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05/15/2012 - 5:08pm
The Providence Journal
Mayor Joseph M. Polisena's administration is studying a collection of pension and healthcare changes to reduce the cost of employees' retirement benefits, including freezing cost-of-living adjustments.
05/14/2012 - 7:08am
WRNI
While a political maelstrom and media swirl rages over salaries and benefits for professors at the University of Rhode Island, our state's politicians are ducking a larger and more important issue: the lagging state investments in our public colleges and universities.
05/12/2012 - 1:36am
GoLocalProv
A double-recession could deliver the fatal blow to a state already struggling with the second highest unemployment in the country, Rhode Island top economists say.
05/12/2012 - 12:10am
PolitiFact
As mayor of Rhode Island's second-largest city from 1993 to 1999, Lincoln Chafee has had some experience with municipal pension plans and he knows that a lot of them are in trouble.
05/11/2012 - 12:36am
BusinessWeek
Rhode Island union members are being asked to participate in a campaign running from Mother's Day to Father's Day to support local businesses.
05/10/2012 - 1:14pm
GoLocalProv
Steve Smith will remain head of the Providence Teachers Union after a 349-227 vote taken Wednesday.
05/10/2012 - 11:36am
South County Independent
The union representing 700 full-time faculty members at the University of Rhode Island has asked the state Labor Relations Board to force the Board of Governors for Higher Education to ratify a tentative contract.
05/09/2012 - 8:07pm
EastBayRI.com
Tucked away on a line in the upcoming fiscal year budget, which would affect the 2012-13 school year, is an item not sitting so well with the East Providence High School coaching fraternity.
05/09/2012 - 11:11am
Providence Eyewitness News
The state of Rhode Island may be going through tough economic times, but one state board is working hard to retain workers and jobs in Rhode Island.
05/08/2012 - 9:31pm
Providence Eyewitness News
The bankruptcy on the Blackstone hung over West Warwick High School's auditorium Tuesday as town leaders got a dire warning from state officials: their pension fund for 654 active and retired police officers, firefighters and town workers is on track to run out of cash within five years.
05/08/2012 - 7:59pm
Providence Eyewitness News
A Burrillville manufacturer broke ground on a new state of the art facility Tuesday.
05/07/2012 - 11:15pm
The Providence Journal
A sharply divided Board of Governors for Higher Education Monday night rejected four contracts that would have given compounded 3-percent raises to faculty at the University of Rhode Island and to members of three other unions.
05/07/2012 - 5:47pm
WPRI-TV 12 (blog)
A proposal [pdf] put forward by state Sen. John Tassoni, D-Smithfield, would create a special defined-benefit pension only for employees in the Departments of Corrections and Children, Youth and Families. The new pension would spike in value after 30 years of employment, maxing out at 80% of salary.
05/03/2012 - 4:01pm
News
Highlights from Fleming & Associates March 2012 Poll For Working Rhode Island
05/03/2012 - 3:15pm
News
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an ideologically
conservative group consisting of business interests and conservative state
legislators for the purpose of drafting research, policy papers and model
legislation to assist and influence state legislatures and promote
conservative initiatives.
05/02/2012 - 10:28am
WPRO
Mayor Angel Taveras said the city is ready to defend a newly signed ordinance that suspends cost of living adjustments on retiree pensions in court .
05/01/2012 - 4:10pm
STLtoday.com
Brown University will voluntarily pay Providence $31.5 million more over the next 11 years to help address financial problems that Mayor Angel Taveras has warned could put the city on the brink of bankruptcy.
05/01/2012 - 1:37pm
BusinessWeek
Providence, Rhode Island’s capital, had its rating cut by Standard & Poor’s even as it seeks to repair its finances by overhauling an ailing pension system and extracting bigger voluntary payments from Brown University.
05/01/2012 - 10:03am
WPRO
Union officials are reacting to the pension plan signed by Providence Mayor Angel Taveras Monday saying that city is going to have a court battle on its hands.
04/30/2012 - 11:55pm
WLNE-TV (ABC6)
"It's not an easy thing to do, but it is a necessary thing to do." said Providence Mayor Angel Taveras. With those words, and a few strokes of his pen, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, signed his pension protection plan, into law.
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