• Home
  • :
  • :
  • Member Center
  • :
  • Make This Your Home Page
Advertising




M. Charles Bakst

Search Legal Notices
m. charles bakst 08/19/2008

How about starting with ‘I’m sorry’?
Thoughts on the Providence Retirement Board’s decision to award even a partial pension to the corrupt Frank Corrente:

08/17/2008

Bakst: 13 conventions, countless memories
In a ballroom in New York’s Waldorf Astoria, the Secret Service agent told me to wait on the other side of a door leading to a kitchen pantry.

08/14/2008

Bakst: John Edwards: Mr. Smooth is a phony
The front page of The New York Post featured a photo of former Sen. John Edwards, with a headline, “Edwards admits affair. HE’S A LYIN’ CHEATIN’ NO-GOOD HYPOCRITE!”

08/12/2008

GOP diary: Hello from E. Greenwich
Republicans can be hard to locate in Rhode Island, but they sure are interesting to talk with.

08/10/2008

M. Charles Bakst talks to Council 94 executive director about contract storm
Drive up Charles Street into North Providence, past Lancellotta’s Banquet Restaurant, and you’re at the home of Council 94, the largest state employees union.

08/07/2008

M. Charles Bakst: Memo to Darigan: Don’t dismantle state ethics law
Old words, new urgency.

08/05/2008

In public glare: Cicilline and his brother
I give Providence Mayor David Cicilline credit for getting on the phone yesterday and fielding questions on last week’s fund- raiser to help his brother, John, who is headed for jail.

08/03/2008

M. Charles Bakst remembers two powerful figures: Newport socialite Eileen Slocum and Boston criminal lawyer Richard Egbert.
You could hardly think of two more different people than Eileen Slocum and Richard Egbert.

07/31/2008

A governor chats with the people
I went to watch the governor do a town meeting — where all can come and ask questions and he can make his own points — and it was very interesting.

07/29/2008

Reed excited and he has a right to be
Sen. Jack Reed is riding high — you know, hobnobbing abroad with Barack Obama, appearing on Face the Nation, even seeing his name mentioned for vice president — but when we spoke yesterday he was most enthused about something else entirely.

07/27/2008

Tell-all memoir by a Bush White House press secretary raises questions about betrayal of trust
I can appreciate tell-all books by former public officials.

07/25/2008

M. Charles Bakst: Egbert was one of the world's great talkers
Richard Egbert was one of the greatest talkers I ever met, and I loved interviewing him, because he was bright, combative, colorful, and intense.

07/24/2008

Kempe debuts as Carcieri’s press secretary
I don’t envy Amy Kempe, Governor Carcieri’s new press secretary, but I do wish her luck, and I look forward to seeing how this 36-year-old public relations operative fits in at the State House.

07/22/2008

Rhode Island in search of a governor
Rhode Islanders made a mistake when they decided, starting with the 1994 elections, to switch to four-year terms for governor.

01/04/2006

M. Charles Bakst:
Mimi Burkhardt:
Editor, perfectionist
If you want to know the legacy of Mary Dolbier Burkhardt, a 52-year-old Providence Journal editor who died suddenly last Friday, listen to the reporters who worked with her.