Providence, RI - Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee and First Lady Stephanie Chafee will host the annual State House holiday tree lighting in the State House Rotunda on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. All Rhode Islanders are invited to attend and see the 17-foot Colorado Blue Spruce lit...
Providence, RI – Rhode Island Governor Lincoln D. Chafee signed the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011 into law this afternoon at the Rhode Island State House.
"This legislation demonstrates to the rest of the country that Rhode Island is serious about getting its fiscal house in...
Providence, RI - Rhode Island Governor Lincoln D. Chafee announced today that state Department of Revenue (DOR) Director Rosemary Booth Gallogly has appointed Major Stephen M. Bannon, Chief Administrative Officer of the Rhode Island State Police, as fiscal overseer for the City of East Providence....
Providence, RI - Governor Lincoln D. Chafee will travel to New York, NY tomorrow, Thursday, November 3, 2011 to meet with New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomerg.
"I am pleased to meet once again with my fellow independent, Mayor Bloomberg," Governor Chafee said. "As a former Mayor, I...
Providence, RI - Governor Lincoln Chafee and Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit today awarded $4.3 million in local open space matching grants to 15 communities, land trusts, and conservation organizations that will protect 900 acres of open space and farmland throughout...
Providence, RI - In his latest effort to speak to more Rhode Islanders directly about the important issue of comprehensive pension reform, Governor Lincoln D. Chafee today released a web video drawing on segments of his speech before a joint session of the Rhode Island General Assembly on October...
Providence, RI - Governor Lincoln D. Chafee announced today that he will postpone a planned November trade mission to Israel in order to stay in Rhode Island during the General Assembly's special session on pension reform. The trip will be rescheduled for a date in the near future.
"While I was...
Providence, RI - Governor Lincoln D. Chafee will testify before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Finance Committees today, Monday, October 24, 2011.
The State House hearing has been called to review the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011 (RIRSA), the comprehensive pension...
Providence, RI – The State of Rhode Island recently applied for a grant totaling $74.5 million to fund the development, design, and technology procurement of its Health Benefit Exchange. The exchange, established by Executive Order 11-09, will function as an online marketplace for health...
Providence, RI – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in a letter to Governor Lincoln D. Chafee, has formally issued a Secretarial Agricultural Disaster Designation for all Rhode Island counties for damage incurred during Tropical Storm Irene.
Governor Chafee had requested the declaration in a...
