http://politicsblog.projo.com/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:07:27 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio will not be running for Rhode Island governor as anything else but a Democrat, he said in a Journal interview Tuesday afternoon. He was responding to a Journal reporter's questions about continued... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/caprio-wont-run.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/caprio-wont-run.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:07:27 -0500 PROVIDENCE, R.I - During his final year in office, Governor Carcieri has chosen state budget officer Rosemary Booth Gallogly as his new director of administration. The well-respected Gallogly will double as director of the state's Department of Revenue, as did... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/carcieri-picks-1.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/carcieri-picks-1.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:23:48 -0500 By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin has named two key deputies to his Rhode Island staff -- longtime spokeswoman Joy Fox and state Rep. Ray Sullivan. Democrat Langevin announced Tuesday that Fox is to... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/langevin-promot.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/langevin-promot.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:49:53 -0500 By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick Lynch may have been bailed out last week when cities and towns sued the governor for refusing to release more than $30 million in local aid. The night before Woonsocket filed... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/lynch-off-the-h.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/lynch-off-the-h.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:32:10 -0500 PROVIDENCE. R.I. -- While he is not pulling out of the race to succeed William J. Murphy as House Speaker, Rep. Gregory Schadone has acknowledged that he does not have the votes to win if the vote is called, as... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/opponent-acknow.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/opponent-acknow.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:40:15 -0500 By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, RI.I. -- Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has released the official state election calendar for this campaign season. The 2010 calendar lists key dates for this year's races, including those for local office to those... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/calendar-for-ri.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/calendar-for-ri.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:05:29 -0500 By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While Governor Carcieri's popularity has suffered through much of his second term in office, most Rhode Island voters do not blame the Republican governor for the state's budget problems. A WPRI-TV, Channel 12 poll... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/poll-ri-voters.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/poll-ri-voters.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:20:12 -0500 In the front row: U.S. Sen. Jack Reed was among the top advisers watching President Obama's Dec. 1 speech on a new strategy in Afghanistan at West Point, N.Y. From left are: National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones; Deputy National... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/magazine-piece-1.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/magazine-piece-1.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:48:50 -0500 PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The betting on when House Speaker William J. Murphy will step down has intensified, with some of his fellow Democrats anticipating a Democratic caucus early next week to anoint House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox as... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/state-house-buz.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/state-house-buz.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:47:32 -0500 Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers State Rep. John Loughlin announces his candidacy for Congress Thursday morning in Lincoln. By Katherine Gregg LINCOLN, R.I.-- John J. Loughlin II, a three-term state representative from Tiverton, has formally launched his bid to unseat... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/ri-rep-loughlin.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/ri-rep-loughlin.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 -0500 By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox has introduced a bill to give voters a chance to close a newly-carved hole in state ethics law that has insulated state lawmakers from Ethics Commission scrutiny and... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/majority-leader.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/majority-leader.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:28:31 -0500 PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gary Sasse, Governor Carcieri's director of administration, has served notice of his resignation, effective March 1. When rumors of his imminent departure swirled last week, Sasse assured reporters he would be at the unveiling of Carcieri's budget... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/gary-sasse-carc.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/gary-sasse-carc.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02:54 -0500 PROVIDENCE, R.I. Rep. Gregory Schadone, D-North Providence, has attacked his opponent in the race for House speaker -- frontrunner and Majority Leader Gordon Fox -- over Fox's tenure on the Providence Board of Licenses. In a Sunday Providence Journal story... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/speaker-race-sc.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/speaker-race-sc.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:39:03 -0500 By Michael McKinney Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Among the candidates listed as running for Rhode Island attorney general, Democrat Joseph M. Fernandez raised the most campaign cash in the latest reporting period, according to filings with the Board... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/fernandez-cash.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/fernandez-cash.html Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:48 -0500 By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is scheduled to speak at Brown University Feb. 9. Rathke served as ACORN's lead organizer from its founding in 1970 until... http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/acorn-co-founde.html http://politicsblog.projo.com/2010/02/acorn-co-founde.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:07:58 -0500