Tag: Regulations
Regulatory reform needed to ease the burden on R.I. businesses
Across the nation, business owners work hard to contribute to their communities, create jobs and drive America’s economy forward. Unfortunately, Rhode Island business owners...
Fishermen battling with changing oceans chart new course after Trump’s push...
STONINGTON, Maine (AP) – Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry...
Southcoast Health lays off 10 paramedics at urgent care centers
PROVIDENCE – New Bedford-based Southcoast Health has laid off 10 paramedics at its six urgent care centers, blaming Massachusetts regulations that the health system...
Economist: After high inflation, debt may hold back momentum
Inflation may have cooled in recent months, but households in Rhode Island and beyond continue to feel the aftereffects.
Thomas Tzitzouris, head of fixed income...
Airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for...
The Biden administration issued final rules Wednesday to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds for things like delayed flights and to better disclose...
Legal sizes for lobsters could change to protect population
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New England could soon become...
State needs better transparency, enforcement of reopening regs
For all the good work Rhode Island officials have done shepherding the state through a phased reopening of its economy, there’s been a surprising...
New England state of mind
Which of the following do you like least about being located in southern New England?
Regulations: 100%
Taxes: 0%
Cost of doing business: 0%
Economic climate: 0%
Of the...
Rhode Island needs fewer, clearer regulations
Rhode Island doesn’t get a failing grade anymore, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of work to do.
That is the conclusion of...

















