Clik here to view.
Board of Governors looking into Chafee docs leak
J.R. Pagliarini, left, with Chafee in February Earlier: What’d Chafee’s campaign manager actually do? A new wrinkle in the resignation of Chafee campaign manager J.R. Pagliarini has emerged in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who shot J.R.? The Pagliarini affair, Day 2
J.R. Pagliarini, left, with Chafee in February The R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education hasn’t figured out yet whether it received the jobless benefits documents leaked to damage Chafee...
View ArticleIf Pagliarini’s innocent, why not hire him back?
WPRO’s Dan Yorke made what I thought was a good point during his just-concluded interview with J.R. Pagliarini and Chafee ally Stephen Erickson: If Pagliarini didn’t do anything wrong, as at least...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Pagliarini blowup might never have happened
Projo front page, 10/15/10 … if he hadn’t resigned so abruptly on Thursday morning. At least, that’s the sense I got after hearing WJAR’s Jim Taricani on WPRO-AM this morning. Anonymous e-mailers have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maurano stands by story on Caprio, Pagliarini
Steve Maurano, left, is standing by his story that former Higher Education Commissioner Jack Warner – and not Judge Frank Caprio – offered ex-Chafee campaign manager J.R. Pagliarini the job that led to...
View ArticleCity v. PPL lawsuit escalates battle over branches
Flash! The City of Providence has filed a lawsuit against Providence Public Library for failing to make repairs at the seven branches. This is the latest salvo in a long-running battle over control of...
View ArticleLeaked docs were opened when higher-ed board got them
I’m on the run this Friday afternoon, but I just received a statement from Steve Maurano, spokesman for the R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education, the state agency chaired by Judge Frank Caprio...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spend your Saturday night with the CD2 candidates
They say Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week, but it won’t be if you spend it watching my comrade Tim White moderate a debate between the candidates for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional...
View ArticleRhode Island’s jaw-dropping jobs deficit
Remember 1987? Shoulder pads? “Golden Girls”? DiPrete in office, not jail? Around the time I started at WPRI, I was astonished to discover something else about 1987 – namely, that Rhode Island’s...
View ArticleProvidence Public Library calls Cicilline ‘a petulant child’
What would Marian the Librarian say? The Providence Public Library just put out a press release responding to the city’s lawsuit against it – first reported by WPRI.com – over the condition of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wishful thinking from Caprio on 38 Studios
38 Studios' Curt Schilling and Todd McFarlane Frank Caprio has again suggested that the $75 million taxpayer-backed bond sale for 38 Studios might not be completed, WRNI’s Ian Donnis reports. Here’s...
View ArticleWould Chafee really sue the EDC board?
My jaw dropped during our Oct. 6 gubernatorial debate when Lincoln Chafee suggested he might file suit against Gov. Donald Carcieri for backing the 38 Studios deal: “I guess the best I can advise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Counting down until Cicilline, Loughlin debate
The two men vying to succeed U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy as the congressman from Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District – Democrat David Cicilline and Republican John Loughlin – will meet tonight for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cicilline, Loughlin give CD1 voters a real choice
Now that’s what I call a debate! There’s no question that voters in the 1st Congressional District have a clear choice as they decide who they want to send to Washington as a successor to U.S. Rep....
View ArticleClik here to view.
There’s still a race for mayor of Providence, too
Angel Taveras won a smashing victory over his two opponents in the Democratic primary for mayor of Providence last month, and with no Republican candidate – plus the capital city’s liberal tilt – most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Projo.com’s latest paywall plan – Diet Projo?
The Providence Journal’s publisher, Howard Sutton, issued a memo yesterday explaining what’s happening with the paper’s long-gestating plans to make readers start paying for some Projo.com content,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Absentee ballots drop 22% from four years ago
The hard-fought race for governor may be keeping political junkies on the edge of our seats, but it didn’t lead to high demand for absentee ballots. The secretary of state’s office tells me Rhode...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A local buyer eyes The Globe; what about the Projo?
The big story in New England’s media world this morning is the news that a group of investors led by a 37-year-old Wellesley, Mass., entrepreneur is preparing an unsolicited bid to buy The Boston Globe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barney Frank spending heavily to hold his seat
Frank in the Oval Office last year With less than eight hours to go before WPRI releases the results of our exclusive 4th District poll, it’s becoming ever clearer how seriously U.S. Rep. Barney Frank...
View ArticleGet ready to pay more at the grocery store
The other night I complained that David Cicilline and John Loughlin were pandering to elderly voters by supporting increases in Social Security benefits even though the government’s measure of the cost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Republican Governors Association buys Robitaille ads
The Republican Governors Association is making a big investment in Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille’s campaign less than two weeks before voters go to the polls – a sign the...
View ArticleBarney Frank up by 12 points in new WPRI poll
Republican Sean Bielat is giving 15-term U.S. Rep. Barney Frank his most competitive reelection race in years, according to our new WPRI 12 poll being released on air right now. The survey of 400...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cicilline has nearly twice as much cash as Loughlin
With three weeks to go before the general election, Democrat David Cicilline had nearly twice as much money left as his Republican opponent John Loughlin in the race to succeed to succeed U.S. Rep....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another month, another worrying RI jobs report
When is a drop in the unemployment rate bad news? When it’s mostly because you’re losing workers, not gaining jobs. Rhode Island’s jobless rate fell from 11.8% in August to 11.5% in September. Sounds...
View ArticleSchilling wants 38 Studios to be the #1 game publisher
38 Studios Chairman Curt Schilling may have retired from Major League Baseball, but he’s still swinging for the fences in his new role as head of the video game company set to get a $75 million loan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Robitaille nears Caprio in new Rasmussen poll
• New: RGA’s Robitaille buy down the drain after it misses deadline to deliver ad Rasmussen is out with a new survey of 750 likely voters about the Rhode Island governor’s race, conducted on Oct. 21....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scott Brown: ‘Dead man walking’ or Mr. Popular?
Last month, Politico wondered whether U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., might be a “dead man walking” after the Bay State’s Democratic Party managed to buck the national Republican tide and win every...
View Article38 Studios gets another chunk of its $75M loan
38 Studios had a good reason to firm up its May 1 target date for relocating to Rhode Island – it was worth nearly $10 million to the company. The EDC just confirmed to me that the company recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Steven O’Donnell 101 – more on RISP’s next leader
O'Donnell is sworn in as U.S. Marshal in 2009 This afternoon, Governor Chafee is set to introduce U.S. Marshal for Rhode Island Steven O’Donnell as his pick to be the next commander of the Rhode Island...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Saturday Morning Post: Quick hits on politics & more in RI
Welcome to another edition of my weekend column – as always, send your takes, tips and trial balloons to tnesi@wpri.com. For quick hits all week long, follow me on Twitter: @tednesi. 1. Scientists now...
View Article
