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The ACLU of Rhode Island says Flock Safety's public transparency portals show residents the present and nothing else — and that Flock's website is excluded from the Internet Archive, making earlier versions impossible to compare.
RIPTA will detour 41 bus routes and relocate Kennedy Plaza stops to Dyer Street on Friday and Saturday to accommodate PVDFest.
RIPTA's own records show fixed-route buses met the agency's on-time window 77% of the time in FY2025, below its 80% goal, and missed the target in every month of 2025 it reported. The newest route-by-route figures the public can see date to October 2023.
Providence leaders debated a 4% rent stabilization cap before a mayoral veto stopped the measure in May. Public records from cities like St. Paul and states like Oregon reveal how different formulas and vacancy rules alter housing markets.
Federal data shows the labor share of business output reached a record-low 52.8% in the second quarter. While Rhode Island wage growth matched productivity gains, weekly pay trails national levels as housing costs bite.
Rhode Island is expanding AI training while confronting unresolved questions about data-center power costs, tax incentives and permanent jobs. Smithfield’s proposed corporate complex offers the clearest local test.
New York’s count of resident federal tax filers reporting at least $1 million rose in 2023, even as separate records showed continued out-migration. The mixed evidence bears on Rhode Island’s enacted high-earner surtax.
FDA has proposed making companies notify the agency before selling ingredients they deem "generally recognized as safe," but the proposal would not require FDA approval and would let existing ingredients through without safety data. Comments are due December 9.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Brown's Costs of War Project counts trillions spent and millions dead, while Rhode Island's Guard deployments, veterans' budget and surveillance systems show how a response built without regard to bin Laden's stated grievances became permanent.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, four times July's pace, with gasoline doing most of the work while the annual rate held at 3.4%. In Rhode Island, the national pickup lands on households already paying 29 cents per kilowatt-hour and facing a pending 15% winter supply-rate increase.
A new National Consumer Law Center roadmap lists the tools states can use to lower utility bills. Rhode Island's 2026 rate case used several of them — but the credits are temporary, the winter supply rate is proposed to jump, and key reforms carry 2027 dates.
DHS reported a record 50,925 ICE arrests in August while ICE's roster of local police deputization agreements reached 2,466. Rhode Island isn't on that roster — but the limits keeping it off are agency policy and executive order, not statute.
With Rhode Island rents up more than 30% in four years, a new national report on corporate landlords in Phoenix offers a cautionary tale for state lawmakers. While institutional investors own a tiny fraction of local housing today, proposals to restrict corporate residential portfolios remain unresolved.
State Rep. David Morales defeated incumbent Mayor Brett Smiley in Providence's Democratic mayoral primary Wednesday, with Smiley conceding as unofficial results still stood. Morales advances to the November 3 general election.
Helena Buonanno Foulkes defeated Gov. Dan McKee in Wednesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary, denying a sitting governor his party's nomination. The state's results remained unofficial as of this morning.
