Tag: Louis P. DiPalma
Will proposal to use Newport airport property for housing ever take...
Fed up with the pace of housing development on Aquidneck Island, some Middletown residents are pushing for the closure of Newport State Airport with...
Legislation would regulate data centers in R.I.
Changing attitudes toward data centers used by tech companies to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing are coming into focus at the Statehouse.
A year...
Data center incentive bill stalls after tax administrator raises red flags
Efforts to get more data centers built in Rhode Island were put on hold in May when legislation offering tax breaks to developers was...
House committee approves legislation banning ‘assault weapons’
PROVIDENCE – The House Judiciary Committee by a 12-6 vote Tuesday approved legislation that would ban the manufacture, purchase, sale, transfer and possession of...
States could see a crypto policy blitz in 2025; will R.I....
If the R.I. State Investment Commission, which manages the state’s $11 billion public retirement system, had a crystal ball in 2019, it could have...
R.I. task force preps for good, bad of AI spread
Businessman Christopher Parisi has watched the evolution of artificial intelligence, from being dismissed as science fiction to being incorporated into everyday life.
However, Parisi says...
Decision on Citizens issue will keep commerce flowing
To the Editor:
On June 18, I had the opportunity to listen to Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, talk about how...
Building affordable housing units proving expensive
In May 2023, Gov. Daniel J. McKee and other state officials issued a press release touting a $101 million investment of State Fiscal Recovery...
Is transparency of open records legislation too taxing for R.I. officials?
An effort afoot to strengthen the state’s 45-year-old Access to Public Records Act has rekindled public debate over what the citizenry has a “right...
At DCYF, labor shortages creating big headaches
The state is struggling to hire and retain public employees, but the labor problems are particularly troubling at the R.I. Department of Children Youth...
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