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The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees more than 20 agencies, including ICE, Secret Service, and FEMA, previously said that ICE will not carry out any immigration enforcement activity near vaccine sites, including the clinics that FEMA has set up under President Biden’s administration.David Goldman/Associated Press PROVIDENCE— When Rhode Island asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help building out the state’s vaccination efforts on Feb. 23, numerous federal agencies, not just FEMA, deployed workers to the Ocean State. Two months later, personnel from ...

  On Wednesday, USPS confirmed with GoLocal that the actions taken outside the state building in Rhode Island are in fact illegal.  USPS on Record "We often have instances of mail collection boxes being tagged with graffiti or used as a billboard with someone taping or gluing a notice to it," said Stephen Doherty in Corporate Communications for the Massachusetts-Rhode Island District.  "While this doesn’t rise to the level of interfering with the collection or delivery of mail, defacing postal property is illegal, but seldom prosecuted," he added.  "In some areas, security camera footag...

McKee during last week's budget briefing As Rhode Island state leaders are racing toward passing legislation to legalize consumer sales of marijuana, the devil in the details is coming to the forefront. Governor Dan McKee and State House leaders are all on record supporting the passage of legislation to allow the sale of recreational marijuana. Two major questions are emerging: how much revenue will be generated and whether the increased costs associated with addiction will consume significant portions of the state's anticipated additional revenue. According to a range of experts, about 10% ...

Staffing service that helped with COVID response says RI owes $275,000 Jim Hummel, The Hummel Report © David DelPoio Sandy Leite, in her Warwick office, runs an employment agency that places workers with the state. She says the state owes her more than $200,000 on invoices going back to July. The owner of an employment agency that has provided contact tracers, case investigators and other office workers for the Rhode Island Department of Health during the pandemic says the state owes her $275,000, with invoices dating to last summer. “I did what was on the contract. They�...

McKee has staffing choices to make when he moves into governor's office PROVIDENCE — By the end of this week, Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee may see his seven-member staff swell to more than 50. That includes the 40-plus employees on current Gov. Gina Raimondo's $4-million office payroll at salaries ranging from $43,153 to $193,758, plus the handful reporting to her who are on the payrolls of other state agencies. For example: McKee, who is queued up to take over as governor when Raimondo wins anticipated confirmation as President Joe Biden's commerce secretary, has his own chief of staff...