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16 Sep, 2008 8:04 pm
... other Indian organizations filed briefs in support of the Secretary. Merits Briefs I. Petitioners' Merits Briefs Petitioners Governor Donald Carcieri, the Town of Charlestown, and the State of Rhode Island each filed separate briefs on the merits ...
to a time other than the moment of enactment, it was the specific application of that statute, rather than the term itself, Carcieri argues,
that made it "nonsensical" to read "now" as referring to the time of enactment. Lastly, to take the parcel into ...
9 Feb, 2007 6:04 am
Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri declared in a Feb. 1 letter to Weaver's Cove Energy CEO Gordon
Shearer that the emergency response plan for the proposed Weaver's Cove LNG terminal in Fall River, Mass., "will be a State plan developed under the direction of the State."
Carcieri also said that "the State's initial efforts at...planning [have] been delayed and frustrated by Weaver's Cove['s] refusal to pay
expenses already... ...
11 Nov 7:15 pm
Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri (R) has vetoed a bill that would have allowed domestic partners
to provide for the burial of their loved ones, just as spouses and blood relatives are entitled to do under state law. In a veto message, Carcieri said he rejected the bill because the one year minimum requirement for the domestic partnership is not enough to establish a "lasting bond." There's
also no reliable way ...
26 Oct, 2007 5:53 am
Gov. Donald Carcieri (R-R.I.) has released a statement praising the recent U.S. Coast Guard decision
to deny waterway suitability to the Weaver's Cove LNG regasification project. Gov. Carcieri said, "While I understand that Rhode Island must
find new sources of affordable energy, bringing liquefied natural gas up Narragansett Bay is not the answer."
22 Feb, 2007 2:04 pm
... to its attorney general, that will recognize Massachusetts same-sex marriages as marriages without qualification. The Higher Education Board announced that it would follow Lynch's
advice. Rhode Island media reportted that the state's Republican governor, Donald Carcieri, who is
opposed to same-sex marriage, was studying Lynch's letter before announcing his position on the issue. Recently, the state's Supreme ...
22 Aug, 2007 2:02 am
... abortion and a menorah lighting by a Jewish group have been permitted. Religious and civil liberties groups and state officials, including Governor Donald Carcieri, have all called for the policy to be changed. Rev. Eliseo Nogueras, resident of the Hispanic
Ministerial Association of Rhode Island, pointed out that Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams who left Massachusetts because of religious persecution.
21 May, 2008 10:40 am
Rhode Island may be small, but when it comes to tackling the problem of undocumented workers, they think big. Last month, Governor Donald
Carcieri issued an executive order encouraging law enforcement officials - from state police to local cops - to determine the immigration
status of anyone taken into custody and take immediate steps to deport those who are here...
16 Jun 4:36 pm
... . The law allows three state-regulated and licensed compassion centers to dispense pot to those with medical needs: In landslide votes of 68-0 and 35-3, the Rhode Island General
Assembly today overrode Gov. Donald Carcieri's veto of legislation to allow the licensed, regulated
sale of marijuana to seriously ill patients. Rhode Island will now become only the second state (after New Mexico) to license and regulate medical marijuana dispensing. The ...
18 Jun 2:00 am
[JURIST] The Rhode Island General Assembly [official website] approved a medical marijuana bill [H 5359 text, PDF] Tuesday, overriding a veto from Governor Donald Carcieri [official website]. The legislation seeks to establish three state-licensed dispensaries to provide
marijuana for patients who qualify. Patients will be issued a registry identification card and will be allowed to possess up to
10 Oct, 2006 6:04 pm
... this list. Expands Advisory Council - NH and RI: Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri signed
H.B. 7546 on July 7 that changes the composition of the permanent advisory commission on traumatic brain injuries and identifies the type of expenditures that can be paid by the ...
shaking infants and children under the age of five. On July 10, Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri signed H.B. 6903) that establishes the Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Initiative calling for ...
16 Aug, 2007 5:54 am
Governor Donald L. Carcieri (D-R.I.) released a statement praising the decision of the state's
Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to deny Weaver's Cove's application to dredge sections of Mount Hope Bay. Gov. Carcieri said that
the DEM's decision "is another important step in our efforts to block this potentially dangerous project." Gov. Carcieri renewed his pledge to
oppose the Weaver's Cove LNG proposal.
29 Oct, 2008 11:10 pm
... calls "this impasse" over who gets to speak first, or at all, in the first half of the argument in Carcieri v. Kempthorne (07-526). Court
aides have tried repeatedly to get ... trust for the tribe. All three petitioners - Rhode Island's Governor Donald L. Carcieri, the state itself, and the town of Charlestown - were united in the claim that the federal ... course, the Court's possible new insistence on just
one advocate. Gov. Carcieri and state Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch now are agreed that there ...
11 Dec, 2007 8:34 am
... , the couple lived together for a decade before they got married. The marriage collapsed two years later. In a statement, Governor Donald
L. Carcieri of Rhode Island and at least one group that opposes gay marriage praised the ruling. "I believe this is the appropriate result
based on Rhode Island law," Carcieri said. "It has always been clear to me that Rhode Island law was designed to permit marriage, and therefore
divorce, only between a ...
1 Feb, 2007 12:25 pm
... Massachusetts v. EPA Tricia K. Jedele, Special Assistant Attorney General, RI Office of the Attorney General Andrew M. Hodgkin, Executive Counsel to Governor Donald L. Carcieri Thompson Webb III, a world renowned paleoecologist and paleoclimatologist and contributor to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 1990s-2001 reports. Janet Freedman, RI Coastal Resources Management Council. The event, titled ...
1 Mar, 2007 3:01 pm
Read it here. ADDED (3.1.07 6:10pm): This italicized sentence is placed at the end of the Chief Justice's speech: On February 28, 2007, the day after this address to the General
Assembly, Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri abandoned his proposal to place state employees on
unpaid leave. Why is it there?
10 Nov, 2007 7:57 pm
November 10, 2007, NY Times Rhode Island to Reclassify 17-Year-Olds By KATIE ZEZIMA Rhode Island criminal courts will again treat 17-year-olds as juveniles after Gov. Donald L. Carcieri let a bill repealing a four-month-old law become law without his signature....
11 Dec, 2007 5:20 pm
... DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2921; (800) 662-5188 (Toll Free in RI) TTY: (202) 224-7746 E-mail Web Form: http://chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm Web: http://chafee.senate.gov Governor
Honorable Donald L. Carcieri Office of the Governor 222 State House Providence, RI 02903-1196 Phone:
(401) 222-2080 E-mail: rigov@gov.state.ri.us Web: http://www.governor.state.ri.us Official State Web Site Web: http://www.state.ri.us ...
30 Mar, 2008 11:29 am
Rhode Island is getting into the local law act as well. The Associated Press reports: By Linking the presence of undocumented workers to the state's financial woes, Gov. Donald L. Carcieri signed an executive order that includes steps to combat...
10 Jul, 2008 2:15 am
Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri ignored the wishes of a majority of the state's voters and
promoted some misconceptions about the U.S. Constitution in vetoing a National Popular Vote bill, argues Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor and writer at The New Yorker. Hertzberg, who
offered his arguments in favor of the national popular vote during a plenary panel discussion called "Picking the President," at the 2008 ACS National Convention, says the states could
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10 Nov 7:32 pm
Huh? Rhode Island's Governor Donald L. Carcieri vetoed a bill giving domestic partners the right to
claim the bodies of - and make funeral arrangements for - their partners. The governor wrote the following in his veto message: "This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past
few years of the incremental [...]
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