If the ‘Taylor Swift tax’ is getting you down, you can snap up a Wyoming ranch bigger than Rhode Island for a cool $79.5 million. 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: If the Washington Bridge is one subtext for next year’s statewide election in Rhode Island, the overall state of the economy is a political evergreen. Now, with uncertainty about fallout from President Trump ’s tariffs, there are growing signs of worsening conditions in the Ocean State. As the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council noted this week , the state’s labor force participation rate fell for the fourth consecutive quarter, t

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