RI Progress Report: Congrats to Tear and Ryherd

Congratulations to Allan Tear and Soren Ryherd, who will each be awarded innovation fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. The two entrepreneurs will receive grants for $300,000 over the next three years for their winning projects that will – hopefully – help revitalize Rhode Island’s struggling economy.

David Cicilline apologizes for misleading voters about the fiscal stability of the Capital City as the former mayor ran for Congress in 2010.

A lawyer for Google said Rhode Island’s US Attorney Peter Neronha had gone “off the reservation” when he accused CEO and search engine co-founder Larry Page of knowing about illegal activity by the internet behemoth.

Welcome to the Buffett Rule beat, Dan McGowan! Also today, the New York Times editorial board weighs in on Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s bill.

This just in: “Hundreds of nurses and their fellow union members at Women & Infants Hospital are picketing today and calling on Hospital administrators to improve staffing levels by lifting a months-long hiring freeze and hiring local nurses for permanent positions – instead of staffing with temporary, subcontracted “traveler” nurses as proposed.”

The CRMC sided with the Ocean Mist and several environmental groups and didn’t allow South Kingstown to construct a steel wall between the beach and Matunuck Beach Road.

Newt Gingrich bounces a check to Utah.

One of the weirder things about the deal Bob Flanders struck with Central Falls retirees is that it required the General Assembly to sign off on a $2.6 million bailout to the retired employees who had their pensions cut.

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