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February 22, 2009 - February 28, 2009 Archives
5:17 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo  Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Mayor David N. Cicilline has appointed Matthew Stark, the city's policy and legislative affairs director, to coordinate the administration of federal stimulus money. The mayor signed an executive order today establishing guidelines to ensure federal dollars authorized......
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3:39 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Every week it seems another Democrat signals interest in the 2010 governor's race. This week we can add Bob Walsh to the list. Walsh, the well-known executive director of the National Education Association Rhode Island and a State House regular,......
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3:00 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Call it an only-at-the-State-House moment. As dozens of Rhode Island's jobless rallied on the sidewalk in front of the state Capitol yesterday, uniformed parking attendants dodged between them, valet parking shiny cars for a cocktail reception inside. The event was......
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2:43 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By Cynthia Needham Journal staff writer For months he's flown under the radar. Now John Edwards, the former United States senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate, is coming to Brown University next month. It appears the speaking engagement is one......
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1:08 PM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
It was supposed to be a show of unity. Governor Carcieri officially accepted federal stimulus money this week with General Assembly leaders at his side. At least most of them. The top Democrats -- including the House Speaker, Senate president,......
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10:26 AM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
It's only February. But already, House Speaker William J. Murphy is predicting an unusually long legislative session. "I'm not going to be popular by saying this, but I do not seeing the Assembly getting out by July 1 this year,"......
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6:20 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
A key Senate panel this evening unanimously endorsed Gary Sasse to serve as Governor Carcieri's director of the Department of Administration. The full Senate is expected to vote on the recommendation next week. Sasse, a longtime head of the Rhode......
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5:52 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Governor Carcieri has announced he will release his 2010 budget less than two weeks from now, on Tuesday, March 10. Carcieri says he also intends that day to unveil an again-revised version of his mid-year budget repair bill to reflect......
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5:45 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- When state Republicans gather at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet for their annual RIGOP convention March 19, their more conservative members will be seeking support for a proposal to restrict Republican primaries to registered Republicans, and require that voters produce a......
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5:37 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- With the leaders of the General Assembly standing behind him, Governor Carcieri this afternoon signed a document officially accepting $1.1 billion in federal stimulus funds expected to flow to Rhode Island over the next two years. "This is......
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4:15 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alan Rosenberg Email
BY JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- President Obama's far-reaching first budget relies on money from Medicare and other ``perennial pay-for accounts'' that previous presidents have tried --- and generally failed --- to tap for their spending programs,......
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3:02 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Lest there be any doubt that casino gambling has a base of support in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, Rep. William San Bento mustered two dozen cosponsors for his call for a referendum next year to......
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2:08 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- When Rep. Arthur Handy introduced his version of the same-sex marriage bill up for debate at the State House tonight, he had three co-sponsors. That was 2003. The revived bill he introduced yesterday carried the names of......
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2:01 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Director of Revenue Gary S. Sasse will face a confirmation hearing this afternoon in his nomination to become the new director of the state Department of Administration. Sasse, a former longtime head of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, last......
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11:00 AM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lauren Bacall, Bill Cosby, performers from Broadway and some surprise guests will celebrate Sen. Edward Kennedy's recent birthday with a special performance at the Kennedy Center next month. The Massachusetts senator, who turned 77 on Feb. 22,......
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3:28 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- The $5,000 radio ad campaign aimed at killing a same-sex marriage proposal up for a State House hearing tomorrow is being guided by the local affiliate of a national advocacy group whose local board of advisors includes......
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3:16 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
By Steve Peoples Journal State House PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed and Senate Majority Leader Daniel P. Connors are meeting behind closed doors with Governor Carcieri to discuss the federal economic stimulus package and how the......
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1:53 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- House Speaker William J. Murphy says the change in legislative leadership in Massachusetts and the boost it gives Bay State casino promoters means "we very well could be in trouble.'' Murphy, D-West Warwick, said he is not......
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3:26 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- The next shot has been fired in the war over the same-sex marriage proposal headed for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday night. First came a radio ad sponsored by the Rhode Island affiliate of a......
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1:30 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Today was supposed to be the day Governor Carcieri delivered his Fiscal Year 2010 budget proposal to state lawmakers. Not happening. By law, his tax and spending plans for the year beginning on July 1 were due last month,......
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12:50 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE. RI -- Renewed talk by state lawmakers of allowing full-scale casino gambling has sparked "a few questions'' from Matthew Thomas, the leader of the Narragansett Indian's defeated drive to open a Harrah's financed casino in West Warwick. "I was......
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12:22 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
What started out as a letter to the editor by Republican state lawmaker John Loughlin of Tiverton has been turned by the state GOP into a draft Loughlin-for-Congress drive. In a widely distributed e-mail that went out yesterday, the Rhode......
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6:18 PM Mon, Feb 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau The Obama administration will transfer $93.5 million to Rhode Island on Wednesday as part of the state's share of the massive economic stimulus package signed last week. The immediate funds, released by the......
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3:31 PM Mon, Feb 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The same-sex marriage debate has prompted a radio ad war. Last week, the months-old Rhode Island affiliate of the National Organization for Marriage hit the airwaves with a spot that urges listeners to call their state legislators......
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1:35 PM Mon, Feb 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is scheduled to speak this afternoon from the Senate floor about the need for national health care reform. In his remarks -- expected to be aired nationally on C-SPAN 2 at around 2:45 p.m. -- Rhode......
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12:13 PM Mon, Feb 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lobbyists often clog State House hallways this time of year -- but not usually on Mondays. Rhode Island's part-time legislature is usually only in session Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Dozens of lobbyists, however, are on hand today......
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4:00 PM Sun, Feb 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By News staff Email
Marilyn Shannon McConaghy also is changing jobs. Again. McConaghy is the former Democratic state senator and insurance industry lobbyist who served a controversial stint as director of the Department of Business Regulation under former Gov. Lincoln C. Almond before being......
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3:55 PM Sun, Feb 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By News staff Email
Transparency seems to be catching on in state government. While the Open Meetings Law specifically exempts the legislature, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis says the General Assembly is following perfectly "the spirit of the law." The same can't be......
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