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December 2006 Archives
6:45 PM Fri, Dec 29, 2006 | Permalink |
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Civic journalism in Rhode Island will take a new twist next week when the 110th U.S. Congress convenes. In a move they deem "an unprecedented act of Web-based collaboration," three of Rhode Island's most popular blogs plan to pool their......
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12:42 PM Wed, Dec 27, 2006 | Permalink |
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Journal file photo Then Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. with former President Gerald Ford in 1977. President Ford, who died yesterday, was "very friendly with Buddy Cianci," recalls former Rhode Island Congressman Edward P. Beard. As mayor of......
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2:21 PM Tue, Dec 26, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Since Stephen P. Laffey was defeated in the Republican U.S. Senate primary against Lincoln D. Chafee, he has made himself scarce, at least by his standards. But his apparent retreat from public view does not signal an imminent exodus from......
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7:20 PM Thu, Dec 21, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The lopsided Democratic advantage in Rhode Island's General Assembly just got a little bigger. Rep. Joseph Scott, Dist. 39, says he's leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat when the House reconvenes next month. His impending departure......
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6:28 PM Wed, Dec 20, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island Republicans are looking for a new party leader. There's no salary, not many candidates to oversee and lots of money that needs to be raised. Political observers say the job can be a tough sell in......
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6:24 PM Tue, Dec 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The release of Governor Carcieri's daily schedule generally doesn't make news. But it did today. Tomorrow from 5 to 5:45 p.m., Carcieri is scheduled to sit down with Lt. Gov.-elect Elizabeth Roberts. It certainly won't be an introductory......
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3:54 PM Tue, Dec 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Senator-elect Sheldon Whitehouse has announced four top staffers as he prepares the transition to Washington in the coming weeks. Whitehouse, who ousted the Republican incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee in November, will be sworn into office in early January. His campaign......
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11:48 AM Tue, Dec 19, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Besides a gift for gab, Sen. Lincoln Chafee's spokeswoman and former radio personality Debbie Rich has a gift in the kitchen. Each year she bakes hundreds of batches of chocolate chip cookies -- with and without macadamia nuts -- and......
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5:32 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
FALL RIVER, Mass. — The high-profile University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth researcher known for a study used to promote the ill-fated Harrah’s-Narragansett Indian casino has had charges of witness intimidation and assault and battery dismissed in District Court. A third charge against......
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1:32 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union has named state Rep. Edith H. Ajello the Raymond J. Pettine Civil Libertarian of the Year for her legislative record on civil liberties issues. And the ACLU has given its......
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1:31 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council has named a new director of policy: Susanne Greschner, previously RIPEC’s director of research. Technically, Greschner’s new title will be director of policy and research. Greschner holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from......
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1:30 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Interviews are under way for the spring 2007 State Government Internship Program. The spring session for interns begins the first week of February and continues through the end of April. Placements are available with the General Assembly and elsewhere across......
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1:26 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
In the age of sound bites and nano-scale attention spans, 30-second TV ads are the norm and some spots are as short as 15 seconds. People occasionally run one-minute ads, but two minutes? Almost never. But that’s just what North......
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1:20 PM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
After 18 years as executive director of Common Cause of Rhode Island, H. Philip West retired last month. Although his name may be gone from the payroll, the good-government group is nevertheless keeping West around in a figurative sense: Common......
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4:00 PM Fri, Dec 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Elizabeth Roberts, who will take over the lieutenant governor post on Jan. 2, has named two top staffers. Jennifer Wood, chief of staff and chief legal counsel to commissioner of elementary and secondary education, will serve as general......
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3:59 PM Fri, Dec 15, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Patricia Morgan said today that she won't seek another term as the head of the state Republican Party. "I really have enjoyed being a chairman," Morgan said, noting that she believes she's the longest-serving GOP leader in state history. "It's......
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12:58 PM Wed, Dec 13, 2006 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- With less than a month left in his term as a U.S. senator, Lincoln Chafee will meet this afternoon with the Democrat who cost him his job. Chafee and Senator-elect Sheldon Whitehouse plan to hold a transition meeting......
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3:38 PM Tue, Dec 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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Under Rhode Island's Constitution, the Secretary of State swears in the governor at inagurations. But this year, Governor Carcieri's office has been informed that outgoing Secretary of State Matt Brown will not be available to swear in Carcieri because Brown......
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2:42 PM Tue, Dec 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
James "Ted'' Long, former legal counsel and staffer for Sen. Jack Reed, has been named to head the transition team for Lt. Gov.-elect Elizabeth Roberts of Cranston. Long, a Westerly native who is a lawyer for the Providence firm of......
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2:34 PM Tue, Dec 12, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Senator-elect Sheldon Whitehouse has plenty of people to thank. Nearly 200,000 Rhode Islanders turned out at the polls Nov. 7 and picked the Democrat over the popular incumbent, U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. To express his gratitude, Whitehouse will......
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7:56 AM Mon, Dec 11, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
At a time when financial constraints have forced other arms of state government to talk about widespread layoffs, the closing of group homes and the release of hundreds of prisoners, General Assembly leaders are proposing a 14-percent increase in their......
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6:49 PM Wed, Dec 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Democrat, vigorously campaigned against Rhode Island's junior senator, a Republican, for nearly a year. But today, about a month after his campaigning proved successful, Reed took the Senate floor to pay tribute to U.S. Sen.......
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6:42 PM Wed, Dec 06, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed says a high-profile report critical of President Bush's policy in Iraq makes "a significant contribution to the debate," and he predicts bipartisan support for the report's recommendations. “Now it is up to the president to use......
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7:16 PM Tue, Dec 05, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The U.S. Capitol will be buzzing tomorrow, as two high-profile events are expected to take place at virtually the same time. And U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will be in the middle of both. The Rhode Island legislator, who has emerged......
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3:39 PM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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Lincoln Chafee learned today that he won what may be his final political battle as a United States senator. With less than a month to go in his congressional career, the senator learned today that his efforts to block the......
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11:23 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s not just politicians who are changing offices in this post-election season. When the legislature convenes again next month, expect to see a few new faces from those who lobby our state’s leaders. A few examples: After 16 years as......
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11:22 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Last week, Political Scene informed its loyal readers that the Christmas tree in the State House rotunda would be an artificial tree, to avoid last year’s embarrassment when a real tree -- coated with fire retardant chemicals -- dropped its......
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11:20 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of Christmas trees, the state’s new building code commissioner knows a thing or two about them. John P. Leyden, who most recently was building official for the Town of North Kingstown, started the $78,537-a-year state job Oct. 16. He......
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11:19 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Mystery solved. Close followers of the Chafee-Whitehouse U.S. Senate contest will recall having seen a man in a President Bush mask and a flight suit -- evocative of the president’s famous “mission-accomplished” moment -- in the background at U.S. Sen.......
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11:17 AM Mon, Dec 04, 2006 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
’Tis the season at the State House. House Speaker William Murphy, D-West Warwick, and Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano, D-North Providence, and their leadership teams are holding a holiday reception in the State reception room Wednesday between 5 and 7......
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