Monique Chartier
… effective September 12, Turn to Ten reports. [H/T Ian Donnis at Not For Nothing.] The longtime political columnist for The Providence Journal is retiring. M. Charles Bakst is taking a buyout that was recently offered to a number of Journal employees. For the past 40 years, Bakst has written weekly and Sunday columns for…
UPDATE – RESCHEDULED To next Tuesday, August 12. Same bat time; same bat channel. The RI College Republicans have organized a protest at 1:00 today [edit] next Tuesday against inaction by the US House on several bills to expand domestic oil drilling. It will start at Congressmen Kennedy’s office, 249 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, and move…
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The passage of twenty four hours has conferred no perspective on or fathomability into this: The state courts plan to keep doing business with two cleaning companies that the Carcieri administration fired last week after 31 of their custodians were arrested as suspected illegal immigrants. And Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch is also sticking with…
Following upon Governor Carcieri’s press conference at 2:00, his office issued the following statement. Governor Donald L. Carcieri today issued an Executive Order authorizing that all employees represented by unions that have not ratified the co-share and plan design changes outlined in the Memorandum of Settlement shall enjoy the same health, vision, and dental plan…
Let’s examine Council 94’s urgent insistance that the thirty meetings with Governor Carcieri do not constitute negotiations in the light of the status of those negotiations informal discussions at meeting ninteen. On May 23, Governor Carieri appeared on WPRO’s Dan Yorke Show: They have not put a single thing … after 19 meetings, hours, hundreds…
… once again, an open position in the Rhode Island court system goes to someone connected to the General Assembly. An assistant legal counsel to the Senate majority leader has been chosen for a $128,650-a-year job as a Family Court magistrate. Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. last week selected Colleen M. Hastings…
The Governor’s office released this statement about an hour ago. “There will be no resumption of negotiations with Council 94,” said Governor Carcieri. “My administration spent six months and hundreds of hours negotiating the terms of this agreement with representatives of Council 94. Those representatives agreed to the terms that were finally negotiated. There were…
Twenty minutes ago on the John DePetro Show, Mayor Susan Menard repeated her belief that This would not happen in South County or Barrington or East Greenwich.” “This” refers to the on-again off-again closure for lack of funding of the World War II Memorial Park in Woonsocket. It is difficult to reconcile her charge of…
Three commenters, Oz, Rhody and Anthony, expressed the view under Justin’s post “Is Getting on the Ballot Half the Battle?” that the task of collecting signatures for a state or local candidate’s nominating papers can be accomplished fairly quickly with some diligence and focus on the part of the candidate. None of those commenters mentioned…