Highlights From the Rhode Island General Assembly: Week in Review (May 27–May 30) - Newport Buzz

Highlights from the Rhode Island General Assembly: Week in Review (May 27–May 30) - Newport Buzz

Newport Buzz Highlights from the Rhode Island General Assembly: Week in Review (May 27–May 30) Rhode Island’s General Assembly advanced a wide range of legislation this week, tackling issues from overdose prevention and public safety to tax reform and environmental alternatives for end-of-life care. Here are the key highlights: Lifeguards, Rangers to Receive Narcan TrainingA bill requiring full-time lifeguards and park rangers at public faciliti…

Newport Property Commission Approves Final Report - Newport This Week

Newport’s ad-hoc Bridge Re­alignment Property Advisory Com­mission unanimously approved its final report to the city council at a May 27 meeting. The commission will now likely disband. The main idea of the commis­sion’s final report is that a singular entity, whether it be the city, state, or a combination thereof, will need to be created to make decisions re­garding the future of the property freed up by the Rhode Island De­partment of Transpo…