Rhode Island Economy
RI Report has compiled the most recent information on the overall economic picture in Rhode Island, including an update on Governor Donald Carcieri’s much publicized campaign promise to create 20,000 new jobs… Governor Carcieri declared victory on his pledge to add an additional 20,000 new jobs to the Rhode Island economy yesterday. Citing the monthly…
From Matt Bower of the Warwick Daily Times…The airport corporation yesterday voted to study a plan that would expand the runway from its current 7,166 feet to 8,700 feet – a reduction from the 9,350 listed in previous proposals. That’s under a modified version of the plan known as “Option B” – one of five…
Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian is dissatisfied with the Green Airport runway expansion evaluation and planning process. From Matt Bower of the Warwick Daily Times…After reviewing the recent Environmental Impact Statement on the expansion of T.F. Green Airport, Mayor Scott Avedisian said he is not happy with the study. Avedisian yesterday announced that the city has…
The new RI Report website juxtaposes the release of the Tax Foundation‘s report showing Rhode Island’s tax-burden to be fourth highest in the nation with census bureau data showing population in the Providence-New Bedford metro area to have declined since 2004, implicitly implying a connection. Actually, there’s one other factor needed to complete the chain.…
I’ve taken a bit of flack, including a charge that I’ve lost credibility on economic development issues, over my last post discussing the impact of the T.F. Greene airport expansion proposals (more on it here, here). In it, I took ProJo columnist Ed Achorn to task because I thought that (to quote from a follow-up…
To help understand the options being considered for an airport runway extension, here is a link to a map of T.F Green Airport and the surrounding neighborhoods, courtesy of Mapquest.
In an otherwise good piece explaining the reason why Mississippi just got a new Toyota car plant and Rhode Island did not, ProJo columnist Ed Achorn writes: Its culture of NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard) is so bad that the state must engage in a prolonged struggle merely to extend the main runway at the…
Here’s the package of tax-increases proposed by the “Campaign for Rhode Island Priorities” for closing the state budget deficit…Stop the elimination of the 5% capital gains tax scheduled for 2008. Massachusetts, which eliminated its own capital gains tax suffered so badly, and fell so far behind in meeting the needs of its people, it rescinded…
To no one’s surprise, the various “advocates” who have taken up permanent residence at the State House pleaded with lawmakers to accept their solution to the budget shortfall: either raise taxes or stop any scheduled tax cuts: Freeze the so-called “tax-cut-for-the- rich” in its tracks before state government loses tens of millions of dollars. Halt…
In the Providence Phoenix from two weeks ago, Ian Donnis quoted University of Rhode Island Political Science Chairwoman Maureen Moakley on Rhode Island’s tendency to reject development of all sorts…For too long, Moakley believes, there has been a lack of vision and an excess of parochialism on economic development: “We don’t want a port, we…
