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June 1, 2008 - June 7, 2008 Archives
2:36 PM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson  Email
Is there a role for former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a Barack Obama Administration? Might this title fit: administrator, Environmental Protection Agency? So goes the speculation in one of the better-known political blogs, Daily Kos, which raised Chafee’s name......
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11:56 AM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON -- With a blast at ``the failed policies of President Bush,’’ and a tribute to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ``bond with the people of Rhode Island’’ Sen. Jack Reed pledged his support to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today, calling......
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3:43 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
The Providence Republican Party will announce its slate of candidates for statewide and federal office on Monday night . City Party Chairman David Talan said that the party will unveil Republican challengers to incumbent Democratic U.S. Representatives James R. Langevin......
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3:20 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
The state Ethics Commission has yet to weigh in on the legality of Governor Carcieri’s hiring of his niece-in-law, but Carcieri has won a round in his battle with WJAR-Channel 10 over the station's handling of the story, first reported......
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2:58 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Leading Rhode Island Democrats meet in a state convention Sunday in West Warwick to endorse candidates for federal offices and choose a slate to round out the state delegation of 37 delegates and alternates slated to attend the Democratic National......
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2:43 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
WASHINGTON -- A new Senate report debunking the Bush administration’s pre-war claims about the threat from Iraq underlines "a disturbing pattern’’ of twisting the facts about important domestic and national defense issues, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse charged today. In a Senate......
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2:40 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A visit to Governor Carcieri’s media office Wednesday turned up a curious sight: 33 brand new Gateway computer monitors, stacked high and still in their packaging. Thirty-three new monitors during a budget crisis, you ask? Don’t point fingers too fast.......
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2:01 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Deadlines loom for registered Republican and Democratic voters who want the freedom to cross party lines during the September 9 primaries for state, local and Congressional offices and for the candidates who plan to run those races. Voters affiliated with......
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1:45 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Governor Carcieri traveled to Washington D.C. before sunrise on Wednesday for a journey that saw him back in Rhode Island shortly after lunch time. He was in the nation’s capital to sit on a panel, brought together by Education Week,......
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4:41 PM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Several high-placed Rhode Island supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said today they are ready to support Sen. Barack Obama, who clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday. Three major Clinton supporters, William Lynch of Pawtucket, the Democratic state chairman......
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4:07 PM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Three-quarters of Rhode Islanders want to scrap the Electoral College and choose future presidents by national popular vote, according to a poll conducted for a national advocacy group that is pushing for the switch. The proposal is aimed at preventing......
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6:41 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
With the Democratic primary season wrapping up today with contests in South Dakota and Montana, Rhode Island supporters of Barack Obama will gather in Providence tonight to see what happens. According to the Rhode Island Web site for the Obama......
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6:37 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters in the Rhode Island congressional delegation said today that they still back her presidential candidacy. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. James R. Langevin both indicated that they might reassess their endorsements if Clinton stays......
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12:52 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
For those of you wondering when the governor will make good on his threat to veto, for the second year in a row, a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum jail sentences for drug crimes, it may be awhile. The Constitution......
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11:49 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sen. Edward Kennedy had ``a restful night's sleep'' after brain surgery and is recovering with no complications. In a statement issued to The Associated Press today, aides to the Massachusetts Democrat said, ``He is experiencing no complications,......
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1:08 PM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed isn't giving a timetable on when he'll endorse a Democratic candidate for president, even as the final nominating contests loom. The Rhode Island Democrat said Monday during an appearance in Providence that he's looking......
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12:20 PM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's Rhode Island supporters are putting together a fundraiser focused on the local health care community. The event is scheduled for June 17 at 5:30 p.m. at a location to be announced. The guest speaker will be......
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9:41 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Within the next two weeks, state Republicans and Democrats will begin doling out their congressional endorsements with a major unanswered question still burning as Political Scene went to press: Will the GOP be able to muster anyone to run against......
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9:39 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In another sign that state government is in trouble, birds of prey have begun circling Smith Hill. Literally. A state Department of Health employee reported last week that a hawk had killed a seagull in the north parking lot. The......
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9:37 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A month into his move across the rotunda, Rep. — whoops, we mean Sen. — Roger A. Picard has landed himself several committee appointments. On Friday he was named to the Senate Labor and Corporations committees. The new senator will......
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9:37 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Sen. Leonidas Raptakis has logged his share of frequent-flier miles this spring. Raptakis traveled to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, in the nation’s capital, 10 days ago as the featured speaker in the National Maritime Day Celebration –– honoring the......
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