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Officials in the already-cash-strapped communities of Woonsocket and Pawtucket are reacting to Gov.

An unapologetic Gov. Donald Carcieri, defending the deep cuts made in state aid to cities and towns in his revised budget for the current year, called on city employees and school teachers to take a 3 percent cut in pay and open up labor contracts for other savings as unionized state workers have.

LOOKING FOR ANSWERS: Members of the media quiz newly named director of the Economic Development Corporation Ioanna Morfessis at Friday's press conference.

Residents of the state's 39 cities and towns, and its 36 school districts, should expect to see either property tax increases or a sharp reduction of municipal services as Gov.

A year ago, Patrick Gannon inspired Rhode Islanders with his plan to feed the hungry.

Rory Smith's departure from the gubernatorial race leaves a big hole atop the GOP ticket.

It was billed as a celebration of dramatic improvements in the test scores at Middletown High School.

Ioanna T. Morfessis The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation unanimously voted Tuesday to appoint Ioanna T. Morfessis of Arizona as the state's next economic development chief, paying her $250,000 a year for the job.

Joseph P. Buchanan spends his working hours reaching out to homeless people who nest beneath the underpasses and hide in the trees next to railroad tracks.

Carcieri is scheduled to speak Thursday at a workshop in Boston hosted by the American Wind Energy Association.

A state plan to house the homeless this winter is woefully inadequate and could lead to deaths when the weather gets colder, advocates said Tuesday.

When Melissa Howard was a teenager, she told Department of Youth, Children, and Families officials that she didn't want to go on Social Security Disability - " despite the fact that they thought she was eligible.

Governor Carcieri met privately Wednesday with the mayors of Rhode Island's four major cities to open a dialogue about the state's worsening financial condition.

Waren, N.H., Nov 25, 2009 .- On a local radio show Wednesday morning, Rhode Island Gov.

Governor Carcieri is weighing in on the public clash between Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence, saying Kennedy has made "outrageous statements about the Catholic church" and the bishop had no choice but to respond.

Ending a historic freedom to fish the seas for the pleasure of it, Massachusetts' 500,000 saltwater anglers will be required to buy state licenses for $10 in 2011, as a result of a bill signed yesterday by Gov.

Nicole Lagace, right, of Providence, stands with others as they hold photos as symbols of people who are potentially homeless and who will exceed the state's shelter capacity.

Someone may have awarded Little Rhody three new congressional districts while we weren't looking.

Governor Carcieri 's lawyers are trying to keep new Superior Court Judge Brian Stern, a former head of state purchasing and chief of staff to the governor, from having to answer questions under oath in a lawsuit filed by the Shire Corp., a road and bridge building company that claims it was the victim of illegal bid manipulations by the state.

Four Rhode Island state troopers will be deputized with immigration powers by early 2010, nearly two years after Governor Carcieri sought the state-federal partnership, and during the waning months of his administration.