Governor Gina Raimondo has called for a complete overhaul of the state’s child welfare agency. A new audit has found DCYF failed to follow basic…
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Audit: DCYF Lacks Basic Financial Controls, Oversight
Governor Gina Raimondo has ordered a complete overhaul of The Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The child welfare agency has signed tens of…
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HealthSource RI Fixes Some Glitches, Customer Service Still Lags
Months into her tenure as head of HealthSource RI, Anya Rader Wallack is still trying to undo a tangle of customer service problems.
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Offshore Wind Farm Positions Rhode Island As A Leader
Deepwater Wind has installed the first of five steel foundations for a wind farm that will sit three miles off the coast of Block Island. The project is…
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Financing Completed For South Street Landing Project
More than six months after the ceremonial ground-breaking for a multi-use plan that includes remaking the South Street Power Station as a new state…
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Block Island Wind Farm: A Delicate Topic For Year-Round Island Residents
Federal and state officials take a boat trip this morning to check out the start of construction on Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm. The project…
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Scott MacKay Commentary: Top RI State Workers Not Overpaid
Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo wants to raise the salaries of some of Rhode Island’s top state employees, a move Republican State Chairman Brandon Bell…
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Raimondo Calls For Cap On Health Care Spending
Governor Gina Raimondo has asked a working group to come up with a way to slow health care spending in Rhode Island. It’s a strategy that has showed…
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R.I.P. Chris Nocera
Christopher Nocera, a longtime Providence political operative, Elmhurst neighborhood activist and City Hall fixture, died suddenly last night. He was 60…
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RIPTA Hosts Final Community Meetings In Fare Study
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority holds its last series of public meetings Monday and Tuesday to discuss potential changes in fares. RIPTA will…