This week on Political Roundtable, Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri talks about the budget, renewable energy, and his biggest regret in his seven years in office.  Here's WRNI's political reporter, Ian Donnis.

The Ayiti Cherti Haitian Film Festival is running all this weekend at Brown University.  Brown is holding the event to raise money for the earthquake ravaged nation - and to showcase a side of Haiti that's easily overlooked: it's diverse artistic and cultural history.

In "Dead Man's Cell Phone," Sarah Ruhl's strange and strangely compelling dark comedy, no one is quite what they seem, everyone is a model of ambiguity.

By FLO JONIC -- A controversial plan from the mayor of Providence to subject the city's police to random drug testing is off.  Mayor David Cicilline rescinded the order yesterday saying the public had "miss-heard" its intent.  This is a dramatic and surprising about face by Cicilline. 

William J. Brown was born a free black man in Providence in 1814. His African-born grandfather had been enslaved by the historic Brown family and his father was employed on the East Side farm owned by Moses Brown.

The scandal that emerged last week in the Providence Police Department comes at a bad time for Mayor David Cicilline and highlights the challenges mayors face when running for higher political office. WRNI Morning Edition host Bob Seay and Political Analyst Scott MacKay discuss those obstacles.

By IAN DONNIS -- In what's shaping up to be a year of dramatic political changes in Rhode Island, one of the big questions is, who will succeed Patrick Kennedy in Congress?  Another one is, what will it mean to Rhode Island when Kennedy leaves office next January?   The state could be hit hard -- since Kennedy is a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. 

By ELISABETH HARRISON -- Providence school officials have picked a reform plan aimed at addressing low test scores at five city schools. Four of those schools will implement a so-called re-start model that calls for district and union officials to work closely on re-design plans.  

By FLO JONIC -- Stop and Shop customers won't have to make a decision about crossing a picket line.  The supermarket chain's 40,000 New England workers have unanimously okayed a new contract, ending months of tense negotiations and averting a strike.

By MEGAN HALL -- Three Providence Police officers have been arrested in a state police drug investigation.