Just days before Providence voters were asked to approve $400 million in bonds to upgrade schools in the city, Mayor Brett ...
The city of Providence has halted all discretionary spending and imposed a hiring freeze to comply with a court mandate to ...
It’s not the pension sins of the past or an economic meltdown that is causing headaches this time. It's education funding ...
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and Brown University Health President and CEO John Fernandez said that a Payment In Lieu of ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Jim DeRentis gave a casual tour of their historic brownstone on the East Side of Providence, where ...
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley responded to last weeks court decision that the city needs to 'pay up' for Providence Schools, ...
Libraries. Parks. Summer programming for kids. The latest phase of the legal battle between city and state over funding the ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Jim DeRentis gives a casual tour of the historic brownstone on the East Side of Providence where he lives with his husband, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. Everything is ...
Alex Torres-Perez reports from Providence, where Mayor Brett Smiley says the city will have to increase its revenue if ordered to pay the school department millions. Politics editor Ted Nesi provides ...
Two new rulings by the Rhode Island Superior Court mean that the city will be required to provide additional funding to the Providence Public School District. The rulings follow a case brought by the ...