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State lawmakers approved a bill that is key to Mayor Brett Smiley’s controversial $624 million budget proposal ahead of the ...
The two cities’ mayors argued the $19 million project would be a boon to economic development and the waterfront.
Mayor Brett Smiley and other local officials revealed the Providence Rink's new fabric shade on Tuesday. (WLNE)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Mayor Brett Smiley and other local officials revealed the ...
The House Committee on Municipal Government and Housing will meet after the rise of the House on Tuesday to vote on several bills, including one that would allow for a one-year increase to property ...
After spending a week in Israel, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley has returned home to the capitol city, and was met Thursday ...
Mayor Brett Smiley said he wasn’t happy that Providence City Councilors will be raising the Palestinian flag at City Hall on ...
Tensions between City Council members, and between councilors and the mayor, played out over several days before the flag ...
More than a dozen community members held signs, chanted and drummed outside Mayor Brett Smiley’s home early Thursday morning.
Providence isn’t the only American city to have flown the flag. Last November, the city hall of Hoboken, New Jersey also ...
On Thursday, during a Providence City Council Meeting the issue was addressed. Counselors James Taylor and Helen Anthony ...
On Sunday, April 27, 2025, the Armenian Martyrs’ Memorial Committee of Rhode Island commemorated the 110th anniversary of the ...
Mayor Brett Smiley said that he would not have chosen to raise the flag himself out of fear that it would isolate Jewish residents. “My office does not have the authority to prevent a separate ...