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Municipal Leaders Announce Priorities for 2024 Assembly Session, Legislative Scorecard
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Municipal Leaders Announce Priorities for 2024 Assembly Session, Legislative Scorecard

LPR News February 26, 2024

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns (The League) released its priorities for the 2024 Legislative Session and in the FY2025 State budget today. The League also announced that it will issue a legislative scorecard for each member of the Assembly in August, at the conclusion of the 2024 session. “The League of Cities […]Read More

Governor McKee Signs Executive Order Establishing State Health Care System Planning Cabinet
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Governor McKee Signs Executive Order Establishing State Health Care System

LPR News February 24, 2024

The Health Care System Planning Cabinet will serve as the primary coordinating body for all health care system planning efforts within the executive branch PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee signed an Executive Order establishing a State Health Care System Planning (HCSP) Cabinet that will take a unified, interdepartmental approach to evaluating and proposing recommendations for Rhode Island’s […]Read More

Governor McKee Announces Tractor-Trailer Travel Ban, State Government Closure Ahead of Tuesday Storm
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Governor McKee Announces Tractor-Trailer Travel Ban, State Government Closure Ahead

LPR News February 13, 2024

Governor Strongly Urges Rhode Islanders to Stay off the Roads During Snowstorm PROVIDENCE, RI – Ahead of tomorrow’s winter storm, Governor Dan McKee today signed an executive order implementing a tractor-trailer travel ban and closing State government on Tuesday. The Governor is also strongly urging Rhode Islanders to stay off the roads, especially between 9 a.m. and 6 […]Read More

Fortuitous Partners and Public Partners Close on Financing for Tidewater Stadium
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Fortuitous Partners and Public Partners Close on Financing for Tidewater

LPR News February 9, 2024

Stadium will be the anchor of broad transformation in Pawtucket; Stadium on track to open for 2025 USL season PAWTUCKET, RI – The City of Pawtucket, the Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency, Rhode Island Commerce, and Fortuitous Partners have closed on all aspects of funding for the multi-purpose stadium at Tidewater Landing, including the bonds, private debt […]Read More

Mayor Smiley to Induct Three Community Leaders into the City’s Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hall of Fame
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Mayor Smiley to Induct Three Community Leaders into the City’s

LPR News February 5, 2024

Chief Judge Frank Caprio, Derek Earl Hazard Jr. and Helen Baskerville-Dukes will be Inducted in the 21st Annual Hall of Fame PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Brett P. Smiley will join members of the Providence City Council, Providence Human Relations Commissioners and community members to induct Chief Judge Frank Caprio, Derek Earl Hazard Jr. and Helen […]Read More

Whitehouse Details How the Supreme Court’s Billionaire Gifts Program Undermines Public Corruption Cases
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Whitehouse Details How the Supreme Court’s Billionaire Gifts Program Undermines

LPR News February 3, 2024

Washington, DC – In case you missed it, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) published an op-ed in Law 360 detailing how recent ethics revelations at the Supreme Court dovetail with the Court’s line of cases undermining prosecution of public corruption cases.   “A line of precedent has emerged at the court that undermines public corruption prosecutions. As a former prosecutor […]Read More

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