Are Rhode Island’s 24 Breweries Facing Growing Pains? It has been a decade-plus of growth for Rhode Island’s brewers and more big plans are in the works. But with Read More.     Paolino...

Sasse Calls For Strict Due Diligence By Commerce RI on $400M Pawtucket Stadium Project The clock is on for the 120 days of the due diligence phase by Commerce RI with the developers of the proposed...

NEW: Downtown Providence CVS to Close Downtown Providence’s CVS is closing. The store is virtually the only place in the center of the city to buy basic Read More.     RI State Police...

East Side Sees Flood of Teardowns as Average House Price Tops $560,000 Providence’s East Side and Fox Point are seeing a rash of buildings being demolished for new homes. The median Read More.  ...

Trump Tax Break Created to Help the Poor, Criticized for Benefiting the Wealthy – Launching in RI On Monday, Governor Gina Raimondo, Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello, and Pawtucket Mayor Don...

Wexford Project’s $55.2M Hotel Delay Tied to Trump Opportunity Zone Funding Ten months after the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation approved $7.6 million in tax incentives for the proposed...

Councilman David A. Salvatore Helps Uncover Nearly $31K in Overcharges to City Residents With the help of the City’s Internal Auditor, Councilman Salvatore discovered that a change to the Code of...

Providence to realize an estimated $8.5 million operating surplus in FY19, Rainy Day Fund grows to $20 million PROVIDENCE, RI- Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced today that the City of Providence is...

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Mancini Appointed CFO, Silveria First Woman in City History Appointed Director of Finance   PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today announced transitions in the City of Providence’s finance...

Amazon’s Job Growth In MA Explodes With New Robotics Hub, But Few Jobs in RI Amazon has announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub and create 200 tech and...

Station Row Development, Providence’s Eastern Bloc Design: Architecture Critic Will Morgan “Station Row is the perfect hub for the conductors of this city’s creative and cultural...

The Ocean State’s New Jobs & Opportunity Index Numbers Are Here As the third quarter of 2019 came to a close, Rhode Island still held its overall ranking of 47th in the country on the Rhode...

Rhode Island Became A Less Hospitable Place To Raise A Family In 2019 Recently, our Center released our 2019 Freedom Index and Legislator Scorecard for the Rhode Island General Assembly. Sadly, with...

Record Retail Store Closings in 2019 — Could Exceed 12,000, “Mall Armageddon” Could Hit in 2020 This week alone saw retailers Forever 21, Olympia Sports, Barney’s, Dressbarn and others closing...

Hanging on While the Country Advances Providence, RI – Like a herd of zombies in The Walking Dead, Rhode Island’s economy keeps staggering in the direction of the national...

In an opinion column, entitled “Paying Too Much for IGT’s Jobs” published this week in the Cranston Herald, Warwick Beacon and Johnston Sunrise, R.I. Republican National Committeeman Steven...

There Are No Municipalities in RI Where a Family with $50,000 in Income Can Afford to Buy a Home A new report finds that Rhode Island’s housing costs are at a crisis and that “there are no...