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Renovations are getting underway at the Peace Dale Library in South Kingstown to create a new community learning center.
State and local leaders were at the library on Kingstown Road to mark the start of the renovations on Thursday.
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U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and Ron Estes (KS-04), both former state treasurers, introduced the Unclaimed Retirement Rescue Plan, bipartisan legislation to restore Americans’ lost retirement benefits they rightfully earned.
U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner (RI-02) announced he will introduce an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to protect a crucial program for homeless veterans that the Trump administration has decided to cancel.
For more than a decade, a series of bills have been proposed to address such trades, but differences about the details and a lack of support from top congressional leaders stalled past reform efforts.
A ban on members of Congress and their families trading or owning stocks got new momentum Wednesday, after a bipartisan group of House members announced they had come to an agreement on a new bill.
A bipartisan group of House members unveiled a compromise bill Wednesday afternoon to ban stock trading by individual members of Congress and their families.
Rhode Island Congressman Seth Magaziner has emerged as a leading voice in the effort to ban members of Congress from buying and selling stocks, which appears poised for a breakthrough this month.
Congressman Seth Magaziner has reintroduced legislation to make wage theft a felony throughout the country.
Against the backdrop of Narragansett Bay in North Kingstown, state officials were out in force Monday to speak against President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to stop work on Revolution Wind, the wind energy project off the coast of Rhode Island that is 80 percent complete and a linchpin in the state’s clean energy goals.
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Rhode Island leaders are urging the federal government to reverse an order that abruptly halted construction on an offshore wind farm, warning it will have a “detrimental impact” on New England’s job market and economy.
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