2 more Web retailers cancel R.I. ties

By Paul Grimaldi, The Providence Journal

More online retailers have joined Amazon.com's boycott of Rhode Island as the companies try to stamp out efforts to tax Internet sales.
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Senate commission to study marijuana decriminalization

By Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal

Weeks after legalizing the sale of marijuana to sick people, lawmakers have voted to explore how much Rhode Island might collect in revenue if it were to make all sales of marijuana legal and impose a "sin tax" of $35 per ounce.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles

By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org

States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system. Read More

Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds

By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer

States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes. Read More

Supporters of state name change poised to woo voters' support

By Cynthia Needham, The Providence Journal

Supporters of a plan that would give voters in next year's general election the opportunity to strike the phrase "and Providence Plantations" from the state's formal name, launched a public awareness and education campaign Wednesday. Read More

Lt. Gov. Roberts bows out of race for governor

By Steve Peoples, The Providence Journal

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts will not run for governor in 2010, according to a surprise announcement Wednesday afternoon that squelched widespread speculation the Cranston Democrat would compete for Rhode Island's most powerful elective post. Read More

R.I.'s higher education chief steps down

By Jennifer D. Jordan, The Providence Journal

Tuesday marked the last day for Jack R. Warner, Rhode Island's higher education commissioner since 2002. With his departure, Rhode Island lost three education leaders on the same day. Read More

Sex-offender bills stall in R.I. Assembly

By Michael P. McKinney, The Providence Journal

Lawmakers introduced at least 14 bills dealing with sex offenders this session. With the General Assembly in recess, five have made it through either the House or Senate, but not both. Read More

Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes

By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor

More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes. Read More

Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state

By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Read More

Gov. Don Carcieri (R)
Elected: November 2002, 2006
Term expires: January 2011

	State capital: Providence
	State nickname: The Ocean State
	Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts (D)
	Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis (D)
	Attorney General Patrick Lynch (D)
	Senate President: M. Teresa Paiva-Weed (D)
	House Speaker: William J. Murphy (D)

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