Rhode Island voters will be asked next month to approve a $70 million bond issue – with a total cost of $112 million – for improvements to the port of Davisville at Quonset, as well as land acquisition to expand ProvPort, which is running out of space along the Providence waterfront. This week Jim Hummel takes a closer look at the proposal and checks in with Save the Bay, which had some initial concerns about the General Assembly’s handling of the legislation paving the way for the November referendum.
