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April 2008 Archives
1:25 PM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
Journal photo / Mary Murphy The Rhode Island Democrat answers questions from projo.com readers during the online chat held today from The Providence Journal newsroom. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed answered questions from projo.com readers ranging from what can be......
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9:24 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Remember the plan to ban drivers from talking on hand-held cell phones? It may be ringing again. Lawmakers did not include the proposal in their midyear budget revision last week, prompting some to pronounce the line dead. But House leaders......
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9:23 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Representative, or shall we say Sen. Roger A. Picard, may be about to make history in the General Assembly. After handily winning last week’s special election to fill the District 20 (Cumberland and Woonsocket) seat of Sen. Roger R. Badeau,......
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9:23 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In other election-related news, the government watchdog group Common Cause of Rhode Island has raised a red flag about the lingering vacancies on the state’s seven-member Board of Elections, saying the empty seats could soon create “a major political crisis”......
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9:21 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rhode Island Family Court chief of staff Ronald J. Pagliarini has been elected president of the National Truancy Prevention Association. “It’s a lot of responsibility and it’s an honor,” Pagliarini said. “I would hope that we can make a national......
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9:20 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And in this week’s real estate news: That For Sale sign on the front lawn of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Elmgrove Avenue house in Providence is not an optical illusion. The senator and his wife, Sandra, are selling the house and......
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2:02 PM Fri, Apr 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri, after meeting with Rhode Island clergy today about his executive order cracking down on illegal immigration, said there will be an advisory group to monitor how the order is carried out. Bishop Thomas Tobin of the......
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8:17 AM Fri, Apr 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Sen. Jack Reed will answer questions from projo.com readers during a live chat from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Monday, April 28. You can submit questions now: go to projo.com/chat, click "launch chat", choose a display name (you don't need......
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8:16 AM Fri, Apr 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
The House is set to vote on a supplemental budget this afternoon. A revised proposal was passed earlier this week and a special session is scheduled for today at 2 p.m. to vote on the governor's proposed budget for the......
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7:18 AM Fri, Apr 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
PROVIDENCE -- Religious leaders plan to meet with Gov. Carcieri to voice their concerns about his executive order cracking down on illegal immigrants. The meeting, set for today, will include Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, Rabbi Alan Flam of the......
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9:47 AM Tue, Apr 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PHILADELPHIA -- A six-week, increasingly hard-edged Pennsylvania primary contest between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama culminated today as voters registered their choice - a decision that could save or sink Clinton's flagging candidacy. The candidates questioned each other's......
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9:20 AM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rhode Island Adjutant Gen. Robert T. Bray, whom the governor has said is the public voice in emergencies, is no longer visible on the Rhode Island National Guard’s Web site. Bray’s photo, welcome message and the entire “adjutant general” link......
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9:19 AM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The State House was a ghost town last week as the legislature enjoyed its final week off before what will likely be an intense 10-week sprint to the end of the session. Governor Carcieri was among those who took advantage......
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9:18 AM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Longtime Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-Cranston, may have his future political sights set closer to home. The House Democrat and ice cream shop owner says he’s weighing a primary challenge to Cranston Mayor Michael T. Napolitano in September. “I’m not saying......
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9:17 AM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Longtime State Controller Lawrence C. Franklin, one of the true linchpins of Rhode Island government, is retiring. After 34 years of state service, Franklin, 57, has served notice that the week ending June 21 will be his last in state......
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9:16 AM Mon, Apr 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis is headed to Harvard. On April 28, Mollis will join national election officials and experts in a symposium sponsored by the university’s John F. Kennedy School of Government that will focus on ways to......
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9:09 AM Wed, Apr 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Federal investigators have concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign caused the crash of its Web site the day before the Democratic primary with Ned Lamont. The FBI says it has found no evidence supporting......
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6:28 PM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Rhode Islanders will be able to talk with Governor Carcieri tomorrow about his stand on immigration issues, when he appears as the guest of an online chat hosted by projo.com. The live, hour-long chat is scheduled to start at 12:30......
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5:15 PM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
img alt="swanseasigns.jpg" src="http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/swanseasigns.jpg" width="512" height="341" /> Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Swansea candidate Michael Berube says his campaign signs were being stolen from a place on Route 6 at the intersection of Maple Street, where lots of local candidates have......
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11:11 AM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts' chief of staff plans to leave his position on May 1, Roberts has announced. Paul Tencher has served as Roberts' chief of staff since her inauguration in January 2007. Tencher plans to pursue "outside opportunities," Roberts......
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9:47 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Steve Kass’ salary has been cut nearly in half. The governor’s former director of communications –– who was recently “loaned” to the state Emergency Management Agency after being replaced in the State House –– will now earn $66,919 a year.......
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9:46 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
As has become tradition at the State House, this week’s legislative committee-action deadline was preceded by last week’s House Democratic leadership fundraiser. The event drew an estimated 150 lawmakers, lobbyists and other interested observers to the Roger Williams Park Casino......
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9:45 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
This morning’s release of the annual Kids Count report was not the only good news for Rhode Island children in recent days. Last week, a report by the “Every Child Matters” Education Fund, a nonprofit agency based in Washington, D.C.,......
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9:44 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
As the long, and sometimes mind-numbing, pension reform hearings got under way at the State House, it struck one of the commission members — Providence Mayor David Cicilline’s director of administration, Richard I. Kerbel — that he is one of......
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9:43 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Not every April Fool’s Day joke went quite as far and wide as Pat Crowley’s. But the deputy director of National Education Association Rhode Island — who is as famous for his appearances in a Bush mask and “mission accomplished”......
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9:42 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
There was a wait of an hour and a half at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Bald Hill Road last Thursday when former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee signed his new political memoir, Against the Tide: How a Compliant......
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9:41 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A much-publicized proposal requiring hospitals to report all hospital-borne infections continued to breeze through the General Assembly last week, winning unanimous passage in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, even stood to thank sponsor Hanna M.......
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5:00 PM Thu, Apr 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Many Massachusetts communities have their town elections in April. On Monday, voters in Rehoboth and Seekonk will go to the polls to choose selectmen, among other contests. In Seekonk, voters will decide on two initiatives: one to remove the town's......
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