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January 22, 2008

Update: Governor to deliver State of the State tonight

PROVIDENCE — With state government facing a sea of red ink, Governor Carcieri will stand before a joint session of the House and Senate at 7 tonight and deliver what could be his bleakest State of the State address yet.

Yesterday, his spokesman Jeff Neal said the governor “is expected to focus his remarks on the short- and long-term fiscal challenges confronting state government” and “discuss the broad outlines of the difficult decisions necessary to balance the budget deficit in the current and coming fiscal years [FY 2008 and 2009].

Both the governor’s speech and the Democrats’ response will be aired live by Capitol Television, the broadcast arm of the General Assembly, on Statewide Interconnect C which is Channel 15 for both Cox Communications and Full Channel, and Channel 34 on Verizon.

The address is also expected to be broadcast live on television by WJAR-TV (Channel 10) and WPRI-TV (Channel 12), and on radio by WPRO 630 AM, WHJJ 920 AM and WRNI 1290 AM. WPRI, a Journal/projo.com partner, also plans to Webcast it on its site, wpri.com.

Projo.com aims to publish an advance copy of the governor's speech, expected to be available around the time of its scheduled start.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this item incorrectly gave the channel number for the speech's broadcast on Verizon. The correct channel is 34.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 3:08 PM | Permalink

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