Rhode Island Government News

The presidents of the state's three public colleges and about 300 other non union employees of Rhode Island's higher education system will take a 1 percent annualized pay cut, in response to Governor Carcieri's call for all state departments to reduce expenses.

Governor Donald L. Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to work during one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression.

An independent feature comedy film in Rhode Island, by Rhode Islanders is about to premiere and it's called "Lumberjacking."

Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, ...

Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation will host Rhode Island Recycles Day on Saturday, November 21 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Central Landfill at 65 Shun Pike in Johnston.

The Rhode Island Department of Health Director has been a constant public presence this fall.

The Rhode Island Department of Health has confirmed that there have been two more H1N1 deaths in the Ocean State.Health officials say both victims were adult females between the ages of 45-55 years old.

Reacting to the Governor of Rhode Island's decision to veto a bill that would have allowed gays to claim the bodies of their loved ones should they die, Colbert turned up the satire.

United States Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse met with LGBT Rhode Islanders on Nov. 12 to discuss gay rights issues.

Governor Carcieri landed on national television Monday night as the "star'' of a biting -- but laugh-out-loud -- segment on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report'' about his veto of a bill that would have given gays the right to claim the bodies and make funeral decisions for their same-sex partners.

Governor Carcieri has signed into law a bill that provides a state tax break for organ donors.

Transcript Until earlier this month, Rhode Island was the only place in the country where prostitution was legal across an entire state - because of an unintended loophole in the law.

Two days after vetoing a bill giving domestic partners the right to make funeral decisions for each other, a conciliatory Governor Carcieri told a gay-rights activist group he is open to supporting a domestic-partnership law that bestows many if not all of the rights of marriage, without the right to marry.

Rhode Island gubernatorial hopeful blasts governor's veto of a bill allowing domestic partners to make funeral arrangements for one another.

Generally speaking, the best argument in favor of gay marriage is that it is, quite simply, a 14th Amendment issue.

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Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri vetoed S211 , a bill that restricted use of RFID to track children and motorists without a warrant.

A socially conservative governor who has fought for years against gay marriage in Rhode Island has slightly softened his stance by suggesting he may back a domestic partnership system offering legal protections for same-sex couples.

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch has criticized Governor Donald Carcieri's veto of a bill that would have given gays and lesbians the right to make funeral arrangements for their deceased domestic partners.

Given the fact that Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri is solidly in with NOM and giving speeches about "traditional marriage" to the Massachusetts Family Institute, this thaw is encouraging.