Government
Town-Gown Tiff of the Day: Brown Versus Providence
The city says the university should shoulder more of its huge budget shortfall.
You know what they say about the road to hell? Well, Brown University may be getting a close look at all that pavement the hard way.
Providence has asked Brown University, whose endowment topped $2.5 billion last year, to boost its voluntary tax payments. The University has been paying $1 million a year since 2003, when the mayor said the city was about to run out of cash. The mayor would like to up that by $4 million, to $5 million a year.*