GA session’s late ending demands R.I. voters do their part in fall

MARATHON  SESSIONS: House and Senate lawmakers went late into the night before finally passing a fiscal 2017 state budget earlier this month. / PBN PHOTO/ ELI SHERMAN
MARATHON SESSIONS: House and Senate lawmakers went late into the night before finally passing a fiscal 2017 state budget earlier this month. / PBN PHOTO/ ELI SHERMAN

Another budget season, another late night/early morning at the Statehouse. What did we learn? n Business-friendly programs proposed by the governor were retained (or augmented), from dropping the minimum corporate tax to $400 from $450, to cutting employers’ unemployment insurance taxes, to increasing funding for the Rebuild Rhode Island tax credit program, among a number

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