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July 6, 2008 - July 12, 2008 Archives
7:27 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera  Email
Two political Web sites are reporting that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be traveling to Iraq -- and taking Rhode Island's Jack Reed with him. Citing an unidentified source familiar with details of the trip, thehill.com said Obama would......
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3:52 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Governor Carcieri is headed to Philadelphia tomorrow to talk with his fellow governors about the current economic climate, energy alternatives, and teacher quality during a National Governors Association meeting that is also the anniversary of what is called the first-ever......
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3:09 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Marisa Quinn has been appointed vice president of public affairs and university relations at Brown University. Quinn, of Jamestown, was an aide to former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell and former New Jersey governor James Florio. Quinn also served as chief......
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2:52 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first woman House speaker, visits Rhode Island next week for a series of events, including highlighting early childhood education, speaking to labor union members and raising money to help Democrats kep control of the......
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12:31 PM Fri, Jul 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Today is the deadline for prospective political candidates to submit enough Rhode Island voters' signatures in order to get on this year's ballot. The signatures, however, must be validated, or certified, in order to count. The thresholds range from 50......
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4:18 PM Thu, Jul 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON -- The Senate today cleared one of the last obstacles to voting on a landmark housing bill intended to alleviate the mortgage crash, fix regulatory problems that helped to cause it and -- in a provision engineered in part......
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5:51 PM Wed, Jul 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island's Senate delegation split today as the Senate voted overwhelmingly for an overhaul of the nation's foreign intelligence-gathering system, giving President Bush a hard-fought victory on the question of legal immunity for telecommunications companies that helped him......
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4:25 PM Wed, Jul 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON -- The Senate burst into spontaneous ovation minutes ago when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy made his first appearance since being stricken in May with symptoms of what proved to be a malignant brain tumor. The business at hand was......
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4:20 PM Wed, Jul 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy, D-West Warwick, is now running for reelection unopposed, after his only challenger withdrew from the race. West Warwick Democrat Michael Lombardi, 29, took out candidacy papers to challenge Murphy in a Democratic primary, then changed......
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5:16 PM Tue, Jul 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE - Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee waded back into the state political arena recently, in an effort to convince Rhode Island lawmakers to support a movement to change the way U.S. presidents are selected. His quiet, letter-writing campaign came......
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10:34 AM Tue, Jul 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, travels to Rhode Island Wednesday to speak at a fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Dean is scheduled to speak at an Obama fundraiser at 6 p.m. at the Peerless......
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6:11 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Buddy's in the news again. But this time, he's featured in a national magazine. Governing, which distributes news on state and local politics to an estimated 275,000 readers each month, featured a cover story on public corruption in its July......
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2:16 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Political Scene caught up with a couple new faces in the State House last week. Governor Carcieri's new spokeswoman, Amy Kempe, started Tuesday, occupying the first-floor office that had been home to the governor's longtime spokesman, Jeff Neal. In between......
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2:10 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The governor's office scrambled to issue veto messages last week, in part because of an unusual move by the state Senate. Late Friday afternoon, six days after the Assembly adjourned for the year, the Senate transmitted 201 bills -- its......
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11:50 AM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Don't miss Governor Carcieri tonight on Fox TV. The governor is scheduled to appear with Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor. The interview will be taped early in the day and aired at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., according to......
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