School of Law, says the lawsuit against Rhode Island’s new shoreline access law has the potential to create a precedent that will either inspire similar challenges or have a chilling effect on other coastal property owners. 
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Ripple effect expected from legal challenge of shoreline law

It came as a surprise to few when, soon after shoreline access advocates celebrated the law’s passage in June, a group of coastal property...

Russolino, Flynn nominated to Coastal Resources Management Council

PROVIDENCE – Joseph Russolino and Kevin Flynn have been selected to serve on the undermanned Coastal Resources Management Council, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced...
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Five Questions With: Jonathan Stone

5Q: Jonathan Stone | Executive director, Save The Bay Inc. 1. You announced in September you will be retiring on June 30, 2023. What led to your...

Ballard’s Beach bar ordered to remove ‘unauthorized’ structures

NEW SHOREHAM – The problems continue for Ballard’s Beach Resort on Block Island.  This time the ire comes from the Coastal Resources Management Council. That...
OPEN PATH: Linda Perri, a longtime resident of the Washington Park neighborhood in Providence, stands at a narrow public access point on the Providence working waterfront that she and other residents fought to establish. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SHADES OF GREEN: Can Providence’s working waterfront be both livable and...

Owning a home near the water isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. At least not for Linda Perri, who lives a mile west...

Decision on wind farm delayed over fisheries compensation

PROVIDENCE (AP) – Rhode Island coastal regulators, at the request of Gov. Daniel J. McKee, are delaying a key decision on an offshore wind...
SOUND ADVICE: The Center for Women & Enterprise will provide legal advice and contract basics for entrepreneurs and startup business owners during a Jan. 15 workshop at its offices at 132 George M. Cohan Blvd. in Providence. / Courtesy CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE

Editor’s Choice: Legal considerations for new business owners

EDITOR’S CHOICE Legal considerations for new business owners THE CENTER FOR Women & Enterprise will host a workshop that will cover a range of legal...
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