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May 2007 Archives
1:47 PM Thu, May 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
The Web site of Congressional Quarterly has come out today with an analysis of a dozen U.S. Senate races next year in which Democrats will be trying to keep their jobs. And Rhode Island should easily go Republican. Just kidding.......
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9:21 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The state Republican Party fundraising machine is “firing on all cylinders,” party Chairman Giovanni Cicione tells Political Scene. “I wasn’t comfortable walking in the door and asking for money right away,” said Cicione, who officially took over for Patricia Morgan......
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9:20 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
News flash: Steve Laffey and Patricia Morgan are on the same team. Literally. The former Cranston mayor and the former state GOP chairwoman who backed incumbent Lincoln D. Chafee over Laffey in last fall’s heated Republican primary race for the......
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9:18 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of Steve Laffey: he really is back on the political circuit. He was billed as the “special guest” at the joint fundraiser the Narragansett and South Kingstown Republican town committees held at the Canochet Beach Club last Thursday —......
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9:17 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s not often that political battles involve weapons these days. But they broke out the baseball bats this weekend as Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline’s posse took on city Republican Party Chairman Dave Talan’s crew. It’s safe to say, however,......
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9:16 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Political junkies can learn a little bit about legislators’ and lobbyists’ music tastes at an event Friday. The “Rock the Boat” fundraiser for the advocacy group Ocean State Action will give political types, including two lawmakers, slots as guest DJs.......
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9:14 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Darlene Leyden Walsh is the new finance director for the state judiciary. She replaces Robert A. Sieczkiewicz, who retired Dec. 22. Walsh, 41, of North Kingstown, will oversee the judiciary’s financial and budgetary operations, making $100,602 a year, with longevity......
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9:13 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
As House members prepared to vote last Tuesday on a resolution to discourage the use of trans fats in Rhode Island restaurant food, they found something peculiar. Logging into their computers to read the text of the bill, they found......
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9:12 AM Tue, May 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
State Rep. Joseph N. Amaral, R-Tiverton, is also a school principal — and now it’s official. Amaral served as the interim principal of Portsmouth Middle School this school year. Last Tuesday, the Portsmouth School Committee confirmed his appointment as principal,......
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12:03 PM Thu, May 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The owner of Pot au Feu today joked that he was sitting with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani smoking cigars and drinking cognac. But those who know Bob Burke would know his policy about sharing stories......
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9:17 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The e-mail wasn’t supposed to be an endorsement. So, the subject heading, “Help Romney for President,” and the large color picture of Mitt Romney and his wife adjacent to the phrase, “Mitt Needs You, America Needs You,” may have been......
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9:16 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Ah, the joys of the permanent campaign. Just about every candidate looking for publicity and/or money has lighted on Rhode Island this year. Among those stopping in over the next week or so: John Edwards, who is speaking at Portsmouth’s......
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9:15 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The State House equivalent of the high school yearbook was released last week. The secretary of state’s office received the first 1,000 copies of the 2007-08 edition of the Rhode Island Government Owner’s Manual. The book contains all manner of......
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9:13 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
On that note, here’s another argument for going online to view the guidebook: It’s already out of date. The government manual lists state Sen. Juan M. Pichardo, D-Providence, and his wife, Janet, as having two children, Cristian and Tiffanie. But......
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9:12 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Most state employees who quit don’t have Senate resolutions read in their honor. But Carl Parmenter is not like most state employees, according to the host of senators who said goodbye to the 22-year-old Senate staffer last Wednesday. Parmenter, who......
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9:10 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
For anyone wondering about the back story behind the General Assembly resolution asking the World Health Organization to grant Taiwan observer status … The resolution stems from a trip state Sen. William A. Walaska made to the island nation —......
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9:09 AM Mon, May 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri was one of three governors to participate in a summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month on preventing students from dropping out of school. Along with New Hampshire’s John Lynch and North Carolina’s Mike Easley, Carcieri participated in......
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6:59 PM Fri, May 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Island’s congressional delegation -- Democrats all -- are cautiously optimistic about the agreement that would overhaul immigration laws to provide the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States with a path to permanent legal status......
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11:23 AM Mon, May 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A seating change may have restored harmony in the House. Rep. Anastasia P. Williams has spent most of this legislative session standing at the back of the House chamber, rather than sitting in her assigned seat. Williams denies the rumor......
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11:22 AM Mon, May 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Is he or isn’t he? The “he” would be Ted Kennedy Jr. And the question would be the hardy perennial standard for any Kennedy in the private sector: Running for public office? Reports in recent editions of the Boston Herald......
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11:21 AM Mon, May 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Just for the record, the voting age in Rhode Island — and everywhere else in the United States — is 18. There was some confusion about this matter on the House floor last Tuesday. As lawmakers discussed a bill by......
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5:55 PM Tue, May 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
This war of words wages on. The chairman of the Rhode Island Democrats today called on Governor Carcieri to explain "why he has allowed" the private firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin to "bilk taxpayers out of tens of thousands of dollars"......
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9:24 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Nick-a-Nees, the cinder-block bunker of a bar in Providence’s Jewelry District, is known for its friendly bartenders, an unadorned, dog-friendly ambience and a come-as-you-are, casual clientele. But last Thursday evening, Nick’s, as it is affectionately known, was the scene of......
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9:23 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Bill Clinton is coming back to what he always calls one of his favorite states — Rhode Island — on June 6 to raise money for the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York. He will......
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9:21 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Perhaps the biggest cliché in politics is the term “flip-flop.” Every candidate seems to accuse his or her opponent of flip-flopping every time there is a change in a policy or political position. Is “foolish consistency,” in the immortal words......
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9:20 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. Peter G. Palumbo, D-Cranston, introduced a bill the other week to create what must be the longest name for a legislative study commission in state history. So as not to waste too much ink, we’ll print the name in......
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9:19 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
After only a few months in the U.S. Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse has already won a gavel — ceremonial, to be sure, but a gavel all the same. During a brief exchange after he addressed a classroom full of Georgetown University......
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9:17 AM Mon, May 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The deputy chief of U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin’s Rhode Island offices is soon to be off to the private sector. Tim Del Giudice, who has served the voters of the 2nd District since Bob Weygand represented them, will move on......
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