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December 31, 2007 Archives

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Go, Tannenbaum

9:28 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Christmas Eve was not a merry time in the State House. There were no family dinners, no Christmas carols. And state workers were on ladders in the rotunda, dismantling the state Christmas tree. They had stripped the tree of nearly......

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Bucci goes by the book; state tree doesn't see Christmas

9:26 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Comments (3)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

It was the day before Christmas and all through the Department of Administration’s Conference Room B, not a creature was stirring except for state Personnel Administrator Anthony Bucci. Bad poetry aside, Bucci was indeed the only one to show up......

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Pink slips Wednesday

9:24 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Christmas brought a brief reprieve for those in state government facing layoffs. Had the next action date on the Carcieri administration’s layoff calendar not been lifted, letters would potentially have gone out on Dec. 24 informing dozens of employees that......

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Assembly on Web

9:18 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Legislators who missed Frank Ferri’s pre-Christmas swearing in need not fear. YouTube is here. Footage of Ferri’s inauguration, along with a smattering of hearings from the last session, are featured on the popular video-streaming Web site, courtesy of Capitol TV.......

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Movie star? That’s Rich

9:17 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Santa brought Political Scene a surprise this year. When former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee failed in his reelection attempt, one of the casualties was his gregarious spokeswoman Debbie Rich, a former radio personality perhaps best known during the holiday......

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Watson to join McCain camp in Iowa on Friday

9:16 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

House Minority Leader Robert Watson, R-East Greenwich, will be busy with tomorrow’s opening of the 2008 General Assembly session, but his heart and mind will be elsewhere, nervously watching the polls in Iowa in advance of the Thursday GOP caucuses.......

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