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August 2007 Archives
7:17 PM Fri, Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton and several Democratic congressmen are doing, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has given to charity the campaign contributions from a donor who, it was reported this week, was wanted on an arrest warrant for alleged grand......
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5:59 PM Fri, Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
A three-member committee will interview five candidates for the new post of chief magistrate of the state Traffic Tribunal. The five candidates are: * William R. Guglietta, of Cranston, chief legal counsel for the state House of Representatives since 2003.......
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5:54 PM Fri, Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Mayor David N. Cicilline's chief of staff is stepping down and will become the mayor's senior adviser. Christopher J. Bizzacco makes the move as he gets ready to pursue an advanced degree, according to a news release from......
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9:39 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s not just religious groups that would be affected if officials enforced the policy for use of the State House buildings and grounds. The policy would apparently outlaw just about every demonstration that takes place at the State House during......
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9:38 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
He’s back. In April, Gerald Bedrick resigned from his dual roles as a highly paid consultant to the Department of Administration and as the “public” member of the agency’s three-member contract review committee. By then, the onetime insurance man from......
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9:34 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Another top official is leaving state government, attributing the decision at least in part to the budget cuts enacted by the General Assembly in June. Reeva Murphy, childcare administrator for the Department of Human Services, on Friday left the post......
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9:33 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Reeva Murphy, childcare administrator for the Department of Human Services, wasn’t the only Carcieri official who Smith Hill left last week. Friday was the last day for the governor’s special counsel, Claire Richards. She had worked in the executive branch’s......
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9:31 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
There will be something missing from State House tours this week. Johnson & Wales University senior Ashley Evans is leaving the Secretary of State’s office, where the outgoing young lady guided groups of schoolchildren and adults around the Capitol dome......
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11:01 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Thomas Dwyer, the associate director of child welfare, says that budget cuts and shifting priorities at the Department of Children, Youth and Families have forced him into retirement. Dwyer notified his superiors Tuesday that he would retire from the agency’s......
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11:00 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
While A. Ralph Mollis won the secretary of state race last fall, his opponent is the one honored with a sandwich in her name at the coffee shop in the State House basement. On their lunch break, State House workers......
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10:59 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Rhode Island’s political parties got a little help from state taxpayers last week. The state treasurer’s office distributed $88,448 generated by the political donation check box on state tax returns. The tax return allows filers a $2 donation for a......
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10:55 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Wrapping up loose ends, a Senate spokesman last week detailed the cost of upgrades made in a couple of Senate offices earlier in the year. The total bill for the renovations in Rooms 114 and 314 was $6,741.77, according to......
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10:53 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will host a community dinner Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Rose Larisa Memorial Park, in East Providence. The event, at 800 Bullocks Point Ave., is free. The freshman Democratic senator will use the time to “share......
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10:46 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The former director of the state Department of Environmental Management who went down in flames four years ago has reappeared as executive director of the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, a Woonsocket-based, federally financed organization that......
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10:43 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The Judicial Nominating Commission is scheduled to meet tomorrow to decide which candidates to interview for a Family Court vacancy. Family Court Judge Pamela M. Macktaz is planning to retire Aug. 31, after 23 years on the bench. The commission......
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10:42 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The governor’s office will be without a familiar face today. Carcieri’s director of public information, Michael Maynard, has left state government and his $89,350 salary. He has moved to the private sector. Today he will move into a new office......
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10:38 AM Mon, Aug 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
No sooner had one delegation of state lawmakers returned from the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual meeting, in Boston, than another group was off to the Council of State Governments’ Eastern Regional Conference, in Quebec City. The annual......
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10:00 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Things got heated in the Department of Administration’s Conference Room C last week. The State Properties Committee battled Tuesday morning about whether to sell 13 parking spaces in the lot adjacent to an office building at One State Street —......
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9:58 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
To say someone is engaging in political theater is sometimes an insult. Not so, however, in the case of the lieutenant governor’s husband. Thomas H. Roberts, husband of Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts, appears in a revival of State of......
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9:55 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Lest you think General Assembly members and their staff are just on vacation all summer long … An eight-person delegation from Rhode Island spent five days last week considering legislative business at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting,......
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9:53 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. Stephen R. Ucci, D-Johnston, became a dad on Aug. 6. Gianna Marie — daughter of Ucci and his wife, Dina — was born at Women & Infants Hospital weighing 6 lbs, 14 oz., and measuring 19½ inches. Four days......
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9:52 AM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
There will be a new face in Sen. Jack Reed’s Washington office this morning. Jennifer Berlin takes over for departed deputy press secretary Regan Lachapelle as of yesterday. Lachapelle, incidentally, left Reed to serve as the deputy director of communications......
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11:28 AM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
How quiet are things in state government this time of year? So quiet that Political Scene has resorted to investigating Smith Hill toilet paper usage. The investigation was prompted by news that state officials have decided to use the summer......
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11:22 AM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s a long way from the Cliff Walk . . . Photo courtesy of Sheldon Whitehouse Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse stands on the edge of Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, in Greenland. At left is his wife, Sandra. But the junior senator from......
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11:21 AM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of Whitehouse and powerful women … Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton comes back to Rhode Island on Sept. 27 for a fundraiser for her presidential campaign. The luncheon event will be held at the East Greenwich home of Democratic Party......
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11:20 AM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In the Rhode-Islanders-moving-to-far-flung-lands-for-campaign-jobs department … Adam W. Bozzi, the spokesman for Charlie Fogarty’s campaign for governor last year, is now the spokesman for the presidential campaign of John Edwards in Nevada. And Peter I. Asen, former communications director for the......
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11:17 AM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And speaking of volunteers… The Rhode Island Democratic Party is depending in part on volunteers to manage its new Web site, launched late last month after a redesign that cost about $4,000, according to the party’s executive director, Tim Grilo.......
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2:55 PM Wed, Aug 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Email
Photo courtesy of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's office Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse standing on the edge of the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, part of Greenland’s Ilulissat ice fjord. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse joined nine other senators on a two-day trip to Greenland......
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