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The key contract details for URI’s new president Marc Parlange will be paid $500,000 and receive a host of other benefits during his first year at the public institution By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 27, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend A sign on the campus of the University of Rhode Island, in South Kingstown, R.I., Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Steven Senne/Associated Press If you have friends or relatives who would like their own free copy of this daily briefing about Rhode Island, tell them they can  LEADING OFF Happy Tuesday and welcome to Rhode Map, ...

In R.I., you may have to look for work to stay on unemployment Brian Amaral © Courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training building in Cranston, R.I. PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island is preparing to bring back the requirement that you have to look for work and be available and able to do it while you’re collecting unemployment. Acting Department of Labor and Training Director Matt Weldon said in an interview Tuesday that those rules, suspended at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be back in place “in the...

RIPEC floats an interesting idea for improving school funding Statewide student spending total is $18,079 per pupil. Woonsocket and Pawtucket are spending far less on their students. By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend LEADING OFF Happy Wednesday and welcome to Rhode Map, your daily guide to everything happening in the Ocean State. I’m Dan McGowan and how am I just learning now that there’s a new “Mighty Ducks” show on Disney+? Follow me on Twitter . ICYMI: Rhode Island was up to 142,774 confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a...

Raimondo transfers budget powers to McKee via executive order The governor also named three new acting heads of state departments By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated February 22, 2021, 7:31 p.m. Email to a Friend Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signs an executive order on Feb. 22 directing state departments to cooperate with Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee in his efforts to develop the state's budget for the upcoming fiscal year.Photo Courtesy of the Office of the Governor of Rhode Island/Handout PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo on Monday handed over budget powers to he...

Raimondo delegates budget power to McKee, names 3 to cabinet Gov. Gina Raimondo Monday turned her constitutionally-granted state budget-writing responsibilities over to Lt. Gov. Dan McKee. A tax and spending plan for the year beginning July 1 is due by state law no later than March 11, but Raimondo's nomination to be U.S. Commerce Secretary awaits Senate confirmation with no date set for a vote. In an executive order she signed Monday evening, Raimondo delegated "development of the FY 2022 Budget" to McKee, regardless of whether she is in office. The Rhode Island Constitution requires the g...