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September 2007 Archives
7:30 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, last week said the time might have passed already for the White House to successfully nominate candidates for a vacancy on the U.S. District Court in Providence and......
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7:27 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
For most voters, 2010 is a long way away. But for the inside players, there is already a spirited contest among Democratic adherents of Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline and General......
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7:25 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns’ executive director, Dan Beardsley, has decided to introduce a little live polling action at his group’s annual meeting on Thursday. With a small hand-held device at their place settings, each attendee will......
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7:23 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says he can understand why former Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee decided to leave the Republican Party. Whitehouse -- who beat Chafee last year, running on the theme that a Democratic majority was needed in Congress......
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7:23 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
On the Stephen Laffey front: The oft-quoted press secretary for his failed ’06 Republican primary challenge to then-U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee is now working for his single biggest backer: the conservative Washington-based Club for Growth. In a brief interview earlier......
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7:17 AM Mon, Sep 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Calling all those “Obama curious.” The local volunteer group, GObama RI, plans to host a series of informational happy hour events beginning this week to discuss the Democratic presidential candidate. “The happy hours will be very casual -- just drop......
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11:36 AM Thu, Sep 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
A bill introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., which would require the White House and Justice Department to tell Congress when officials initiate discussions of pending cases and investigations, cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee today. In a news release, Whitehouse's......
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9:35 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri has his own theories on why his job-approval rating plummeted 15 points in the latest Brown University public opinion survey and it has nothing to do with any of the dustups in the news: the latest court ruling......
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9:33 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy has chosen Jan Malik, a Warren Democrat, to succeed former Rep. Peter Ginaitt as the chairman of the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. On the dominoes board, Malik’s move, in turn, may open......
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9:32 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Two days after the big-splash opening of Twin River’s 130,000-square-foot expansion, Cynthia Stern, vice president of the company that owns the Lincoln gambling hall, said her goodbyes. Friday was her last day. When asked about her departure, Stern said she......
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9:31 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will be at Roger Williams University School of Law today to talk about “the need to restore the independence and credibility of the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of the controversial tenure of Attorney......
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9:30 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
An outsider has joined the governor’s inside budget-cutting talks: Gary Sasse, executive director of the business-financed Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. On Tuesday, for example, the governor’s public schedule showed Sasse taking part in a 9-to-10:30 a.m. meeting with Department......
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9:29 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Senate is losing its top policy adviser for the last decade, Kenneth Payne. Friday was the last day at the State House for the $113,925-a-year Payne, who went to work for the Senate in 1997 after an eight-year stint......
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9:27 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Speaker Murphy took his place as president of the National Speakers’ Conference at a meeting of the bipartisan organization in Dover, Del., earlier this month. With the title comes the promise that the speakers will hold their 2008 conference......
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9:58 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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U.S. Sen. Jack Reed told the nation tonight that President Bush’s Iraq policies are hurting national security, while endangering the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers and largely ignoring the terrorist threat of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda......
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6:52 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
President Bush will speak to the nation about Iraq at 9 tonight, and U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, will deliver the Democrats' response immediately after. Reed is on the Senate Armed Services Committee, one of the panels that heard......
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9:24 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
One Rhode Island lawmaker was so upset with “the President of the United States and the Republicans in Washington” that he went to Cumberland Town Hall last Tuesday to shed his Republican Party affiliation. Newly registered as an independent, Rep.......
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9:23 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The State House building superintendent, Salvatore “Sam” DeVincenzo returned to work Friday after being placed on administrative leave for two weeks. Department of Administration Director Beverly Najarian was vague about the initial decision: “Sam has been put on administrative leave......
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9:22 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A former public works director in Cranston has come out of retirement to temporarily serve as the state Department of Transportation’s $109,748-a-year “chief engineer,” while the longtime occupant of that position — Edmund T. Parker — remains on paid leave......
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9:21 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In what may be more a testament to a strong bladder and strong back than political acumen or ambition, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been presented the Senate’s Golden Gavel Award. His achievement: presiding over the Senate for 100 hours......
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9:20 AM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Starting this year, Sept. 11 will be Firefighters and Police Officers Appreciation Day in Rhode Island. The General Assembly approved a bill designating the day of remembrance, and Governor Carcieri signed it into law July 3. Rep. Stephen R. Ucci,......
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3:31 PM Wed, Sep 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Just as Sen. 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 last week, was wanted on an arrest warrant in the......
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9:25 AM Tue, Sep 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It was the Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, “There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.” If that’s true, then the General Assembly must be very noble indeed. The Rhode Island legislature lists a......
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9:24 AM Tue, Sep 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy and Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano have big, shiny new wheels at their disposal. Responding to Political Scene inquiries about the two new SUVs with temporary plates parked outside the State House, a spokesman confirmed......
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9:22 AM Tue, Sep 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed is inviting applications for fall-semester internships in his Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., offices. A news release from Reed’s camp promised the chance to “participate in the day to day running of a Senate office and......
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