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June 15, 2008 - June 21, 2008 Archives
4:46 PM Sat, Jun 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
It's 4:40 p.m., and the House is still passing legislation this afternoon. After spending a few minutes on tributes for members who will be leaving the House, the legislators are back at work on bills. And they're moving fast. They're......
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1:38 PM Sat, Jun 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
Try to keep pace with what the General Assembly is up to by looking at their calendars, which list the bills being worked on. Or, at least, most of them, and perhaps not in the order listed. You can check......
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8:02 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
You can watch Rhode Island lawmakers make the hoped-for final push tonight as the legislative session draws to a close -- right from your own home. The General Assembly action will be showcased tonight on Capitol TV, Cox Cable Channel......
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5:56 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island's House members split today as the House passed a bipartisan deal to overhaul the ground rules on electronic surveillance, while protecting telecommunications companies from lawsuits over their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. After......
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5:42 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- You've got an issue. And you want to sound a clarion call for it outside the State House as lawmakers hand over a difficult state budget to the governor's pen. But about the sound system involved: Don't use......
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5:39 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Things are heating up for the House of Representatives tonight. So out came the ice cream. As late afternoon verged on evening, House members embarking on the crazed final day -- and night -- of the legislative session......
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5:31 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By maria caporizzo Email
PROVIDENCE -- A long night still ahead, the House late today passed a bill to quicken release of public records, among them police reports, in Rhode Island. The vote was 49 to 9, with opposition coming from Republicans in the......
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12:27 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Connie Grosch It was the Senate Finance Committee's turn yesterday to vote on the state budget after it moved to them from the House. From left, state Sen. Paul Moura, D-East Providence, committee member; Daniel Beardsley,......
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7:40 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- A Senate committee voted this evening to approve a bill sought by the criminal-defense lobby to automatically “quash and destroy’’ criminal records, no matter how serious the crime. The bill introduced by Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-Providence, was passed......
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5:09 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Frieda Squires Mike Garcia of Hope High School, Providence; Andrea DeBarros, Shea High School, Pawtucket, and Kevin Manuel, Mount Hope High School, Bristol, are among 30 students statewide who have been spent the week learning about......
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4:38 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy, one of state government's most powerful figures, announced today that he will seek re-election to the House. If he keeps his House seat, Murphy will also seek support in January for a fourth term as......
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4:20 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON – Almost as soon as the Senate took up a bipartisan $300-billion deal today to pull the U.S. housing industry out of its downward plunge, obstacles to its passage appeared, including a veto threat from the White House. That......
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4:07 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A bill that would speed up the release of public records –– including police reports –– in Rhode Island is on its way to the House floor for a final vote. The proposal would amend Rhode Island’s access to open......
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2:28 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The 9-hour budget debate last night was just the beginning. After passing a budget, the House must now move on to the real work of voting on hundreds of bills still before them this session. Legislative leaders had......
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7:00 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- And cut? That's what a state budget amendment by Rep. Nicholas Gorham, R-Coventry this evening proposed to do to Rhode Island's film tax credit: cut it altogether and, he said, free up some $15 million for aid to......
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5:47 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- In the who-gets-the-credit award category for state budgets that close a state deficit, state Rep. Nicholas Gorham wasn't waiting for the budget to pass. "You must be dreaming," Gorham, a Republican from Coventry, said this evening on the......
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5:08 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- There was plenty of shouting over the state budget this afternoon, but there's no way it's all over. The House debate on the plan to close a $425-million state deficit turned fiery over illegal immigration. The raging national......
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2:52 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- There are protesters with signs, protesters wearing stickers, protesters just protesting. But missing so far from today’s scheduled budget vote are members of the House. The process was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the House Chamber,......
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1:42 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Rhode Island doctors are among the dozens of groups who have flooded the hallways of the State House this week pleading for last-minute action on a mountain of bills. Medical professionals “are screaming for passage” of legislation that would waive......
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1:36 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
It’s typo season on Smith Hill. With bills and budget amendments changing on the fly, grammatical mistakes are everywhere. Your high school English teacher would cringe. Some of the errors are innocuous, while others have serious implications for the substance......
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12:04 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state House of Representatives will convene today at 2 p.m. to approve a state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The budget -- which consists of at least 39 separate "articles" -- is aimed......
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7:22 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed had a sharp exchange this afternoon with a former Pentagon official during Senate testimony on the continuing revelations about the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Cuba by U.S. military personnel. The former Pentagon legal counsel,......
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6:40 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A Republican-turned-Independent, state Rep. Richard Singleton, disclosed to his House colleagues today that he has switched parties again so that he can lead “Democrats for McCain.’’ Having already announced that he is not running for reelection, Singleton, of Cumberland, said......
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5:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Rhode Island’s Democratic senators joined their partisans Tuesday in calling for Senate action to extend federal unemployment benefits beyond the standard 26 weeks, but Senate Republicans declined to take up such a measure. “Millions of Americans go out pounding the......
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4:13 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
John "J.R." Pagliarini, the governor's former deputy chief of staff, made an appearance at the State House today in his new role. He is now a lobbyist for higher education. He wears the green name tag on his gray blazer......
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3:36 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
It was an unexpected role reversal. While TV cameras filmed the governor at this afternoon’s press conference, the governor filmed the press. Carcieri’s office enlisted a state employee to film the event, or more precisely to film the reporters as......
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10:21 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is considering a pill form of chemotherapy that would allow him to stay home on Cape Cod during treatment for a brain tumor, his son U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said this weekend. Kennedy said his father......
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9:26 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of late nights, Rhode Island Republicans met late into the night Thursday and chose Rep. Carol Mumford, R-Scituate, as the party’s national committeewoman. Mumford succeeds GOP grand dame Eileen Slocum, of Newport. Slocum, 95, has been a party fixture......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Following news that Darrell West, long the public face of polling and punditry at Brown University, is leaving on July 1 to become vice president of the Brookings Institution, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the school announced that Marion Orr,......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Jim Brown will always be remembered by football fans of a certain age as the best running back of his time, and perhaps any time. Brown’s dazzling rushes enlivened many a dark late autumn Sunday afternoon in the 1960s in......
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9:18 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Three members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have been recognized for various contributions to U.S. medicine. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse won laurels from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week for his efforts to legislate and lobby for high-tech......
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