Edward Fitzpatrick

Perhaps it's impossible to improve on the Rhode Island tourism campaign that involved installing 200-pound stuffies (stuffed clams) at airports around the country.

R.I. often falls short of the requirement that 10 percent of state contracts and purchases go to minority- and women-owned businesses, but “Rhode Map to Success” will help prepare them for the complicated procurement process

PROVIDENCE ― The cyberattack on Rhode Island's public benefits system is aimed at creating big headlines, public outrage, and political pain in order to extract a large ransom payment, a cybersecurity expert said Monday.

“We certainly need the revenue,” House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi said about tolls, noting the money goes toward bridges. “I think we need them.”

“I won’t say I’m supporting it, but I won’t say I won’t support it,” Senate President Dominick Ruggerio said as he and Senate Majority Leader Lawson outlined their priorities for the 2025 legislative session

Months before a cyberattack hit the RIBridges public benefits system, the state auditor general warned that R.I. “currently does not have sufficient resources dedicated” to cybersecurity.

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, arts and culture producer Ross Lippman talks about some of the Black trailblazers in Jamestown highlighted by local author Valerie Southern.

“The investigation into how the ILO Group was awarded a state contract exposed politics at its worst including a procurement process full of back-scratching,” Common Cause's John Marion said

“All Rhode Islanders want it,” Senator DiPalma said of a bill bolstering the Access to Public Records Act. But House Speaker Shekarchi says it's a press priority the public doesn't mention on the campaign trail

“I thought I'd bring a little humor into the frustration that so many people have going over that damn bridge,” artist Duke Marcoccio said of his design