An amusing tale in radioland. The ProJo has the story:
Shades of Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods, Elliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford: What might be called an affair affair has arisen in Rhode Island radio-land.
WHJY has dropped commercials from a Web site known as AshleyMadison.com, which bills itself as a provider [...]
The Projo just picked it up:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Myrth York, a mainstay in local Democratic politics, has announced that she’s backing Tom Sgouros’ candidacy for general treasurer.
“Since the early 1990’s, Tom has worked alongside and for progressive candidates — like me — and community organizations,” [...]
Associated Press and projo.com reports
Rhode Island's two Democratic senators -- Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse -- joined their colleagues in supporting a test vote early Monday morning on President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul.
All 58 Democrats and the Senate's two independents held together against unanimous Republican' [...]
projo.com photo / Andrea Panciera
As the snow approached, the last of the garden playthings were belatedly brought under cover -- except for one. By Sunday morning at 9:30, at least a foot of snow made a new mattress on the rope swing in this [...]
The first major snowstorm of the season is being forecast for southern New England this weekend.
What timing. While it might mean a white Christmas, it may also interfere with shopping, parties and holiday travel.
If you find yourself in the midst of the storm, we're eager to have your reports.
Give' [...]
And the ProJo continues to evolve before our eyes. On the front page today: a piece labeled "analysis" by State House reporter Steve Peoples that suggests Governor Carcieri left himself little option but to propose steep cuts to cities and towns by foreclosing other budget-cutting possibilities - layoffs and [...]
It's been a week since the Boston Globe ran a front-page story, in its Sunday edition, on the August ouster of RISD museum director Hope Alswang, and no follow-up by the ProJo.
The breakthrough in the Globe piece: the paper obtained a copy of a letter Maeda sent to Alswang before her [...]
ProJo columnist Edward Fitzpatrick casts a gimlet eye on the new biodegradable/compostable/recyclable Blue Cross office building and sees right through to the fancy new offices, cafeteria and gym with their sweeping views of Waterplace Park and beyond. The costs of this new building [...]
Great news, covered here in the Projo and here at RIFuture. Here’s the statement he’s posted on his new website:
Statistician, writer, and public policy researcher, Tom Sgouros, Jr., announced today he will seek the Democratic nomination for Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer [...]
Photo (cc) Providence Public Library
The ProJo has a very good comprehensive story on the Metro Transit Study which is to be officially released on Thursday. Really, it is a good story, the best, most balanced story on RIPTA I think I’ve ever [...]
UPDATE: The Projo has an update on the eviction, and plans to care for the animals.
ORIGINAL,12/8: Fortunately Dr. Ernest Finocchio, head of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, appears to be on top of the dire [...]
Over 100 people were killed in a fire in Perm, Russia. The building was a fire trap, and someone set off pyrotechnics.
No Rhode Islander could miss the similarities. ProJo.com has more. [...] The ProJo's parent company, A.H. Belo, has been skewered over the last 24 hours after sending a memo to employees at its flagship paper, the Dallas Morning News, announcing that some editors at the paper will start reporting directly to managers who oversee advertising - blurring the traditional line [...]
The Providence Journal, buffeted by declining circulation and advertising revenue, has re-hired three laid-off copy editors to do part-time, sporadic work.
John Hill, president of the Providence Newspaper Guild, says he does not read the move as a sign of a marked improvement in the paper's financial health - but rather, an [...]
Have you served with the armed forces in Afghanistan? We'd like to hear your opinions on President Obama's strategy for the war, based on your experience.
If you'd like to share your views with a reporter, e-mail us at pjnews@projo.com, with your name and phone number. Put Afghanistan in the subject [...]
ProJo reporter Randall Edgar, who has been covering Cranston of late, will take Cynthia Needham's spot in the State House bureau, columnist Bob Kerr tells us.
Needham left the post in recent weeks to become the paper's chief economics reporter, leaving a hole in the three-person bureau.
The ProJo has maintained its [...]
It has always been a little difficult explaining to the uninitiated exactly what the Steel Yard is. It just isn’t like anyplace or anything else — and until reading today’s article in the ProJo my understanding was incomplete. Gina [...]
We probably disagree more frequently than we agree when it comes to economic development policy, but he’s right on here, from the Projo:
I strongly believe that the public sector should encourage the continued expansion of our colleges and hospitals. The state and local governments benefit handsomely from the presence of [...]
We probably disagree more frequently than we agree when it comes to economic development policy, but he's right on here, from the Projo:
I strongly believe that the public sector should encourage the continued expansion of our colleges and hospitals. The state and local governments benefit handsomely from the [...]Given the option between a tax cut and more education funding (yes, there often is a tradeoff), this story from the ProJo should give some guidance.
There are 74,700 Rhode Islanders out of work, but leaders of one emerging industry — bioscience — say they can’t find enough qualified [...]
Thanksgiving Day means a holiday for the 7to7 breaking news blog and its staff.
So, projo.com won't be serving up the usual menu of breaking news all day long.
But we do expect to publish as needed, and we'll be on the job if major local news breaks.
As usual, we will carry [...]
By Neil Downing
Journal staff writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Journal Co. is studying the possibility of charging a fee for a portion of the news and information it currently provides at no charge on its Web site, projo.com.
Howard G. Sutton, The Journal Co.'s chairman, publisher, president and chief [...]
