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January 6, 2008 - January 12, 2008 Archives
6:46 PM Thu, Jan 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney  Email
Thirteen presidential candidates will be on Rhode Island’s March 4 primary ballot, the final slate of candidates for that contest, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis announced today. Today was the deadline for the secretary of state’s office to certify......
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11:07 AM Thu, Jan 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) -- Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run......
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10:33 AM Wed, Jan 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
When former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr. arrived in New Hampshire to campaign for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, he hoped she could narrow the gap between Sen. Barack Obama to within the single digits. But he wasn’t expecting a positive......
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9:12 AM Wed, Jan 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., second from left, and his wife Cindy, second from right, share a laugh with Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker, left, and Traveling Press Secretary Brooke Buchanan, right, this morning on his campaign plane en......
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7:27 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama drag their message through Elm Street in Manchester, N.H. today. Will Barack Obama capitalize on his big win in the Iowa caucuses and defeat fellow Democrat Hillary......
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5:05 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl John Edwards campaign volunteer Maggie Thornton, 21 of Shawsville, Va., cheers for the Democratic candidate after he thanked volunteers at his Manchester primary campaign headquarters today. But the end result will be up to......
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3:23 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The first place that New Hampshire residents cast their ballots in their first-in-the-nation presidential primary is in the tiny northern town of Dixville Notch. The polling place is actually inside The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, in "The Ballot Room."......
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2:18 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Gretchen Ertl Showing his support for Hillary Clinton, Louis Elisa, of Boston, stood outside of a Manchester, N.H., polling location today.......
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1:54 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire pollster Andrew Smith, walking along a street in this politically prime city, said some of the state's smaller communities are reportedly running short of ballots today in a primary turnout that could be......
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1:35 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Ray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman, said today he was heartened by the large primary turnout and especially that his party's turnout appeared to be higher than Republican turnout. Independents, however, can vote in either......
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12:47 PM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
MCT photo / Chuck Kennedy Supporters of many stripes turn out to sway voters at the last minute on primary day in Peterborough, N.H. MANCHESTER, N.H. -- It looks like a theme park for political campaigns here today. And......
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11:24 AM Tue, Jan 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
With sunny skies, mild temperatures and bustling crowds, it could have been the Patriots' opening day. But throngs of New Hampshire residents this morning rose before sunrise and braved the crowds for a different type of contest: the first presidential......
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11:11 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
One day ahead of the closely monitored New Hampshire presidential primary, seven presidential hopefuls have reserved a spot for their names in the Rhode Island primary. Municipalities have until Thursday to validate the signatures of the remaining candidates, several of......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Republicans have promised to boycott all legislative grants in the coming year and have threatened to sue the General Assembly leadership to stop the disbursement of the modest checks to local libraries, senior centers and Little Leagues. “Going forward......
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9:27 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The 2010 election is just under three years away, but at least one candidate has decided that it’s never too early to get started. Providence City Solicitor Joseph M. Fernandez filed organizational papers with the Board of Elections to campaign......
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9:26 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The new year brought a spate of new appointments to Rhode Island House legislative committees. Speaker Murphy has named Jan P. Malik, D-Barrington, chairman of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. That chairmanship was vacated when Peter T. Ginaitt,......
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9:23 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
R U VAIN? Rhode Islanders apparently are not, at not least when it comes to their license plates. The state known for big egos and bad drivers ranks a modest 21st on a nationwide list of percentage of cars sporting......
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9:21 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Governor Carcieri’s cost-cutting plan has sliced only 61 jobs off the state payroll thus far, but among them was the position of Josephine DiRuzzo, who is the president pro tempore of the all-Democrat Providence City Council. DiRuzzo’s state job, as......
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9:19 AM Mon, Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
And finally, in this season of new beginnings, the General Assembly has a new leader of a different sort. Richard W. “Rick” Singleton has assumed the unofficial title of leader of the Assembly’s independent caucus. While it may sound good,......
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6:57 PM Sun, Jan 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
See what the candidates have been up to in New Hampshire today, as they head toward the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Tuesday. On the Democrat side: MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed Sunday heading into the slushy......
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