Voters in Freetown overwhelmingly voted against a nonbinding referendum regarding the $167 million casino off Route 140 proposed by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, according to the Taunton Daily Gazette. more

As state revenue improves, Rhode Island should move towards an investment-based agenda, according to a R.I. Public Expenditure Council report released Wednesday. more

PROVIDENCE – Beleaguered video game company 38 Studios LLC last week declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, as a formal investigation of the company began. more

Ten developers are interested in building wind farms off the coast of Massachusetts. According to the Boston Globe, these farms could generate nearly 10 times more energy than the the long-stalled Cape Wind project. more

The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce has pulled out of a planned partnership with the R.I. Economic Development Corporation to lure out-of-state, knowledge-based companies to … more

Rhode Island ranked No. 32 across the nation for economic growth during 2011, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. more

A construction materials company president, bank executive and union business manager are Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s latest nominees to the R.I. Economic Development Corporation board of directors. more

Steven Lohrenz was recently elected to the Consortium for Ocean Leadership’s board of trustees. Lohrenz is the dean of the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has held the position since January 2011, and previously served as chair of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Department of Marine Science. Lohrenz earned his Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. more

If you are a believer in the power of the Knowledge Economy to transform Rhode Island, the past few weeks have been unsettling. more

A “moral hazard” is defined as a lack of incentive to guard against risk where one is protected from its consequences. more