Providence Journal: ‘Everybody wants money’: RI lawmakers overwhelmed with requests for share of federal aid

October 18, 2021

Days away from the start of State House hearings on the ways Gov. Dan McKee wants to spend the first big chunk of Rhode Island’s $1.1-billion federal windfall, state lawmakers have been barraged with competing requests. “Nursing homes want several hundred million dollars. URI wants a quarter of a billion dollars,” House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi said…

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