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Special Reports
No hunger pangs in the State House
Your Turn: What do you think of taxpayers feeding the General Assembly?
Extra: General Assembly food and drink expenses for 2008 and 2009
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island lawmakers currently get free health, dental and vision-care benefits. A campaign began anew March 5 to make the state's $14,089-a-year part-time lawmakers pay a portion of the cost of their health coverage.
Read the proposed legislation: H5035 would require legislators to pay 10 percent of health insurance costs and H5474 would impose a 20 percent share of the costs
Your turn: Should state legislators pay part of their health insurance costs?
Interactive graphic: Are your local legislators paying a share of their health-care costs?
Governor's FY2010 Budget
Budget includes tax cuts, uses stimulus funds to trim deficit
Budget proposal FY 2010 at a glance
Corporate tax would fade away by 2014
Governor wants to pay Station fire settlement before July 1 with stimulus money
Your Turn: Should R.I. use stimulus money to pay Station fire victims?
Extra: Read Governor Carcieri's budget / Read the FY2010 budget briefing
Extra: View a chart outlining the decrease in state aid to cities and towns
Your Turn: Can Rhode Island afford to cut taxes now?
Your Turn: Are you worried about losing your job?
State of the State
Your Turn: React to Carcieri's State of the State address for 2009
Your Turn: How would you describe the state of the State of RI?
