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McKee’s proposed pay raises for 11 cabinet directors criticized at public...

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee's proposed pay raises for 11 state cabinet directors were widely criticized during Wednesday's public hearing at the R.I....

R.I. film industry stabilizing after COVID-19 pandemic, annual tax credit reports...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's movie industry appears to have fully stabilized in the last few years since the COViD-19 pandemic, the state's annual film tax...

Report: R.I. experienced K-shaped recovery from pandemic in 2020

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island experienced a "K-shaped recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic as the retail trade sector thrived, while the services sector suffered. The retail...
COLLECTION OF the 1% hotel tax in Rhode Island totaled $261,010 in November. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MARY MACDONALD

1% hotel, meal and beverage tax collections fall 17% in Sept.

PROVIDENCE – Collections of the local 1% hotel, meal and beverage taxes declined a combined 17% year over year in September, to $2.8 million,...

Lining up for next windfall

In November 1998, Rhode Island was part of a historic settlement with the tobacco industry to pay for the health care costs of smoking...
SPORTS BETTING: Attorney Joseph Larisa, founder of Larisa Law in Providence, stands in front of the Superior Court building in Providence. Larisa is representing Dr. Daniel S. Harrop, a Providence psychiatrist who has filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court seeking to overturn state approval of sports betting unless it is approved by voters.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

For some, sports betting is not a panacea, it’s just illegal

Did Rhode Island voters approve sports betting when they agreed to allow table games at the state’s casinos? A lawsuit filed this month in state...
GOVERNMENTAL CASH COLLECTIONS in March totaled $279.2 million, an increase of 0.4% year over year. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ARTISTIC IMAGES

R.I. cash collections tick up in March

PROVIDENCE – Cash collections in Rhode Island in March totaled $279.2 million, a 0.4% increase year over year, according to the R.I. Department of...
RHODE ISLAND cash collections in January increased 1.9 percent year over year to $350.4 million. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ARTISTIC IMAGES

R.I. cash collections in Jan. up 1.9%

PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island cash collections totaled $350.4 million in January, an increase of 1.9 percent year over year from $343.9 million in January...

R.I. meal, beverage tax collections decline 3.9% in 2018

PROVIDENCE – Meal and beverage tax collections from Rhode Island restaurants declined 3.9 percent in 2018 to $14.6 million compared with the $15.2 million...
COLLECTION OF the 1 percent meal and beverage tax in Rhode Island in October totaled $2.4 million, an increase of $85,926 year over year. COURTESY HEMENWAY’S/LUCAS PRESTON

R.I. Oct. collection of 1% meal and bev. tax increases 3.7...

PROVIDENCE – Collection of the 1 percent meal and beverage tax in Rhode Island in October increased 3.7 percent from $2.3 million to $2.4...
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