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A sagging economy is biting into municipal revenues, a property-tax cap limits what cities and towns can do to raise more cash. Meanwhile, the state has chopped general aid to municipalities, while fuel, pension and health-care costs soar.
Liz Colon's son, Sam, was seriously lead-poisoned as a baby. Not long afterward, she was among the community activists who met with newly elected Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse in 1998 and asked him to sue the paint companies
Your Turn: React to the Supreme Court decision
Extras: Read the 81-page Supreme Court decision || From The Journal archives: 2.23.06: 3 companies found liable in lead-paint nuisance suit || Special Report: Poisoned, our 2001 series on Rhode Island's lead paint crisis || Rhode Island Department of Health Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Student locator tags: Evil or helpful?
With an increased emphasis on school safety across Rhode Island, identification cards, metal detectors and campus police officers have become familiar sights. But do tracking devices that follow students’ every movement go too far?
Hospital special master: Everything on the table at Landmark
Jonathan N. Savage, the court-appointed special master, says he'll "be looking at a number of possible scenarios by which the hospital will move forward."
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