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To meet the mandatory greenhouse-gas reduction goals Rhode Island set earlier this year, state environmental officials Wednesday said lawmakers must join a proposed regional transportation carbon-pricing pact.  The Transportation Climate Initiative, which Rhode Island officials have been working on with counterparts from Massachusetts and other northeastern states, would cap diesel and gasoline emissions and charge wholesalers for their contribution to them. Since taking office in March, Gov. Dan McKee has been noncommittal about the multi-state TCI plan his predecessor Gina Raimondo hel...

With the only Republican on the committee absent at the time of the vote, the tally was 7-0 without any audible testimony, on the night of the first and only hearing on the bill which mirrors a controversial contract right given teachers two years ago that is under challenge in court.  In response to a Journal inquiry, J. Michael Downey, the president of the largest state employees union - Council 94, AFSCME - said his union sent a brief letter supporting the bill. But "I don't think it is that big of a deal,'' he said, even though his union members are currently working under an expired co...

International Productions Continue To Shoot in Malta Despite Pandemic source: Twitter account - Laura Way VALLETTA: A spate of international productions have been filming in Malta, despite the COVID-19 pandemic which has left other areas of the island’s economy shuttered. They are expected to inject 7 m EUR into the economy. The films are shooting across the archipelago, including Malta’s sister island of Gozo. Two productions are serviced by Halo Pictures: the six-part British television series The Reluctant Madame Blanc, created by and starring Sally Lindsay, and directed by Dermot Boy...

LANSING, MI--   Legislation introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday would restore a second seat to the 25th Circuit Court in Marquette County. The county is currently served by only one circuit court judge, after a second position was eliminated in 2017. “It is past time that the busiest court in the Upper Peninsula have more than one judge to oversee the increasing number of legal cases in the county,” said Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Waucedah Township. “There simply is not enough time or resources for one person to manage such an immense workload. Restoring this p...