[Summit] Fw: WPRI.com Daily Roundup -- State Budget Gap + Summer Camp + Mail Ballots + Legal Challenge to Exec. Orders [Covid News no. 241]

Sun May 17 01:22:32 UTC 2020

 This information [which hit my in-box in the wee hours of Saturday] is still useful, although it’s basically from Friday morning (covering Thursday’s breaking news).  
However, if you click one of the links to a particular story on WPRI’s web site, the version you see is, naturally, likely to be far more up to date.

Have a good weekend,
Dave

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: WPRI.com | WPRI 12 Eyewitness News <wpri at publisher-news.com>To:Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020, 01:07:31 PM EDTSubject: WPRI.com Daily Roundup // House Finance Committee to discuss federal relief efforts; RI faces $800M deficit (15 May 2020)
 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — 'Brutal' and 'inevitable' are two words Gov. Gina Raimondo is using to describe budget cuts she says are going to have to be made.The House Finance Committee will meet Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Rhode Island State House for a briefing on federal relief efforts and revenue for the month of May.Raimondo says Rhode Island has accrued an $800 million deficit. As of now, the state has avoided furloughing state employees, but she doesn't know how much longer that will last.The governor says she has been working to avoid layoffs by using employees to help the state combat the crisis. She adds the state will have to ensure creative, structural changes in an effort to bounce back."This budget is going to be brutal. I don't know where we are going to find $800 million," Raimondo said. "Everyone is going to be unhappy. Everything is on the table. Everything," she repeated, driving home the point."You can't fill an $800 million hole."So far, Rhode Island has received over $1 billion in federal aid; federal officials have told Raimondo more could be on the way.
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| House Finance Committee to discuss federal relief efforts; RI faces $800M deficit   |
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| PROVIDENCE, R. I. (WPRI) — 'Brutal' and 'inevitable' are two words Gov. Gina Raimondo is using to describe budget cuts she says are going to have to be made. The House Finance Committee will meet Thursday at 4 p. m. at the Rhode Island State House for a briefing on federal relief efforts and... |

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| With opening still a possibility, summer camp organizers remain hopeful   |
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| PROVIDENCE, R. I. (WPRI) ─ It looks like summer camp may still be on the table in Rhode Island. Gov. Gina Raimondo announced Thursday that the state hopes to have summer camps open by June 29, but that's dependent on how well the state is handling the virus. It's exciting news for Laura Stiles... |

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| PROVIDENCE, R. I. (WPRI) -- Rhode Island's Secretary of State is urging voters to vote by mail ballot in the upcoming presidential primary election. The 2020 presidential primary in Rhode Island is June 2, postponed from April 28 after Gov. Gina Raimondo approved the Board of Election's request... |

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| Retired RI Supreme Court justice questions Raimondo’s use of executive orders   |
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| PROVIDENCE, R. I. (WPRI) -- A retired R. I. Supreme Court justice expects lawsuits from business owners and others challenging Gov. Gina Raimondo's COVID-19 executive orders and whether she followed the law as she wielded that power over the last two months. Robert Flanders, who served on the... |

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| ‘We’ve got our work cut out for us’: RI lawmakers tackle $800M budget gap   |
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| Meeting for the first time in two months, the House Finance Committee received a grim update on the state budget picture amid the coronavirus pandemic. |

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| 17 residents and 28 employees have tested positive at the nursing home for wartime veterans. At least four residents have died. |

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| Massachusetts on Saturday reported 113 additional deaths due to the coronavirus, while the number of cases rose by 1,512.

Meanwhile, the state’s seven-day rolling average of positive tests, a figure closely watched by health officials, remained at 12 percent of all tests given, according to data released by the Department of Public Health.

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