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The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE The effort to make reductions of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions mandatory in Rhode Island took a big step forward Tuesday with Senate approval of the Act on Climate bill.
The landmark legislation that environmental groups, public-health experts and citizen advocates say is necessary for the state to do more to fight climate change won passage in a 33-to-4 vote. Climate change is real, and its impacts will continue to be devastating if we don’t take action. This is without question our battle and our responsibility,” said Sen. Dawn Euer, the Newport Democrat who introduced the legislation. “This bill is critical to make sure we take the climate crisis seriously and take action as a state.”
Proposed R.I. budget would legalize marijuana, extend car tax phaseout
The proposal also calls for restructuring the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital
By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated March 11, 2021, 4:00 p.m.
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Governor Daniel J. McKee delivers inaugural address on the steps of the State House.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
PROVIDENCE â In his first budget proposal, Governor Dan J. McKee on Thursday outlined an $11.17-billion spending plan that would legalize marijuana, take the next step in the car-tax phaseout, and restructure the stateâs Eleanor Slater Hospital.
McKee submitted his proposed budget four days after his inauguration ceremony. The former lieutenant governor stepped in to become Rhode Islandâs 76th governor after Gina M. Raimondo was confirmed as President Joe Bidenâs secretary of Commerce.
Insurrection, election doubts, and Trump: Why 1,500+ voters in Rhode Island left the GOP
Analysis shows a higher percentage of loss in coastal upper-income communities
By Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff,Updated February 19, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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PROVIDENCE The chairwoman of the state Republican Party is trying to be optimistic.
Last month, more than 1,500 Rhode Island voters some in every city and town in the state dropped their Republican registration, nearly all on or after the deadly insurrection
at the US Capitol
on Jan. 6. Most were from the suburbs and upper-income, coastal communities.
While itâs not unusual for voters to disaffiliate from a political party after a general election, the already small R.I. Republican Party lost a bigger percentage of its voters in January than the Democrats.