Tag: Statehouse
Settlement reached in Statehouse rotunda access lawsuit
PROVIDENCE – The Statehouse rotunda and first floor will be open to protestors during all future State of the State addresses, according to a...
R.I. state budget extends pilot program offering fruit and veggie discounts...
More than 140,000 Rhode Islanders will have another year of access to fresh produce discounts at select grocery stores thanks to funding in the...
What Rhode Island lawmakers did – and didn’t do – on...
Technology moves fast. The R.I. Statehouse moves a little slower.
Nevertheless, the General Assembly made several spirited attempts this year to legislate and regulate an...
Virginia education group files ethics complaint against R.I. Senate president
A Virginia-based organization known for mounting legal challenges to DEI initiatives and LGBTQ-inclusive school policies across the country has filed an ethics complaint against R.I....
Report: State seal on $70K rug at Statehouse repaired at no...
PROVIDENCE – The new $70,000 rug that arrived at the Statehouse in February with mistakes on the two state seals woven into the floor...
Providence mayoral race’s first forum brings Democratic party fault lines into...
Rhode Island’s capital of Providence often serves as shorthand for the state itself. A four-candidate forum for the city’s mayoral race held April 22...
R.I. ramps up homebuilding as affordability crisis lingers, latest state snapshot...
Rhode Island’s push to build new homes has gained traction over the last year, but the affordability of existing housing stock still remains a...
As Smithfield moves to ban data centers, lawmakers debate how to...
There’s no concrete proposal yet for a data center in Smithfield.
But there is a ghost town.
A 2010 inventory of Smithfield’s historic sites described a settlement known...
Ex-cabinet member Jim Thorsen tells his side of Philadelphia story
Former state administration director Jim Thorsen swore under oath to the Rhode Island Ethics Commission Tuesday that he never saw the croissants and cold...
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...
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