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Gov. Don Carcieri proposed closing Rhode Island's ballooning budget deficit Monday by cutting roughly $125 million in state funding for cities, towns and schools, putting local leaders under tremendous pressure to cut costs or raise property taxes. The plan from the Republican governor is meant to close a $220 million budget deficit for the fiscal year ending in June, a shortfall of roughly 7 percent of what state authorities expected to collect. That budget gap grew as a bruising recession... Read Full Story
Snow plowing may take longer, classrooms could become more crowded and fewer police officers may patrol Rhode Island if cities and towns are forced to absorb $125 million in funding cuts proposed by Gov. Don Carcieri to balance a tanking state budget. The Republican governor defended his proposal Tuesday to reduce state assistance to cities and towns as necessary amid an extraordinary recession that has pushed unemployment to nearly 13 percent and driven down income tax and sales tax... Read Full Story
The nominee who would run Rhode Island's economic development agency in a state with nearly 13 percent unemployment said Friday she wants to connect the unemployed with jobs but needs at least three months to assemble a plan for reviving the struggling economy. Gov. Don Carcieri earlier this week nominated Ioanna Morfessis, 58, to become executive director of the Economic Development Corporation, which was critcized by a review panel in April as ineffective after its last director resigned... Read Full Story
The state Senate will consider Monday how to repair Rhode Island's damaged economy, which is expected to continue struggling even as other parts of the country rebound. Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed scheduled the public forum at Rhode Island College around key issues expect to arise during the next legislative session starting in January, including government consolidation, federal stimulus funding, the foreclosure crisis and the state's faltering budget. Rhode Island began sliding... Read Full Story
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. approved a new leader Tuesday as part of an overhaul of the quasi-governmental agency, which has been criticized as ineffective in a state with a struggling economy and whose 12.9 percent unemployment rate is third worst in the nation. Ioanna Morfessis has been a private consultant based in Phoenix since 2004, but has more than 25 years of experience as an economic development official in Arizona and Maryland. The corporation's board unanimously... Read Full Story
National Grid struck a 20-year deal with wind developer Deepwater Wind that will help a small proposed wind project off the coast of Rhode Island move forward, Gov. Don Carcieri announced Wednesday. The utility agreed to buy power from the wind farm, which is proposed as up to eight turbines built off the coast of Block Island, for 24.4 cents per kilowatt hour in the first full year of operation. The deal is important because it secures a buyer for power the project would generate... Read Full Story
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Rhode Island has long been known for its lax rules regarding prostitution, but as of November 3, the exchange of money for sex was ultimately made illegal in Rhode Island under Governor Donald Carcieri’s bill. The recent crackdown found a familiar New England personality wrangled into the mix this weekend when Robert Sormanti, 47, of Warwick, RI, was one of the 14 men and women arrested on prostitution-related charges. Sormanti is known... Read Full Story
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Gov. Don Carcieri will offer industry leaders an update Thursday on his plans to build a massive wind farm off Rhode Island's coast capable of providing 15 percent of the state's electricity needs. The Republican governor is scheduled to address a two-day workshop held in Boston next week by the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade group of wind developers, suppliers, researchers and others. He will be joined by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and ISO New England President Gordon... Read Full Story
A bursting bubble in housing prices combined with one of the nation's worst financial meltdowns since the Great Depression likely caused a recession in Rhode Island that has been longer and deeper than most of the country, a federal official said Tuesday. Robert Tannenwald, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, offered state lawmakers his theory on the reasons for the state's unique financial woes during an economic forum convened by House Speaker William Murphy, D-West... Read Full Story
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