By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/28/2010 1:12 PM
This morning I filed my formal paperwork with the Secretary of State, making my bid for reelection as your lieutenant governor official.
Read more about my goals for the next four years (below), and get ready for an exciting few months leading up to the primary!
From my press release:
PROVIDENCE— Lt. Governor Elizabeth H. Roberts filed a Declaration of Candidacy with the Secretary of State's Office at 9 a.m., Monday, June 28, 2010, marking her bid for re-election...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/17/2010 2:31 PM
Yesterday I spoke at Bryant University’s 25th annual World Trade Day event, which focused on helping Rhode Island and New England to grow its manufacturing and exports in the international market.
As the national economy shows signs of picking up, we’re still facing some real challenges. This event explored the significant opportunities that are available in the manufacturing realm—especially advanced manufacturing, or those using cutting-edge technologies...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/11/2010 1:11 PM
Yesterday was a great day for my family. Nora, our younger daughter, graduated from high school. It was a day when extended family visited, and we talked about Nora and our lives with her from her birth, and we thought forward to college and where her life may be heading.
It is an experience families throughout Rhode Island are having over the next few weeks, proudly watching our surprisingly grown-up teenage children walk across a stage. They walk up those few steps as...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/9/2010 2:48 PM
Today, I gave the opening talk at the annual Hurricane Conference sponsored by the RI Emergency Management Agency—perhaps all the more vital this year both because of the flooding disaster we went through earlier this year and the active hurricane season hurricane experts are predicting.
Although it’s been years since a hurricane affected Rhode Island, we can’t become complacent—surely the floods of 2010 taught us that. And it’s important to review the lessons we learned from the March floods so we can effectively prepare if a hurricane threatens us.
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/4/2010 11:37 AM
I am deeply disappointed that the General Assembly has opened the door for cities and towns to reverse the phaseout of the regressive car tax through an amendment to the budget that passed in the House last night. From a release I issued today:
Today, Lt. Governor Elizabeth H. Roberts called on General Assembly leaders to reverse course on the rollback of the car-tax phaseout that is currently in the budget for the next fiscal year. The proposal, developed in an amendment...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/3/2010 12:15 PM
As we’ve talked about health care reform in the past year, Geisinger Health Systems has become one of the “buzz” names—in part thanks to several mentions by President Obama, who called them one of the “islands of success” in health care during his televised speech before Congress last fall. And it’s more than just buzz: Geisinger has made health care work, with both better quality of care and lower costs than national averages.
Later today (Thursday), Rhode Island will...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
6/2/2010 2:03 PM
Today I had the honor of speaking at the 2010 Rhode Island Salute to Small Businesses, sponsored by the Small Business Administration, where awards were given to outstanding small business owners in a variety of categories (for a full list of award-winners, click here).
While big companies often get the headlines, small businesses truly are the backbone...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
5/28/2010 1:19 PM
The TV meteorologists call
it the start of summer, but Memorial Day is so much more. Our lives and
our liberty are owed to those brave men and women who left their
families and put themselves in harm’s way for our freedom. And whether
they lost their lives on the field of battle, or returned to their loved
ones from the front, our service members truly deserve a moment of our
time and our thanks this weekend.
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
5/24/2010 4:11 PM
From the time I began volunteering as a 15-year-old at the hospital in my town through my career as a health care manager, policy analyst and elected official, improving our health care system has been a personal and professional goal of mine.
Toward this goal, tomorrow (Tuesday) I will be convening the Healthy RI Implementation Task Force, a group of health-care stakeholders I’ve brought together to address making the national health care reform law work...
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By Elizabeth Roberts on
5/18/2010 5:51 PM
Last night I had the honor of handing out 2010 Leadership Awards to exemplary students from Rhode Island’s high schools. I do this every May, and each time I’m reminded of the great potential of our state and hope for the future, represented by these young leaders who have already made a difference in their schools and communities.
This is also graduation season, a visible reminder of the impressive institutions of higher education in Rhode Island. We have a tremendous amount of young talent in this state attending our universities. We need to work to keep them here, contributing their skills and energy.
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