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May 2008 Archives
8:51 AM Wed, May 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry  Email
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh-area sports radio host Mark Madden has been permanently taken off the air by ESPN. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted Madden as saying that he had hoped Sen. Edward Kennedy “would live long enough to be assassinated.” The Massachusetts......
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9:31 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A labor union president who made headlines criticizing the Carcieri administration earlier in the year has resigned from the post. Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, then president of Local 314, which represents workers at the state Training School for Youth, told The......
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9:31 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The end is in sight. The General Assembly typically recesses each session before July 4 –– and has been known to leave even earlier in election years, such as this one. That means the next five weeks will be busy.......
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9:30 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It might as well be the hottest restaurant in town. The State House rotunda, one of Rhode Island’s most prized landmarks, is also a wildly popular one apparently. Anyone interested in booking the area for a rally or a few......
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9:29 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
On June 16, Sandra L. Lynch will become the first woman to head the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Boston and whose jurisdiction includes Rhode Island. Lynch, 61, of Boston, will succeed Judge Michael Boudin as......
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9:29 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The General Assembly fundraising season is in full swing these nights as lawmakers fill their campaign coffers in the runup to the September primaries and the November general elections. Sen. Josh Miller, D-Cranston, scheduled a time last Tuesday at 6:30......
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9:27 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rhode Island’s liberal blogosphere will be represented at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. Matthew Jerzyk, founder of RIFuture.org, has been chosen by the Democratic National Committee to be the state’s official party blogger at the confab. The......
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9:24 AM Tue, May 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And in case you missed it last week … The latest numbers on women in state legislatures are out, and Rhode Island doesn’t stack up very well against its New England neighbors in female political success. The rankings, compiled annually......
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4:52 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
BOSTON -- U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy won't be able to deliver a commencement address to Wesleyan University graduates after being diagnosed with brain cancer, so Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will do so for him. Obama offered to stand in......
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4:13 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, the Rhode Island Democrat whose father, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor, has released a statement today: “I have been overwhelmed by all the support and encouragement from......
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1:01 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON -- People in Massachusetts are thinking the unthinkable: Who possibly could succeed U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy? The news about the Massachusett Democrat's cancerous brain tumor has led to quiet speculation about whether he may try to handpick a successor.......
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12:42 PM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Jack Reed, the state's senior U.S. senator, has picked up re-election endorsement from the Rhode Island AFL-CIO's executive board, representing 80,000 union members. The board voted unanimously Monday to support Reed, a Democrat who's been in the Senate 12 years......
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1:08 PM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
The latest numbers on women in state legislatures are out, and Rhode Island doesn't stack up very well against its New England neighbors in female political success. The rankings, compiled annually by the Center for American Women and Politics at......
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9:46 AM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
AP photo U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., arrives at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Monday, May 19, 2008, where his father, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., is hospitalized. PROVIDENCE — As U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy arrived to see......
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3:38 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Should political flame-throwers have to identify themselves in the paid ads they place in newspapers or the campaign fliers they drop on doorsteps? Under current state law, the answer is yes. But a bill to repeal those requirements is headed......
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3:38 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A bill that would require Rhode Island’s $13,508-a-year part-time lawmakers to pay 10 percent of the cost of their state-provided health insurance is headed for a vote by the House of Representatives tomorrow. But recent comments by top Senate leader......
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3:35 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And in case you missed it, here’s a bit of news from the wacky world of politics beyond Smith Hill. In early March, beleaguered Woonsocket Mayor Susan D. Menard threw in the towel during a tough week in which her......
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3:34 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Worried about a possible conflict of interest, Rep. Joseph A. Trillo sounded the alarm to the state Ethics Commission late last month about, um, alarms. In an April 28 letter to the commission, the Warwick Republican questioned whether it’s appropriate......
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3:34 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Roger A. Picard’s departure from the House to take the Senate seat he won in a special election triggered the latest shuffling of House committee seats last week. Peter Petrarca, of Lincoln, was elevated to vice chairman of the Corporations......
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7:04 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo / Winslow Townson U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., left, is greeted by his cousin, Caroline Kennedy, as he arrives at and she departs from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, today, where Patrick's father Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,......
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5:26 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
BOSTON (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital. The 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat fell ill......
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4:18 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Democratic party's liberal lion, was in Massachusetts Hospital this afternoon after suffering a seizure at his home on Cape Cod this morning. Kennedy, 76, was rushed by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital from his familiy's......
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11:26 AM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Governor Carcieri's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News to talk about his executive order cracking down on illegal immigration is being rescheduled by the program, the governor's office said today. Carcieri's interview was scheduled to appear on the......
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5:26 PM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Governor Carcieri is scheduled to be on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News tomorrow night to talk about his executive order cracking down on illegal immigration. The governor's office issued a news release saying Carcieri will tape a brief interview......
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5:09 PM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
The Rhode Island Reagan-Lincoln Day Dinner, part of an effort to raise money for the state's Republican candidates, is tonight. Former Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey and local town committee leaders, members and guests will gather at Rhodes on the......
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11:06 AM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa, is scheduled to hold a news conference at noon today after meeting yesterday with former Patriots videotape assistant Matt Walsh. Earlier in the day yesterday, Walsh met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who announced after......
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11:01 AM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Aging Committee, is scheduled to attend a hearing this morning on Alzheimer’s disease, during which former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is expected to speak publicly for the first time......
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3:55 PM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy hit the campaign trail over the weekend for presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Rhode Island Democrat attended a voter registration rally in Providence for Senator Obama of Illinois Saturday morning, according to the congressman’s office. Kennedy......
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9:19 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Should the state be naming buildings after Rhode Islanders who haven’t yet breathed their last? The critical question of above ground or below took on a life of its own on the House floor last week, with Majority Leader Robert......
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9:17 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It was a tale of two Democratic parties Thursday night. At Providence Prime restaurant, on Federal Hill, a group of party elite fundraisers and elected officials met for a private dinner with Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean. Huddling with Dean......
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9:16 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The final days before Bertie Ahern stepped down last week after 11 years as Ireland’s prime minister were packed with last-minute activities. Ahern made several trips to the United States, including one to Boston in which he bestowed $2 million......
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9:14 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The celebration of the life of Tony Marcella continues this week with a fundraiser in Marcella’s honor. Friends will gather Friday evening at Newport’s Ocean Cliff Hotel for music, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. Proceeds from the event will......
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9:13 AM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
John “J.R.” Pagliarini, dismissed in February by Governor Carcieri from his job as the governor’s deputy chief of staff, has landed at the state Office of Higher Education. Jack Warner, the commissioner of higher education, confirmed that Pagliarini has a......
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2:25 PM Thu, May 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
John "J.R.'' Pagliarini, dimissed in February by Governor Carcieri from his job as the governor's deputy chief of staff, has landed at the state Office of Higher Education. Jack Warner, commissioner of higher education, confirmed today that Pagliarini has a......
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5:26 PM Wed, May 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Just how thin is Governor Carcieri's political skin? An April 22 letter the governor sent to Robert Walsh, executive director of the National Education Association of Rhode Island, the teachers' union, may provide a clue. "It has come to my......
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11:46 AM Wed, May 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Although Sen. Barack Obama's near-miss in Indiana and his crushing victory in North Carolina have made Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pursuit a majority of Democratic convention delegates increasingly implausible, Sen. Jack Reed is one uncommitted party leader who remains unwilling......
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11:12 AM Wed, May 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- The Coast Guard Academy says Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at its commencement ceremony May 21. Academy officials say the vice president is set to deliver the keynote address at 11 a.m. at the school's......
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10:22 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
SPEEDWAY, Ind. –– Indiana’s crucial Democratic presidential primary is too close to call –– at least if there’s any trend to be gleaned from random chats with the voters of this relatively conservative town, the home of the famous auto-racing......
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7:35 PM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
A 26-year-old Cranston native spearheaded last Saturday's upset special election of a Democratic U.S. House member from a very conservative district anchored by Baton Rouge and its McMansion suburbs. Meet Katie Nee, who tomorrow will become the youngest chief......
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7:03 PM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
That U.S. Sen. Jack Reed is indeed the "Irish Pastore" was on display once again yesterday at Reed's annual family breakfast at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet banquet hall in his native Cranston. The reference, of course, is to the late Sen. John O.......
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7:55 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Rep. Stephen R. Ucci, D-Johnston, has proposed that General Assembly members be limited to three terms and that the length of a legislative term be doubled, to four years. “Longer, four-year terms for lawmakers would result in more stability in......
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7:54 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
The public spotlight placed on their free health-care benefits has prompted several more state lawmakers to offer to pay 10 percent of the cost of the premiums costing up to $16,233 a year for family coverage. In recent days, Senate......
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7:45 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Before getting too comfortable in her new job, Jane Hayward, former health and human services secretary, decided to check in with the state Ethics Commission. On April 3, Hayward asked the commission what she can and cannot do — under......
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7:45 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Rep. John Loughlin, a Tiverton Republican, told Political Scene last week that he is considering whether to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy in November. “It has not been ruled in or ruled out at this point,” said Loughlin, 49,......
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7:30 AM Mon, May 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
The citizens-advocacy group Operation Clean Government has a new best friend. Who? The state Republican Party, which issued an e-mail under its own e-Pluribus banner last week reminding one and all of OCG’s “Second Annual Forum.” And why would the......
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7:57 AM Thu, May 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Connie Grosch Six representatives and the governor's director of legislative affairs visited the Inner City Hair Salon on Smith Street in Providence Wednesday with a common purpose -- to have their heads shaved. From left to right:......
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