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November 4, 2007 - November 10, 2007 Archives


Lincoln's Twin River referedum vote tomorrow

9:44 AM Fri, Nov 09, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

LINCOLN — The quiet campaign for the town’s non-binding referendum on possible gambling expansion at Twin River will end tomorrow, with voters heading to the polls in an unusual weekend vote. The two questions on the ballot are: “Do you......

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Union leaders angrily demand that GOP chief resign

9:54 AM Mon, Nov 05, 2007 | | Comments (5)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

State Republican Chairman Giovanni Cicione’s description of labor unions as the “last vestige of institutional racism” has — no surprise — led a coalition of AFL-CIO affiliated unions known as Working Rhode Island to urge Governor Carcieri to demand Cicione’s......

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Caprio, Cicilline have healthy campaign chests

9:52 AM Mon, Nov 05, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Among those mentioned as possible 2010 candidates for governor, Gen. Treas. Frank Caprio and Providence Mayor David Cicilline remain champion fundraisers. A computer glitch — more specifically, a lapsed “domain” registration — at the state Board of Elections forced a......

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Primary Day change? Governor mulls veto

9:47 AM Mon, Nov 05, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

The General Assembly did its part to move Rhode Island’s presidential primary from March 4 to Feb. 5. But the move won’t become official until the governor agrees not to veto the bill. His office told Political Scene Friday that......

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Shelton dogs Carcieri

9:42 AM Mon, Nov 05, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Henry Shelton is at it again. And this time, he’s got a theme. The 77-year-old antipoverty activist is drawing from the 1952 Western classic, High Noon, in the George Wiley Center’s latest campaign to draw the governor’s attention to the......

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Whitehouse makes Comedy Central

9:41 AM Mon, Nov 05, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

The voting won’t begin until tomorrow on President Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey to be U.S. attorney general, but Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse — a former state attorney general — has already won some attention for his opposition to......

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