Monique Chartier
This is interesting. Sovereignty for certain segments of the state’s criminal justice system. A federal appeals court has upheld Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s right to refuse to turn over accused murderer Jason Pleau for federal prosecution that could result in the death penalty. … Chafee issued a written statement late Thursday that said, “I am gratified…
So the pension reform proposal which General Treasurer Raimondo and Governor Chafee have been working on was leaked to the Providence Journal’s Kathy Gregg late Thursday. Congrats to Ms. Gregg for landing this scoop. Check out Andrew’s post for the projected legislative scheduling of the actual bill (still being finalized), a round-up of recent press…
FOX broke this a few minutes ago; h/t Fox News Radio’s John Gibson. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned. The event is set to take place…
[With apologies for prematurely putting up the rough outline of a beta verison of a draft of this post earlier this morning.] Yesterday, in a briefing by Deputy Treasurer Mark Dingley to the State Retirement Board, we got more details as to the pension reform plan to be proposed by the Governor and General Treasurer…
EastBayRI reports – exclusively, it appears – in an article that also describes the latest development (mediation) in the stalled Bristol/Warren teacher contract negotiations. Mr. Leidecker is the lead negotiator for the NEA-RI in those talks. … Mr. Leidecker, negotiator for the Rhode Island chapter of the National Education Association (NEARI), was recently found guilty…
Must. Resist. Wisecracks. And. Speculative. Correlations. ( Via the Sacramento Bee.) A new report providing state-by-state analyses of the prevalence of any mental illness including serious mental illness (SMI) reveals significant variation across the country. For example, among adults aged 18 or older, the rate of serious mental illness in the past year ranged from…
A contingent from “Occupy Wall Street” is now gearing up to “Occupy Providence”. Earlier this evening, WPRO’s Matt Allen interviewed Bob Plain. He is covering the Occupiers’ Rhode Island campaign, which is currently in the planning stage. (Hey, Bob, when you get a minute, can we hear more about the hand signals employed at their…
John Loughlin, currently serving in Iraq, sent a letter to WPRO (was this via snail mail?), mainly describing his duties and schedule but also touching on living conditions. Below is an excerpt; inexplicably, WPRO did not put up the entire letter. I found his description of the living quarters especially enlightening. Keep in mind that…
The ProJo’s Kathy Gregg reports. (All emphasis added.) In a lawsuit filed in Superior Court on Wednesday, the tribe contends the law calling for the referendum is both “unconstitutional and vague.” Why? The tribe hung its legal argument on the same requirement in the state Constitution that tripped up its first two efforts to get…