The state health insurance commissioner has slashed proposed premiums, keeping rate increases in the single digits –– in some cases just barely –– for people covered through their employers.
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Governor Carcieri opposes the move to decriminalize marijuana, according to spokeswoman Amy Kempe. Stopping short of saying he would veto any such proposal, Kempe said: "The governor opposes any legislation that weakens the drug laws, and has vetoed every piece of legislation that weakens those laws that has been sent to him."
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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — A teacher at Central Falls High School has been disciplined after School Supt. Frances Gallo discovered a doll representing President Obama hanging upside down in effigy in the teacher's third-floor classroom Monday afternoon. The doll wore a sign: "Fire CF teachers."
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For the second month in a row, Rhode Island added jobs in February while its jobless rate held steady at 12.7 percent, fueling hopes that the state's economy may at last be leveling off, according to new figures to be released Friday.
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Workers laid off due to the recent flooding in Rhode Island may obtain unemployment benefits a week earlier than usual if their employers apply for a special waiver, the state Department of Labor and Training said Thursday.
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By Katherine Gregg and Randal Edgar, The Providence Journal
Thirty eight years later, the new speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives is a bit more reserved in his choice of words — but not much — when he talks about gambling, taxes, public employee pensions and the difficulty every incumbent will have in a year when he acknowledges: "People are angry. They are hurting. They are scared, and they want to lash out."
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The Providence branch of the NAACP praised Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson's elevation to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a historic step in black history and for women. Thompson, 58, of Cranston, became the first black person and the second woman to serve on the Boston-based federal appeals court with her confirmation by the Senate Wednesday.
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Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Gov. Don Carcieri (R) Elected: November 2002, 2006 Term expires: January 2011
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