I read through cases at Portland’s Rent Board, where one landlord tried to get around the rent control limits by charging a tenant $310 a month to use the porch attached to their unit (the rent board sided with the tenant, and said that counts as rent)

The biggest lament from landlords in Portland is that when a tenant leaves, they can only raise rent on the unit by 5%; they want to be able to price vacant units at market so it’s worth renovating them. But their effort to get voters to agree was trounced in a 2023 referendum

Police and residents in East Providence, R.I., are mourning the loss of retired K9, Chiko, who died Friday night, according to officials. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/met…

RI AFL-CIO sues Trump’s EPA over termination of $7B Solar for All program “The Solar for All program is critical to meeting the mandates of the Act on Climate and could lead to hundreds of good-paying union jobs,” RI AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley said. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/met…

Consultant’s report recommends creating medical school at URI. “RI is facing an acute shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care, as the state grapples with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in New England” report says bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/met…

Rep. Bob Craven has resigned as House Judiciary chair, days after he dropped out of the race for AG amid renewed scrutiny of past domestic violence incidents He will stay in his House seat but will not seek re-election, Craven said bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/met…

Thanks to Matt Allen for inviting me on NewsTalk 99.7 & AM 630 WPRO yesterday to talk about my reporting on rent control omny.fm/shows/the-matt… Story: bostonglobe.com/2025/10/05/met…

RI’s 2026 race for attorney general is in a state of flux. In the past week, Rep. Bob Craven has dropped out, Keith Hoffmann and Jason Knight have jumped in, while Joe Solomon, Kim Ahern, and Charles Calenda are mulling a run bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/met… via The Boston Globe

NEW: Ieva Jusionyte, a Brown University professor, said she plans to use the award to fund research for her new book, which will focus on the practice of extraditing organized crime leaders from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the US. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/met…

NEW from me: At R.I.’s ‘Conjuring’ house, a new fear for the paranormal community: Losing it entirely bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/met…

Here are the key changes related to Providence police interactions with ICE that are up for a vote next week: bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/met…

If Rhode Island Republicans used taxpayer money to send staffers to CPAC, this would be a giant scandal. golocalprov.com/news/providenc…

NEW: ‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education w/ Steph Machado for The Boston Globe Boston Globe Rhode Island bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/met… via The Boston Globe

While it’s not common at the State House, at Providence City Hall members of the mayor’s administration are routinely placed under oath before taking questions from city councilors at regular meetings

School officials in Smithfield, R.I. are investigating “a reported recent incident involving alleged hazing and antisemitic remarks connected to students on the Smithfield High School football team,” district administrators told families on Thursday. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/met…

NEW: The Trump administration recently cut funding to Rhode Island for special education teacher training, part of the ongoing effort to root out DEI "The word ‘diversity’ has been weaponized in such a way that it’s become a political grenade." bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/met…

BREAKING: Brown University President Christina H. Paxson sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday, rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that the school sign a compact in exchange for preferential treatment. STORY: bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/met…

NEW: RI just released a new special education plan as uncertainty swirls in Washington over funding cuts and potential mass layoffs in special ed, now temporarily halted by a judge "We’re all in the dark. We don’t know what any of this means for us.” bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/met…

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island will cut a health plan serving 275 of the company’s retirees and their spouses as the state’s largest health insurer attempts to shore up its finances. bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/met…

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/bus…