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The New York Times continues its strong Rhode Island-based reporting on immigration, using a lengthy front-pager today to highlight the meager returns generated by the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility for its host community of Central Falls, and how...
Providence City Solicitor Joseph Fernandez isn't allowing his nascent 2010 campaign for AG to completely cast away the possibility of working in the Obama administration. Last Friday, during a taping for next Sunday's broadcast of WPRI/WNAC-TV's...
The Rhode Island Family Life Center is an important voice in the local cause of criminal-justice reform, so this is troubling news: Providence, RI, December 15, 2008-- As the growing impact of Bernie Madoff's outrageous scheme unfolds nationwide,...
Providence City Solicitor Joseph Fernandez, whose candidacy for AG in 2010 was first reported here , has a fundraiser set for Monday: Host Committee Kim Ahern, Mary Kim Arnold, Chris Blazejewski, Pat Crowley, Kas DeCarvalho, Jorge Elorza, Devin Driscoll...
I'll cedit the departing chief justice for mostly remaining accessible through his tenure. Let's roll a few clips. Williams sat down with me for a Q+A when he succeeded Joseph Weisberger, and I noted a bit of the background: Although judges are...
Ariel returns to the pages of the Phoenix with a look at Stronger than Their Walls , the Family Life Center's new documentary about the need for probation reform and the word on some upcoming screenings. A precondition for state inmates' release...
US Attorney Robert Clark Corrente scored a win with this week's conviction of Robert Urciuoli . Yet given the relative lack of forward public momentum on Operation Dollar Bill -- which Corrente himself once identified as an active investigation of...
From the US attorney's office: A federal jury today found Robert A. Urciuoli, the former president of Roger Williams Medical Center, guilty of corruptly employing former Rhode Island Senator John Celona to advance the Medical Center’s interests in...
This just in from the RI affiliate : Last December, a major snowstorm hit the state when Governor Carcieri was out of the country. Traffic gridlock left some school children stranded on buses for hours. Upon his return, Governor Carcieri announced that...
Richard Egbert, the quintessential super-tough defense lawyer, has died at age 61 . Over the years, he represented a number of clients in Rhode Island, including, of course, Buddy Cianci during his Plunder Dome trial in 2002. As part of a profile written...
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch joins Steve Aveson, Arlene Violet, and myself this week to talk about immigration, his opposition to a federal shield law , his support for FISA , and other topics during WPRI/WNAC-TV's Newsmakers . The show will...
As he gears up for 2010, AG Patrick Lynch has assembled an eclectic and sometimes contrary portfolio of issue-related stances. As I wrote back in January : The AG seemed a progressive champion — and he incurred the wrath of Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas...
Here's the reax from AG Patrick Lynch : Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today issued the following statement regarding the opinion by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, State of Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., et al, that reverses...
Via BeloBlog : The Rhode Island Supreme Court today reversed a lower court’s judgments in favor of the state in its suit against companies that manufactured and sold lead paint in Rhode Island. The court reversed the Superior Court’s decision calling...
Stacey Veroni, who is familiar because of her efforts against domestic violence, is getting a significant promotion in the office of AG Patrick Lynch . She is the daughter of Tony Pires, a former House Finance Committee chairman who unsuccessfully ran...
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