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Rhode Island’s budget plan targets high-end vacation homes — with a proposal nicknamed after a pop star grabbing headlines. One of the proposals would add a new surcharge on second homes worth more ...
This legislative session will be remembered for hard work, thoughtful deliberation and collaboration that made possible many improvements for the people of Rhode Island. Faced with a budget shortfall ...
An amendment to a self-storage bill passed against the wishes of GA leadership. Then, the political intrigue began.
(WJAR) — Rhode Island's housing crisis is now driving another dilemma—an increase in surrendered and abandoned pets. Animal ...
Oregon and others.  It’s time for policymakers to abandon the myth that subsidies solve housing shortages and provide ...
A new law sponsored by House Commission on Housing Affordability Chairwoman June S. Speakman and Sen. Tiara T. Mack makes various improvements to Rhode Island’s Low and Moderate Income Housing Act to ...
Like many Rhode Islanders, we know firsthand the frustration of trying to secure primary care in our state. Both of us and members of our families have encountered the same obstacles that countless ...
Some might celebrate these cuts as cost savings. But a growing crisis of homelessness - in red and blue states alike - will ...
Bernard Georges, founder of New Bridges for Haitian Success, said ending temporary protected status will send Haitian ...
The commissions will study topics such as Pawtuxet River flooding, the Act on Climate's progress, housing costs, education ...
House Speaker and Majority Leader detail the significant progress lawmakers made this year in confronting Rhode Island’s ...
PROVIDENCE – Bank Rhode Island awarded $102,650 in grant money to 38 nonprofit organizations across the state, the bank announced on Monday. The bank’s latest charitable contributions will help fund ...