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The proposal to scrap primaries for runoff elections is championed by former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino.

In the past year, the system's aggregate funded ratio rose from 55% to 58%, according to an annual report from the pension system's actuary.

The 36-year was elected mayor of Central Falls in 2012 and was the city's first Latino mayor.

PROVIDENCE — The state Office of Cannabis Regulation, which is spearheading the effort to add six new medical marijuana dispensaries in Rhode Island, has a new chief, Matthew Santacroce, a former policy director for Gov. Gina Raimondo. Santacroce, who left the Raimondo administration in 2018 and most recently worked at The Policy Lab, a collaborative think tank run by Brown University, began his new job in cannabis regulation just weeks ago. Santacroce, who earned $93,575 as Raimondo’s policy director, was appointed on Jan. 19 as the Department of Business Regulation’s new cannabis c...

PROVIDENCE — Former Centrals Fall Mayor James Diossa, a leading candidate in the lieutenant governor sweepstakes, has resigned from the board of a company seeking one of the first new marijuana dispensary licenses available in Rhode Island in years. In response to Journal inquiries, Diossa spokesman Christopher Hunter on Thursday provided a copy of Diossa's January 8 letter of resignation. "I hereby resign my position on the Board of Directors of the Edward O. Hawkins Center, Inc. effective on today’s date,'' Diossa wrote on the day president-elect Joe Biden introduced some of his cabi...