By Kate Bramson Journal files / Connie Grosch PATRICK ROGERS PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee's former chief of staff and executive counsel, Patrick A. Rogers, is going back to private practice -- not to his former law firm, Edwards Angell Palmer & ... »
While I, like all of you political junkies, am practically main-lining the GOP Presidential primaries, they bring to mind a basic criticism I’ve had of almost every “outsider” political movement: they foolishly focus on electing a President. But that r... »
A new chapter in Rhode Island political history is set to start Tuesday, when Secretary of State Ralph Mollis’ office will begin issuing identification cards to confirm the identity of voters who lack a driver’s license, passport, or other recognized f... »
By Felice FreyerWESTERLY, RI -- Judge Brian P. Stern on Friday appointed Mark Russo, of the Providence law firm Ferrucci Russo, as the temporary "special master" overseeing the financially troubled Westerly Hospital. Stern, of Washington County Superio... »
Some holiday cheer for Providence hotel workers from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The appeals court has upheld the city’s `Worker Retention Law’ that gives hotel workers a right to keep their jobs for 90 days after a change in owner... »
RI ACLU executive director Steven Brown yesterday on the Occupy Providence protest:The ACLU fully supports the right of 'Occupy Providence' to engage in forms of peaceful protest at the park and elsewhere in the city in order to express their political... »
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras reaffirmed the city's plan to take legal action in order to remove the Occupy Providence protesters from Burnside Park. »
Police say the bullets hit a truck and the business, but no one is hurt. »
