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July 2007 Archives
6:39 PM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will bring her presidential campaign to Rhode Island on Sept. 27 with a fund-raising event in East Greenwich. The New York Democrat and former first lady will appear at a luncheon at the home of Democratic......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
To fill the long-vacant position of director of e-government and information technology in his office, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis hired William Barbieri, the former Rhode Island Public Transit Authority employee accused of using his state computer to send......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
If state court officials were hoping to put lawyer Keven A. McKenna in his place with a scathing response to McKenna’s incendiary comments about Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Wlliams, it didn’t work. The judiciary’s response seems only to......
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9:23 AM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
State Rep. Robert E. Flaherty, a thorn in the side of House Speaker William J. Murphy since Murphy removed him as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 2005, penned one of his trademark snarky letters to Murphy last week.......
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9:22 AM Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
At noon on Friday, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed’s deputy press secretary, Regan Lachapelle, traded a Reed for a Reid. After five years, Lachapelle, 27, left Reed’s office to join Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s staff. Lachapelle will serve as the......
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9:32 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Pastiche. Aposematic. Pleochroic. Those are a few of the words that Senior Judge Bruce M. Selya, of the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, shared last week with the 600,000 or so people who receive the daily e-mail newsletter A.Word.A.Day.......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
“Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. said on Thursday, three weeks after collapsing at a social event in Providence. Rodgers said he left the Licht Judicial Complex on June 28 and......
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9:30 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The U.S. Senate Democratic “Class of 2006” — the crop of newcomers elected to the exclusive club last fall — is a heterogeneous crew, politicians who in the aggregate represent the Northeast, the Midwest and the Rocky Mountain states. Last......
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9:29 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Also nudged into the background by the Iraq debate last week was a piece of progress for Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy’s signature legislation. A key House committee endorsed the “mental-health parity” bill that Kennedy and Rep. Jim Ramstad hope to......
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9:27 AM Mon, Jul 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s musical chairs time again in the governor’s Office of Constituent Affairs. Charles “Chuck” Hollis, who has been in and out of the governor’s suite since he was first hired in 1995 by then-Gov. Lincoln C. Almond, moved late last......
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6:31 PM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
U.S. Rep. James Langevin has been named to the congressional conference committee assigned to hammer out the differences between the House and Senate versions of ``the 9/11 bill." The measure is intended to adopt as federal policy the recommendations of......
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8:56 AM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Don’t hold your breath waiting for hearings to begin anytime soon on 24-hour gambling at the two Rhode Island slot parlors: Twin River (the former Lincoln Park) and Newport Grand. State Sen. Paul Moura, D-East Providence, tried to get the......
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8:54 AM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In a new book called Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America, author James Ferguson goes “from Rhode Island to Beverly Hills” to examine what Abraham Lincoln means to the country. And along the way, Ferguson, a senior editor at......
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8:52 AM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The 54 bills Governor Carcieri vetoed this year left some wondering whether he would be remembered as Governor Veto. Carcieri vetoed more bills this year than he has in any year of his first term, but it turns out he’s......
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8:51 AM Mon, Jul 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. Charlene Lima, D-Cranston, is getting her first taste of presidential politics this year. And Lima, who serves among the legislative leadership as the House speaker tempore, couldn’t be happier with her new role. She is the unofficial liaison between......
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6:42 PM Wed, Jul 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- A minority legislative caucus today announced support for the class-action lawsuit filed by Child Advocate Jametta O. Alston, who is pushing to overhaul a state foster care system the suit alleges is replete with horror. Alston's lawsuit, against......
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1:11 PM Tue, Jul 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Govenor Carcieri talks to Gene Perrulli, one of the car show organizers, about classic cars at the press conference at the State House yesterday afternoon. On the day six state departments in Cranston, including......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Ronald N. Renaud, a former Republican town councilman in North Smithfield, has been hired to succeed Jerome F. Williams as a top deputy to Governor Carcieri’s director of administration, Bevery Najarian. He starts work at his new One Capitol Hill......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In other Department of Administration news, the agency held a bid opening last week for a new multi-million dollar staffing contract. Smith Hill watchers know the controversy surrounding the administration’s no-bid award last fall of a short-term contract, worth $7......
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9:23 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Meanwhile, on the DOT job front, a posting has gone up for an interim chief engineer. The department’s longtime chief engineer, Edmund T. Parker, remains on paid leave, pending the outcome of an investigation into his role in the award......
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9:21 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
More interested in national politics? With next year’s presidential race heating up, the Federal Election Commission has unveiled a souped-up Web site that allows users to track donations to presidential campaigns by state. Visitors can find the amount of money......
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9:20 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Back in the Ocean State, University of Rhode Island political science professor Maureen Moakley is stepping down as chairwoman of URI’s poli-sci department after eight years at the helm. But she isn’t really going anywhere. Moakley will continue to teach......
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9:15 AM Mon, Jul 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Representatives of the secretary of state’s office were among the family and friends gathered at last week’s citizenship ceremony at Roger Williams National Park, near downtown Providence Alerted by a local media report of the ceremony, members of Secretary of......
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9:46 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri wasn’t kidding when he said last month that he hoped to privatize “every state service that could possibly be performed more efficiently by the private sector.” The Department of Corrections was preparing a request for proposals last month......
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9:44 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of things on hold… Local blogger Patrick Crowley was shocked last week to learn that one of his two antiwar YouTube videos had been taken off the popular video Web site after being flagged as “inappropriate.” The two-minute video......
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9:43 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And speaking of presidential politics … Governor Carcieri’s affection for President Bush was brimming over at Thursday‘s presidential visit to the Naval War College in Newport. Carcieri, who has been a consistent supporter of Mr. Bush even as the president’s......
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9:42 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And speaking of Rhode Island Republicans … State GOP officials last week disclosed the results of two highly unscientific straw polls on the presidential race. Rhode Island Republicans — at least those who attended recent fundraisers — seem to like......
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9:40 AM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And speaking of political endorsements… Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has decided which of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls he’ll vote for. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s press office issued a statement last week announcing Mollis’ support. “We’ve received tremendous support......
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