House Speaker Shekarchi seeks better deal on proposed no-bid IGT Lottery contract providencejournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from providencejournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Measure to move on to the House of Representatives
SMITH HILL â The Senate passed legislation last week that would permanently enact the Rhode Island Promise program â a scholarship program which provides up to two years of free tuition for eligible Rhode Islanders at the Community College of Rhode Island.
The program is currently set to expire with the next incoming class this fall, though Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (Dist. 4 â Providence, North Providence) hopes to remove the sunset provision altogether. Â
âHigher education is more necessary than ever before, and it has to be available and affordable for all Rhode Islanders,â Ruggerio said. âRhode Island Promise has proven itself effective, significantly improving two-year graduation rates for students. Removing barriers to higher education â particularly its high cost â supports families, helps Rhode Islanders land better jobs, makes our workforce more attractive to employers an
After the Chauvin verdict, itâs time for Rhode Island to get serious about police reform
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 20, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Protesters march to the state house during a Black Lives Matter rally in Providence, Rhode Island on June 5, 2020.JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
It took the public killing of George Floyd â nine minutes and 29 seconds of chilling video â for peopleâs attitude toward the police to change forever. It took a jury about 10 hours to convict Floydâs killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, of murder and manslaughter charges.
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Neronha slams CRMC over approval of Jamestown Boat Yard expansion
By Jim Hummel
PROVIDENCE For the second time in two months Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is questioning how the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council handled a request for a waterfront expansion, this time from a boatyard in Jamestown, saying the agency skipped required steps in the approval process.
In a strongly worded four-page letter Monday to the agency’s chairwoman, Jennifer Cervenka, Neronha said there were “inadequacies” in a draft decision, adding that the way CRMC made its decision “confused and frustrated the public’s trust in the structured and formal agency decision-making process designed to protect our environment.”