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RI POLITICS

Alex and Ani founder and designer Carolyn Rafaelian with the company's CEO, Giovanni Feroce, at a gala in New York City in September 2012.

R.I. sues former Alex and Ani CEO Giovanni Feroce for $1.6 million in back taxes and penalties

The state has filed complaints in Rhode Island courts against 64 people on its tax delinquents list, including Feroce, even as it prepares to launch a tax amnesty period in December. 5:55 a.m.

COMMENTARY | Gregg Amore and David Salvatore

A rendering of the State History Center championed by Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore.

Let’s preserve Rhode Island’s past by investing in the future

Ballot Question 4 would not only create a State History Center, it would also provide jobs and promote tourism, write R.I.’s secretary of state and the Providence Foundation’s executive director. 6:00 a.m.

The outside of Hotel Viking in Newport, R.I., which first opened 100 years ago in 1926.

One little girl, one big hotel, and a childhood full of Newport memories

Meet Newport’s real-life Eloise, Marlen Scalzi, who grew up living in the Hotel Viking, dining on room service, and mingling with its high-profile guests. 5:55 a.m.

RI TRANSPORTATION

Passengers board a RIPTA bus at Kennedy Plaza in Providence on Wednesday.

Crowded buses and lower ridership: A year after historic service cuts, R.I. public transit seeing ‘enforced mediocrity’

RIPTA needs $6 million to restore service reductions made in 2025 to close a budget deficit. Bus riders and drivers say the the cuts have been rough. 2:29 p.m.

COMMENTARY | Terrence Mercer

The tone-deaf parting shots of Hasbro’s CEO reflect corporate myopia

As Hasbro prepares to pull nearly 600 jobs out blue-collar Pawtucket, CEO Chris Cocks couldn’t just go quietly, instead choosing to very publicly spit on our city on his way out, writes the Pawtucket City Council president. 1:41 p.m.

The roller coaster at Rocky Point amusement park in Warwick, R.I., in 1995.

One R.I. mom’s mission to bring the iconic Rocky Point roller coaster back home

The Corkscrew ride was closed when the Warwick park shut down in 1995. But when Chantelle Croft found out the old coaster was for sale, she started a campaign to buy it. 7:34 a.m.

COLUMN | DAN MCGOWAN

A Mr. Potato Head statue outside the Hasbro Inc. headquarters in Pawtucket, R.I.

Hasbro’s classless exit from Pawtucket

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks is offering a reminder that you can upgrade your address, but to paraphrase Jay-Z, you can’t buy class. 1:45 p.m.

RI HOUSING

A view of houses in Waltham, Mass., in 2023.

Town by town, here’s what Rhode Islanders need to earn to affordably buy a home

With the cost of housing figuring prominently in the governor's race and the Providence mayoral race, a new report from HousingWorks RI shows the annual income Rhode Island households need to earn to affordably buy a home. 9:53 a.m.