NEW: Elorza Drops Plan to Sell Water Supply, Offers No Plan to Resolve $2B in Unfunded Liabilities Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza has abandoned his plan to sell or lease the Providence Water Supply...

Vision Government Solutions, Inc. to use sales and market data to update real estate property values citywide PROVIDENCE R.I. – The City of Providence today announced that the state-mandated full...

Diossa Lobbied for ICE to Bring Prisoners to Wyatt, Prison of Death and Financial Chaos In 2015, Central Falls Mayor James Diossa lobbied the Rhode Island congressional delegation to work to bring...

Support The 6.5% Sales Tax Promise   The families of the Ocean State deserve a better policy culture, and keeping promises is a good place to start. Existing state law (General Law...

Expansion will more than triple the size of the service area to cover all of Providence and add more than 700 new e-bikes   PROVIDENCE R.I.- Today, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and Uber announced that...

Is Providence Back as a Foodie Mecca? In the 1980s and 1990s, Providence emerged on the national stage as a hotbed of great restaurants and cooking Read More.     PawSox Schedule “Ladies...

NY-Based Gotham Greens Unveils $12.5 Million Urban Greenhouse Farm in Providence New York-based Gotham Greens joined Governor Gina Raimondo and elected officials on Thursday to preview its Read...

Employment and Jobs Turn Down Providence, RI – The only changes in the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s Jobs & Opportunity Index (JOI) report for February came from the...

Corporate Medicaid Tax   Businesses should be applauded for hiring those most in need of work…not punished with more taxes, and certainly not made out to be the bad guy. It is misguided to...

Written Testimony by Mike Stenhouse Opposing “Minimum Wage” Hikes   Would further degrade an already weak Ocean State Jobs Market Providence, RI – The CEO of the RI Center for...

Boston among likeliest cities to lead world in technology in the next few years: Report Annual industry survey from KPMG sees Boston tied for ninth with Austin By Tom Acitelli Boston is the ninth...

R.I. Monthly Highlights Quonset Business Park Quonset Business Park was featured in a 10-page spread in Rhode Island Monthly’s February edition. The article showcases “the secret life of...

Bill Re-Defines Trigger to Statutorily Cut the State Sales Tax Already Pulled? Providence, RI — Suffering from a slate of retail store closings and far fewer in-state jobs than the government...

The 6.5% Sales Tax Promise   Existing state law (General Law 44-18-18) specifies a “trigger” for a sales tax rate reduction to 6.5% (from its current level of 7.0%!) if certain...

Proliferation of Chain Stores on Thayer St. — The Death of Locally Owned Retail? Thayer Street on Providence’s East Side used to be predominately dominated by an eclectic collection of local Read...

In a proposal that’s anything but populist, the administration would strip vital funding for vulnerable residents of both urban and rural communities. ALAN PYKE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S...

THE HALF-PERCENT PROMISE Center Calls for Statutorily-Required Sales Tax Cut Full Agenda in Stark Contrast to “Women’s Economic Justice Platform” Providence, RI — With Rhode...

NEW: RI Loses 1,700 Jobs in January Rhode Island lost 1,700 jobs in the month of January while unemployment remained at 4.0 percent, according to the Rhode Read More.     NEW: Roger Williams...

Jobs & Opportunity Index (JOI), January 2019   Reassessed into Stagnation Providence, RI – The biggest change for the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s first Jobs &...