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January 2007 Archives
2:58 PM Tue, Jan 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri will deliver his annual State of the State address tonight, focusing on education, the environment and energy, according to his office. The governor will announce three "major new initiatives" in those areas, according to his office.......
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1:35 PM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Citing a failure to address illegal immigration at the federal level, two members of the General Assembly plan to submit legislation this week to discourage illegal aliens from coming to Rhode Island. "We decided that Rhode Island could......
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9:34 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
08:34 AM EST on Monday, January 29, 2007 Little more than a year after Governor Carcieri gave him a coveted — albeit unpaid — seat on the State Investment Commission, political operative Jeff Britt has quit. In a late-December resignation......
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9:33 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of lobbyists, you may want to keep an eye on your mailbox. Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis was in the process Friday of mailing what-gives letters to 89 corporations and interest groups with lobbyists at the State House......
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9:32 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Lest you think you are missing something, this was the question the Ethics Commission’s staff lawyer Jason Gramitt faced from a freshman lawmaker when he came to the State House last week to give House members an ethics refresher course:......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Rep. Peter G. Palumbo, D-Cranston, made his eighth annual trip to Nicaragua this year to provide free dental care with Northeast Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity. The group travels to a different village in Nicaragua each year to provide general......
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9:30 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
As the 2008 presidential race takes shape, one Rhode Islander will be working for the campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain. Christian Winthrop will be the Arizona Republican’s deputy campaign manager in New Hampshire, slated to be the site of......
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9:27 AM Mon, Jan 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A committee of lawmakers that oversees the state lottery — but has no official power — has made a few personnel moves. The influential Permanent Joint Committee on State Lottery switches its chairmanship between the House and the Senate. The......
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6:01 PM Fri, Jan 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Political news junkies, the week ahead may be yours. Coming up: The sentencing of a former state senator for corruption, the arraignments of two CVS executives in a related case, and the release of grand jury testimony from......
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7:05 PM Thu, Jan 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy said tonight he will endorse, raise money and work for the underdog campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination of Connecticut's Sen. Christopher Dodd, a veteran senator who is also close to Kennedy’s father, Sen.......
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5:33 PM Wed, Jan 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Photo courtesy of Congressman Langevin's office Actor Michael J. Fox joined U.S. Rep. James Langevin as his guest to the president's State of the Union address last night. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has become an outspoken proponent......
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5:27 PM Wed, Jan 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Rhode Island's Jack Reed wasn't hard to find during last night's State of the Union address. Though he was sitting among a sea of Democratic senators on the right side of the House chamber, he was positioned a couple seats......
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1:31 PM Wed, Jan 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democrats' losing presidential candidate in 2004, does not intend to run again in 2008, a Democratic official said today. This official said Kerry intends to seek a new six-year term in the......
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6:13 PM Tue, Jan 23, 2007 | Permalink |
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U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has added the chairmanship of a military subcommittee to his roster as the 110th Congress gets under way. The Rhode Islander, a West Point graduate and former Army Ranger who has emerged as a Democratic leader......
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8:49 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Clark Greene, deputy chief of staff for Governor Carcieri, has accepted a new job: chief of staff and policy director for the state Department of Education. Greene, whose salary will be $121,898 a year, has worked for the state......
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8:48 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Last year, former state Sen. Thomas R. Coderre was at the State House pressing for changes to state laws that affect recovering drug and alcohol addicts. This year, he will take the same message to a wider audience. On Dec.......
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8:45 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
One state lawmaker and one House staffer are adding judicial branch duties to their legislative branch experience. Rep. J. Russell Jackson, D-Newport, was appointed Municipal Court judge for the City of Newport on Jan. 2. The post pays $28,290 a......
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8:41 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Congratulations are in order for state Rep. Edwin R. Pacheco. The Burrillville Democrat 25, wed Claudia Santana, 21, on Jan. 11 at The Towers in Narragansett. Pacheco was appointed to the Burrillville School Committee at age 20 and was elected......
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8:37 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
When Sen. David E. Bates, R-Barrington, recently bought a raffle ticket, Lady Luck was on his side. Bates won the second annual Big Brothers of Rhode Island “Corvette or $50,000 cash” raffle. He serves on the group’s advisory board. The......
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8:34 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is coming to town this week to raise money for his possible presidential run. The Republican will have a $1,000-a-head cocktail party at 6 p.m. Saturday at The Westin Hotel in downtown......
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8:32 AM Mon, Jan 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
In the credit-where-credit-is-due category, new Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis last week made it infinitely easier to find out which corporation, organized labor group or industry trade association has both a lobbyist at the State House and a lawmaker......
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3:12 PM Thu, Jan 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Rep. James Langevin announced today that he has been named the chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and Science and Technology. In the previous Congress, Langevin served as the ranking member on the Subcommittee on......
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4:09 PM Wed, Jan 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has been busy. Less than two weeks after taking control of the House, the group has already dealt with stem cell resarch, implementing the Sept. 11 Commission recommendations, raising the federal minimum......
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1:05 PM Wed, Jan 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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The situation is Darfur is worsening, says U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, and it's time for the Bush administration to pursue a "more aggressive Plan B." Reed joined a group of 20 senators -- including four Republicans -- today in sending......
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2:29 PM Tue, Jan 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama today took the initial step in a presidential bid that could make him the nation’s first black president. Obama filed papers creating a presidential exploratory committee, a move he announced on his Web site.......
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12:37 PM Tue, Jan 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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The word is out. Rep. James R. Langevin has released the name of the "mystery guest" who will accompany him to President Bush's State of the Union address next week. Longtime actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease,......
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12:41 PM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The topic of racial profiling is coming to Smith Hill. The General Assembly has announced plans to unveil a "comprehensive racial profiling bill" during a State House press conference Tuesday afternoon. Less than two weeks ago, the state......
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11:31 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Some of Rhode Island’s largest corporations have opened their checkbooks to pay for Governor Carcieri’s inaugural ball. Dunkin’ Brands, owner of Dunkin’ Donuts was the largest sponsor, shelling out $15,000 for the celebration on Jan. 3. Bank of America, Verizon,......
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11:30 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The Dr. Martin Luther King State Holiday Commission will hold its annual celebration today at 4 p.m. in Ebenezer Baptist Church, 475 Cranston St. in Providence. The celebration will include remarks by state, federal and religious leaders as well as......
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11:29 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In office less than two weeks, new state General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio has already reshuffled his top staff. For starters, his office announced last week that it would not, after all, hire a former state lawmaker who was in......
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11:28 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
With the swearing in of new politicians, come new staffers. Four days after Sheldon Whitehouse officially succeeded U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, Whitehouse’s office announced that his campaign spokeswoman, Alex Swartsel, will serve as communications director. Swartsel, a Florida native,......
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11:26 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Besides all the newly elected senators and representatives, there’s one more new face at the State House. John Conti started work last month as the policy analyst for the House of Representatives. Conti, of Cranston, is a 1987 graduate of......
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11:23 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The governor’s office is seeking nominations for the 2007 Rhode Island’s Anchor of Hope Award, which was created last year in honor of those affected by The Station nightclub fire. The award honors those who have acted above and beyond......
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11:22 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Still looking for the perfect 2007 calendar? A calendar available now at CVS stores features works by Rhode Island artists. Proceeds from the calendar’s sale support the Healing Arts Program at Lifespan Hospitals. “With this calendar, all Rhode Islanders will......
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11:19 AM Mon, Jan 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And finally, we bring you one final snapshot of this month’s inauguration. After the event, the state’s five general officers had a lot of handshaking to do. For nearly two hours they stood in the State Room shaking the hands......
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6:43 PM Fri, Jan 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin has a secret. A spokesman for the Rhode Island Democrat sent a message to the press this afternoon regarding President Bush's State of the Union address on Jan. 23. Langevin "will announce an exciting State......
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4:52 PM Wed, Jan 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed's office released a transcript from a news conference today in which Reed, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined former NATO commander General Wesley Clark in condemning President Bush's plan to send more troops......
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7:10 PM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island's junior senator continues to add more staff. Four days after officially replacing U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Sheldon Whitehouse's office said today that campaign spokeswoman Alex Swartsel will serve as communications director. Swartsel, a Florida native, previously worked in......
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11:32 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON -- Republican Mitt Romney began his drive for the presidency in earnest today, gathering his national fundraisers in Boston and having them call their network of friends and colleagues in a push to raise the first of an estimated......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
There was plenty of pomp and circumstance when the state’s five general officers were sworn in last week. And, as we always try to provide at Political Scene, here is a breakdown of the costs for the one-hour event. The......
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9:30 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House and Senate leaders invited Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin -- and a parish priest from Burrillville -- to the State House to bestow their blessings on the General Assembly’s opening-day session. No other faith had a speaking role......
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9:28 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The first day of this year’s legislative session was one of self-congratulatory speeches, photos with family and a chance for people in the State House to reunite with those they might not have seen since July. In the Senate, it......
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9:27 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It’s long been known in the State House that Senate President Jospeh A. Montalbano wants to become a judge in the state or federal courts. But last week he publicly showed a brief glimmer of that ambition. Montalbano serves as......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Normally, when lawmakers are sworn in to office they promise to be “true and faithful to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” and to support the “Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of this......
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9:21 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Most lawmakers showed up to last week’s inauguration in suits. But Sen. Daniel J. Issa, D-Central Falls, decided to break out a tuxedo as he has for all of his past swearing-in ceremonies since arriving in the Senate chamber in......
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9:19 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
At the start of his second term, it appears that Governor Carcieri might be looking to pare down his staff a bit. Last week, word spread through the State House that there might be some personnel changes coming in the......
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9:18 AM Mon, Jan 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy, D-West Warwick, and Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox, D-Providence, traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to be at the U.S. Capitol for Sheldon Whitehouse’s swearing-in as Rhode Island’s junior senator. The two were invited by......
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6:58 PM Thu, Jan 04, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Special to The Journal / Linda Spillers It may have seemed like Old Home Week for the newest member of the U.S. Senate, Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, who was sworn into office today in Washington, D.C. He greets......
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6:19 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Connie Grosch Seven-year-old Elliott Palumbo is ready to lead the House members in the pledge of allegiance before the start of the 2007 legislative session today. His father is Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-Dist. 16, Cranston. PROVIDENCE......
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6:14 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy plans to hold a "winter celebration and centennial party" at the end of the month in honor of a special friend. And the General Assembly plans to honor the same man tomorrow afternoon. Both events are......
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4:20 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Rhode Island sent three state lawmakers to Washington, D.C., last month for a conference put on by the Center for Policy Alternatives. Rep. Edith H. Ajello, D-Providence; Rep. Arthur Handy, D-Cranston; and Sen. Juan M. Pichardo, D-Providence; attended the three-day......
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4:17 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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A group of Rhode Island political figures and community leaders have urged Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to seek the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. In a letter to Obama mailed Dec. 14, the group, called "Rhode Islanders for Obama," requested......
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4:12 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Sandra Thornton Whitehouse, the wife of U.S. Sen.-elect Sheldon Whitehouse, has returned to her $100-an-hour job as an environmental consultant to lawmakers at the Rhode Island State House. First hired by then-House Speaker John B. Harwood in April 2000, Sandra......
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4:05 PM Tue, Jan 02, 2007 | Permalink |
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Governor Carcieri is getting a 12-percent pay raise. The raise, his first since he took office in January 2003, will boost his salary by $12,623 to $117,817 a year. Under state law, the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, general treasurer......
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12:15 PM Mon, Jan 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Tuesday at noon the state’s five general officers will be sworn in. The public is free to attend the inauguration ceremony and a ball a day later. Anyone attending the ceremony must be in their seats on the south lawn......
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