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Pop quiz! What sounds like a healthier choice for a grade schooler’s midday meal: A half cup of white rice, or a “cinnamon bun fun lunch”? The latter option was on the menu for East Greenwich elementary schools on Wednesday. Later that same day, a bill concerning the quality of public school meals passed the […] The post Schoolkids already have enough on their plate. Will legislators take brown rice off it? appeared first on Rhode Island Current.

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A lobbyist also suggested Rhode Island switch to a merit-based system for retail pot licenses, rather than a lottery.

A lobbyist also suggested Rhode Island switch to a merit-based system for retail pot licenses, rather than a lottery.

Lobbyist Rick McAuliffe paid a visit to the Town Council last Friday to give an update on how things are going for the town’s legislative agenda at the Rhode Island State Legislature. The town has sent three resolutions to the General Assembly: one...

The Town Council received an update from lobbyist Rick McAuliffe of the Mayforth Group on the “Mexican standoff” between the town and the Rhode Island State Police on Friday, April 29. The State Police are currently requesting $45,000 for the summer...

Who will win the lottery to run Rhode Islands six new medical marijuana dispensaries? Tom Mooney, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal file / Kris Craig A customer walks through Greenleaf Compassion Center in Portsmouth. PROVIDENCE — David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union. It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento and six stores in New Mexico, and the company has had stores in Oregon and Washin...

David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union. It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento, six stores in New Mexico and has had stores in Oregon and Washington, says Rick McAuliffe, a Rhode Island lobbyist who now also serves as a director for Spradin’s new local affiliate: Perfect Union-RI. The company and 27 other businesses all filed applications last month for a chance to run one of six new medical marijuana dispensaries planned f...

Who will win the lottery to run Rhode Islands six new medical marijuana dispensaries? Tom Mooney, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal file / Kris Craig A customer walks through Greenleaf Compassion Center in Portsmouth. PROVIDENCE — David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union. It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento and six stores in New Mexico, and the company has had stores in Oregon and Washin...

PHOTO BlackInk CC GoLocal has a complete breakdown of who has applied for the new and expanded list of medical marijuana licenses -- so-called compassion centers -- and the applicants include some of the top insiders in Rhode Island and even one sitting mayor. All applications needed to be filed last week with the State of Rhode Island. The applicants directors are almost exclusively male, white and an overwhelming number of high-level political players -- lobbyists, past and present elected of...