There’s no truth to the rumor that the tax on paparazzi for Taylor Swift’s wedding will go to wipe out a budget deficit in Rhode Island. Welcome back to my Friday column. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky , threads and X . Here we go.

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1. STORY OF THE WEEK: Controversy marked the evolution of Rhode Island’s wind industry from the start. The state’s last GOP governor, Don Carcieri , pointed to a plentiful natural resource off the Atlantic Coast — “ the Saudi Arabia of wind ” — as a way to cash in, create jobs and lower energy prices with a forward-looking sector. But in 2010, critics groused that the regulatory process was sped through the General Assembly, some questioned a possible l

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