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Rhode Island's published Medicaid fee-for-service rates for primary care are now higher than those in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire, according to a rate review the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner submitted on September 1. Vermont's enhanced primary-care rate remains higher than Rhode Island's, at roughly 110% of it. The day after the report landed, Gov.

The Hopkinton Town Council voted Tuesday afternoon to adopt an emergency ordinance temporarily barring data center applications and construction in town. The vote came at a special meeting called for that single purpose, and the ordinance takes effect immediately upon passage. According to the Hopkinton Town Council's published meeting recording, the moratorium was adopted under Section 3220 of the town's home rule charter.

The North Providence Town Council on Tuesday voted by voice vote to direct town staff to issue a stop-work order on a self-storage building under construction on Douglas Avenue, saying what has been built does not match the plans the council approved when it changed the zone in 2017, according to the town council's published meeting recording. The motion also directs the town's lawyers to review the matter.

The Scituate School Committee voted Tuesday to submit a Stage 1 application to the Rhode Island Department of Education and to approve surveys documenting the district's school construction needs, minutes after a parent described classrooms at Hope Elementary School reaching 85 degrees with only box fans for relief.

The Jamestown Planning Commission approved a rear addition and front porch enclosure at a single-family house on Southwest Avenue on Tuesday evening, but added a condition requiring wood siding rather than plastic products, according to the Jamestown Planning Commission's published meeting recording. The vote was 7-0 by roll call.

About 100 Scituate students — roughly 8% to 10% of the district's approximately 1,200 bus riders — were affected by routing problems when schools opened on August 25, the school department's finance official told the School Committee on Tuesday, September 1. "Our performance, I will admit, did not meet expectations," Rob Baxter said during the finance report, according to the Scituate School Committee's published meeting recording.

The order Judge Leonie Brinkema signed yesterday in the Eastern District of Virginia is brief, and it settles the biggest question in the government's advertising-technology case against Google: no forced sale. The Justice Department had asked her to make Google divest AdX, the ad exchange at the center of its display-advertising business.

Page 76 of a 107-page complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday quotes an insurance commercial. State Farm's "Halfway There" campaign, the county's lawyers write, sold the company as the insurer that "makes things right" while a fictional competitor bungled the job. Los Angeles County alleges that after the January 2025 Eaton and Palisades fires, some State Farm policyholders got the version the ads were mocking.

The Richmond Town Council voted by voice to continue a developer's drainage easement request to its Oct. 6 meeting after a council member pressed the applicant's representatives on the fact that the neighboring homeowner had not been told about the plan. The request, taken up under new business, involves a vacant corner lot in a subdivision platted in 1966.

The Westerly School Committee on Wednesday, September 2, tabled a second reading of its teacher-student-parent electronic communications policy, reported an executive-session vote to pay stipends to administrators taking on extra duties until an interim superintendent is named, and heard a member say a newly installed elementary school playground has no wheelchair access.