Christopher Allen

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved $551.3 million in borrowing – $343.5 million in principle and $207.8 million in interest payments – in four bond referendums, while rejecting for the fourth straight time whether to hold its first Constitutional Convention since 1986 to amend or revise the Rhode Island Constitution. More than 62% of […]

THE I-195 REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION on Wednesday approved a resolution to offer exclusive rights to Hasbro Inc. to buy Parcel 42 for $1.

R.I. GENERAL TREASURER James A. Diossa will soon oversee an "auto-IRA" program instituted by the state to provide a retirement savings program for employees without employer-sponsored retirement plans. / PBN SCREENSHOT

MASSACHUSETTS-BASED BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRM Organogenesis Holdings Inc. has been authorized to receive up to $10 million in tax incentives by R.I. Commerce Corp. in order to establish a manufacturing facility at the former Rubius Therapeutics facility in Smithfield. The R.I. Life Sciences Hub also agreed to grant the company $5 million. This is a screenshot of the property listing on Loopnet.com. / COURTESY THE DAVIS COS. The R.I. Life Science Hub was seeded with $45 million in the fiscal 2024 state budget and now the organization is using a big chunk of that money to woo a Massachusetts biotechnology firm to Rhode Island. Hub Chair Neil D. Steinberg says the group had been quietly negotiating for months with Organogenesis Holdings Inc.

SETTING THE TABLE: Patrons at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort play a hand of blackjack.

THE PROVIDENCE CITY COUNCIL on Thursday approved a $1.5 million 3-year payment-in-leu-of-taxes agreement with Lifespan Corp.

R.I. SENATE DEMOCRATS and House Republicans held leadership caucuses Thursday to elect leadership for the upcoming legislative session.

DEBORAH FLANNERY has stepped down after serving eleven months as deputy secretary of the R.I. Department of Housing./ COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PROVIDENCE – R.I. Deputy Housing Secretary Deborah Flannery is stepping down after less than twelve months on the job. Housing Department spokeswoman Emily Marshall on Tuesday said Flannery sent her resignation via email on Nov. 6, informing Interim Housing Secretary Daniel Conners she had accepted a position with the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. Her last