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June 2007 Archives
12:19 PM Fri, Jun 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry  Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri last night vetoed high-profile legislation that would prohibit mandatory overtime for hospital nurses and nurse's assistants. "This bill addresses issues that should be negotiated through the collective bargaining process," Carcieri states in his veto message. Carcieri......
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3:06 PM Thu, Jun 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Bill Murphy President Bush is greeted by Governor Carcieri, a fellow Republican, and his wife, Sue, upon his arrival at Quonset Point this morning. Bush was in Rhode Island to speak to military officials and global......
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2:52 PM Thu, Jun 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
In the midst of President Bush’s first visit to Rhode Island during his presidency, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has just announced yet another endorsement from a Rhode Island politician – Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis. “As our......
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6:31 PM Tue, Jun 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
On the same day President Bush is reportedly speaking at the Naval War College in Newport, Governor Carcieri is hosting a fund-raiser in the City by the Sea for the Republican Governors Association, which finances Republican campaigns for governor across......
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6:34 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In the deliberative fashion fitting for a Supreme Court justice, Frank J. Williams, chief justice of Rhode Island’s highest court, waited a week before responding to incendiary comments Providence lawyer Keven A. McKenna made about him during a June 14......
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6:34 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The pen was already on the table next to Governor Carcieri’s veto message when he sat down. It was not a special “veto pen,” according to the governor’s staff. The executive office has several plastic A.T. Cross pens that bear......
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6:33 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline is about to become a member of the Democratic National Committee. Cicilline gets the post by virtue of his election as vice president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. Other members of the mayors’......
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6:32 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
If there were ever a sign your bill was dead … A bill on pet neglect from Rep. Peter L. Lewiss, D-Westerly, was placed on the House calendar in April but was repeatedly pushed back by a day or a......
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6:31 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Secretaries of the state Senate, former secretaries of the Senate, clerks elected by the membership of the General Assembly, and former clerks will be eligible to preside at weddings if a bill approved by the General Assembly last week becomes......
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6:30 PM Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Congressman Jim Langevin has named a Democrat familiar in Rhode Island and national political circles as his chief campaign fundraiser for 2008. The Democrat, a Warwick resident, announced last week that Donald R. Sweitzer, senior vice president at GTECH, will......
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6:20 PM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
President Bush will be in Rhode Island this coming Thursday -- his first visit to the state of his presidency -- a White House spokesman confirmed for the first time today. The spokesman would not say yet whether the president's......
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1:56 PM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has no 2008 opponent in sight, but as is his custom, the Democrat is taking no chances when it comes to raising campaign money. On Sunday, Robert E. Rubin, President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary, and Terry......
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10:49 AM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
PROVIDENCE – The General Assembly has approved legislation to close a loophole in the state’s “Peeping Tom” law and to require all school districts in the state to provide dating violence education for middle and high school students. The changes......
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10:01 AM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved an amendment by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., to prevent American trophy hunters from killing polar bears abroad and bringing their heads and hides back to the United States, Reed's office said. Reed’s legislation......
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9:05 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
With all the news swirling around the state Department of Transportation these days, its new director, Jerome Williams, is hoping a new Customer Service Office will help the agency’s public image. Most of the buzz so far has centered on......
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9:03 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
On the subject of DOT, the state transportation agency has lined up its interns for the summer and there are a number of familiar last names there too, though agency spokeswoman Dana Alexander Nolfe said the department does not, as......
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9:02 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Sometimes you just can’t make up your mind. The state Senate last week passed resolutions allowing for four dates for adjournment. House Speaker William J. Murphy says he is aiming to finish this year’s business on Friday, although the legislature......
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8:59 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Journal photo / Connie Grosch Amid their hectic week, lawmakers paused on Wednesday to honor state Sen. June N. Gibbs on the occasion of her 85th birthday. The appropriately named Gibbs was born June 13, 1922. She is the......
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8:55 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Gibbs wasn’t the only one who had a birthday last week. House Finance Chairman Steven M. Costantino turned 50 on Saturday, and he spent the first two hours of his birthday in the House chamber, at the tail end of......
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8:54 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. Grace Diaz, D-Providence, is not the first state lawmaker to be offered a job by a group that gets legislative grant money. But she is in the small but growing number asking the Ethics Commission for advice before saying......
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8:53 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Perhaps Providence lawyer Keven A. McKenna has never heard the childhood adage: You get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. For when he spoke Thursday at the House Finance Committee against a plan to authorize Supreme Court......
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8:50 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Albert E. DeRobbio, chief judge of the state District Court and also the judge in charge of the Traffic Tribunal, had a busy day at the State House Thursday. After testifying before the House Finance Committee against proposed changes to......
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8:48 AM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Army officers carried in a large frosted sheet cake at the beginning of Thursday’s session in the House to celebrate the 232nd anniversary of the U.S. Army, at the invitation of Rep. Kenneth Carter, chairman of veterans’ affairs. But the......
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5:48 PM Thu, Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Mayor David N. Cicilline has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, the Clinton campaign announced today. The Clinton campaign also announced that it's named fellow Democrat Cicilline a co-chairman of her campaign in Rhode Island. “Hillary Clinton understands......
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5:49 PM Tue, Jun 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- A state senator has introduced a bill that would prohibit anyone from serving more than one term on the Judicial Nominating Commission. Earlier this year, Sen. James C. Sheehan, D-North Kingstown, accused Governor Carcieri, a Republican, of violating......
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5:37 PM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The governor and House Finance Committee have sparred over what should be in the state budget. The unions and special interests have added their two cents, too. Now it's your turn, if you consider yourself a watchdog, curious or just......
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4:31 PM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, D-R.I., is expected to be on Larry King Live some time during the next week or so, perhaps next Monday, for a segment on mental-health parity legislation, a spokeswoman said this afternoon. Kennedy will not......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Cool Moose has been busy this spring. Cult political figure Robert Healey had four bills introduced on his behalf this session by his representative, Jan Malik, D-Warren. The bills included a measure to eliminate political primaries (or have them......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
How often does one get to hear the word “alpaca” in the halls of state government? It happened on the House floor Thursday, as lawmakers debated “An Act Relating to Agriculture and Forestry — Farming.” The bill’s aim: to add......
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9:23 AM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
One of Rhode Island’s legislators has gained notoriety in the insurance industry for his allegations of conducting business behind closed doors. Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy, D-Hopkinton, complained that during meetings of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, he was repeatedly......
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9:21 AM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Lobbyists come in all shapes and sizes. Amanda Sawyer, a 23-year-old nursing assistant and mother of an autistic child, joined union powerhouse George Nee and the omnipresent corporate lobbyist Robert Goldberg on the second floor of the State House last......
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7:17 PM Thu, Jun 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- With back and forth over contracts fueling political battles these days at the State House, here comes another potential volley. House Speaker William J. Murphy announced today he has asked the auditor general's office to do a performance......
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5:51 PM Wed, Jun 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / John Freidah Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani laughs after a question about his baseball allegiance and what he'd do to win the election from Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst, at right. Hear a clip of the......
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11:35 AM Wed, Jun 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has endorsed U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee, the Clinton campaign announced late this morning. The Rhode Island Democrat has also been named a co-chair of the New York Democrat's Rhode Island campaign.......
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7:24 PM Tue, Jun 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PORTSMOUTH -- Presidential hopeful and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani is scheduled to visit the Carnegie Abbey Club tomorrow during a swing through Rhode Island, according to a news release on Business Wire. Giuliani's visit comes on a......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By M. Charles Bakst Email
It took awhile, but someone asked the eight Democratic presidential candidates Sunday night about Darfur. The first half of the CNN debate from New Hampshire featured questions from journalists, and no one asked the field specifically to address the genocide......
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9:26 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
As the new fiscal year begins July 1, state employees of all stripes will get raises and will also start paying more for their health insurance. Every union contract the administration has settled calls for a 3-percent pay increase this......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The 113-member General Assembly is one of the few groups getting state-paid health insurance without any requirement that they contribute to the cost. That isn’t expected to change anytime soon, although a vocal minority say they’ll keep trying: Sen. Paul......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
More than six months after Guillaume de Ramel lost his bid for secretary of state, the Federal Election Commission has cleared him of wrongdoing in his Democratic primary battle against the ultimate winner, A. Ralph Mollis. Can’t remember which FEC......
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9:22 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Come to Lincoln tonight if you want to air your views on election laws. Secretary of State Mollis’ Voters First Advisory Commision will hold the first of five public hearings this evening on how the state might change election laws......
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9:21 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It was hard enough getting the governor, the General Assembly and the state’s major insurers to agree on the framework for a low-cost health-insurance plan for small businesses. When the plan passed the Assembly last year, its backers breathed a......
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9:20 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
"Jury duty” is a thing of the past in Rhode Island. Officially over. Out of date. So 2006. From now on, it’s “jury service.” State Jury Commissioner Eugene J. McMahon announced last week that he has instructed staff to “discontinue......
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9:19 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. James R. Langevin has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, while his House colleague Patrick J. Kennedy is sticking with his choice of Sen. (and fellow Providence College alum) Christopher Dodd, of Connecticut. Neither......
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9:18 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The 40th birthday of Christine Heenan, major domo at the Clarendon Group public affairs and P.R. shop, brought a bevy of lobbyists, health-care executives and pols to Local 121, on Washington Street, in Providence on Thursday. Heenan, who in September......
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1:58 PM Fri, Jun 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By M. Charles Bakst Email
Democratic presidential candidates meet in a nationally televised debate Sunday night, and Republicans on Tuesday, and here's what I'm wondering: Will anyone ask them about Darfur? Questions posed on the broadcasts from New Hampshire will come from political journalists and......
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