Attorney general rules in Journal s favor in fight over RI Convention Center records msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PROVIDENCE Attorney General Peter Neronha has opened the door to the release of long-withheld information about the $16.9 million-plus in taxpayer dollars spent in 2019 on staffing events at the Rhode Island Convention Center, the Dunkin Donuts Center and affiliated properties.
The ruling came Wednesday in response to a complaint filed by The Journal against the heavily taxpayer-subsidized Rhode Island Convention Center Authority a year ago, before COVID-19 turned the venues into a makeshift hospital and then a vaccination site. We find that the authority itself did not violate the APRA . by not producing records it does not maintain, Special Assistant Attorney General Kayla O Rourke wrote on behalf of the office.
PROVIDENCE - The state struck out in its attempt to convince a state court judge to dismiss a city and town lawsuit challenging the legality of the state s financially irresponsible lifetime contracts law.
Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirl rejected the state s motion to dismiss earlier this week, at a time the top leaders of the AFL-CIO are signaling their intent to push for expansion of the law to college and state employees during the 2021 session.
An outgrowth of a bitter contract dispute in East Providence more than a decade ago, the law extending the terms of expired municipal employee contracts indefinitely represented a long-sought victory for the state s teachers unions especially.