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Building two new high schools isn’t as easy as pressing a button now that the City Council has approved the issuance of $350 million in bonding approved by the voters last November. …

School Superintendent Lynn Dambruch and Assistant Superintendent William McCaffrey were still on Cloud Nine Tuesday morning following city council approval to issue bonds for new high schools Monday …

The City Council will get an overview of the latest cost projections to build two new high schools and long terms impact on city finances at its regularly scheduled meeting on Sept. 18. In an …

Looking through her round tortoise shell glasses, Elizabeth Rau read aloud from her sticky note laden copy of The Good Slope, a collection of her personal essays. These “snapshots of (her) …

With only minor changes that won’t affect higher taxes for residential or commercial property owners, the City Council approved the mayor’s proposed $353.2 million budget Thursday night …

The document that will set the financial course for the fiscal year starting July 1 and unquestionably higher tax bills – the 2023-24 city budget – was reviewed by the City Council Monday …

The city closed out the 2022 Fiscal Year on June 30, 2022 with a $33 million unassigned fund balance, an increase of $2 million from the prior year. That’s good news for Mayor Frank Picozzi …

Even when cities and towns decide how they want to spend their federal largesse, getting the money out the door takes time

Here’s who’s going to work for the new mayors in Cranston, Warwick, and Central Falls The new mayors will be sworn in next week, and they’ve already named a few people to their respective staffs. By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated December 29, 2020, 9:36 a.m. Email to a Friend LEADING OFF Happy Tuesday and welcome to Rhode Map, your daily guide to everything happening in the Ocean State. I’m Dan McGowan and now Bill Belichick knows what it’s like to play “Maddenâ�...

Who knows at the time what memories will stay with them all their lives? Arriving on the island one morning just after the new year in 1973 with Peder Schaefer, a friend and co-worker from summers at the Narragansett Inn, I literally took off for an island tour in a jeep Eleanor Mott had graciously made available to us. The day was bright sun, charged by a blistering wind that blew us from side to side down the deserted roads, the light glinting off the snow and ice which enveloped the frozen l...