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When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions - Brown University - for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions - Brown University - for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

Experts say it's likely federal securities regulators investigating the financing of the Miami Marlins ballpark are looking to see if bond buyers were misled, or if participants in the deal were improperly influenced.

Pubcasting networks continue to deal with the uncertainties of state funding in economically and politically precarious times, closing offices, facing possible cuts and bracing for the consequences.

The state education department says 73% of students were proficient or better in reading on the New England Common Assessment Program tests, up two points from 2010.

Despite his recent stumbles in Colorado and Minnesota, Mitt Romney is still the favorite to win the Republican nomination for president.

Homeless advocates serve lunch at the Rhode Island State House at a new weekly soup kitchen on Thursday, Feb.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee A signed into law today the redistricting plan that Rhode Island's Legislature passed last week.

Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other -- for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means Christianity and virtually any public invoking of God.

In his effort to make this "the year of the cities and towns," Governor Lincoln Chafee pledged almost $40 million in additional funds to municipalities mostly in education aid in last week's budget proposal.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will be at a Game Stop in Bellingham, Massachusetts at midnight tonight for the release of his video game company 38 Studios' highly anticipated first title, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning." The game has won positive early reviews and, as the Providence Journal reported this weekend, industry analysts are ... (more)

Nearly three months after police busted a cigarette-smuggling ring that authorities say cost Rhode Island $5.7 million in tax revenue, Gov.

Cranston Sen. Beatrice Lanzi was one of four recipients of a "Champion for Change" award on Friday for her work on the issue of teen dating violence as a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly.

City Council- It will be a busy night for the Woonsocket City Council starting with a meeting of the Audit Sub-Committee at 5 p.m. Sub-Committee members are scheduled toA review and discuss data submitted by the school department to the state director of the department of revenue.

A Rhode Island nursing home association says a funding plan by Gov. Lincoln Chafee's administration would "devastate" their industry with layoffs and service cut-backs. LeadingAgeRI says the planned restructuring of how that state reimburses nursing homes would lead to some homes losing a lot of state aid while others would receive aid windfalls.

RI Biz Winners and Flops a review of the people and companies that make RI's economic engine go or slow.

Members of the Tiverton School Department sat town with the Budget Committee Thursday night and brisked through several triggering items in their fiscal 2012 proposal, including the septic system work, staff changes and other pressing infrastructure needs.

Lawmakers representing the struggling city of Central Falls are vowing to fight attempts to make the city pay for the state-appointed receiver now in control of its finances and operations.

Rhode Island lawmakers representing the struggling city of Central Falls say it's wrong to make the city pay for the state-appointed receiver now in control of its finances and operations.

An increase to the state's cigarette tax, restaurant and beverage sales tax and a new seven percent sales tax expansion are some of what Governor Lincoln Chafee proposed Tuesday night in his $7.9 billion budget plan to close the projected $125 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year that begins July 1. In total, Chafee's proposed budget to ... (more)