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

Economic Tsunami: Data Shows RI Cities & Towns Are Facing Peril Due to Unfunded Obligation Despite the national and regional economy being in a ten-year economic recovery, Rhode Island’s cities...

U.S. Economy Adds 20K Jobs in February for Weakest Gain in 17 Months The U.S. economy saw its weakest gain in 17 months, adding just 20,000 jobs in February, according to the Labor Read More.  ...

Retail Armageddon Heats Up in Rhode Island — Dozens of Stores Close Retailers are closing stores at a record pace and Rhode Island is getting hit hard.  In January, before many of theRead More.  ...

Christiansen’s Dairy is Closing — 3rd Generation Company Began in the 1920s Another part of historic Rhode Island is coming to an end. Christiansen’s Diary is closing — the company Read More....

Is Providence’s Pedestrian Bridge the Most Expensive Ever? As the numbers emerge on the cost of Providence’s pedestrian bridge, the project is now estimated to be $1,470 a Read More.    ...

Speaker Mattiello Says He Will Block Raimondo’s Plan to Raise Beach Fees Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello said on Thursday that the General Assembly will block Governor Gina...

NEW: Convicted Pedophile Richard Gardner’s House Vandalized Just a day after Providence police reportedly removed near-constant surveillance of convicted pedophile Richard Read More.     NEW:...

NEW: Raimondo Pushing for Major Increase in Beach Fees—Some Up 16% The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is proposing to increase beach parking fees for Rhode Read More.  ...

NEW: Retailer Payless to Close All 2,300 U.S. Stores, Including 20 in Southern N.E. Payless ShoeSource is planning to close all 2,300 of its U.S. stores when it files for bankruptcy later this Read...

Projo and Newport Daily News Hit With More Cuts – Latest GateHouse Layoffs Total 60+ in U.S. Two of Rhode Island’s newspapers were hit with more cuts this week. The parent company of the...

The Wrong Direction?   Is the Governor’s budget pointing our state in the right direction? On Monday, I attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast hosted by the RI Ministers’...

Will Newport’s Gas Emergency Spark RI to Move Faster to Adopt Wind and Solar Ten thousand people’s lives have been directly thrown into upheaval, and indirectly, thousands of employees of Read...

PAWTUCKET – The City of Pawtucket has brought on the Cadmus Group, LLC (Cadmus) who has an extensive track record in renewable energy strategies and design, to explore all possible renewable energy...

Raimondo’s Budget: Taxes and Fees on Netflix, Beachgoers and Marijuana, Spending Jumps to $9.9B Governor Gina Raimondo has unveiled a controversial budget that proposes increasing state spending by...

EXCLUSIVE: One of Raimondo’s Top Recruited Corporations Pulls Out of RI — 200 Jobs Impacted It was billed as one of the big economic development wins by Governor Gina Raimondo. Agoda, a division...

RI Is Losing Its Wealthiest Residents, Poor Place to Retire The leading block of Rhode Island’s residents who are moving out-of-state are primarily wealthy, according to Read More.    ...