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FBI: Lieberman campaign to blame for crash its Web site

9:09 AM Wed, Apr 09, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

STAMFORD, Conn. -- Federal investigators have concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign caused the crash of its Web site the day before the Democratic primary with Ned Lamont. The FBI says it has found no evidence supporting......

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Carcieri to take questions on immigration issues in projo.com chat tomorrow

6:28 PM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Rhode Islanders will be able to talk with Governor Carcieri tomorrow about his stand on immigration issues, when he appears as the guest of an online chat hosted by projo.com. The live, hour-long chat is scheduled to start at 12:30......

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Candidate's surveillance MO a sign of the times / Photo

5:15 PM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

img alt="swanseasigns.jpg" src="http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/swanseasigns.jpg" width="512" height="341" /> Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Swansea candidate Michael Berube says his campaign signs were being stolen from a place on Route 6 at the intersection of Maple Street, where lots of local candidates have......

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Lieutenant governor's chief of staff is leaving

11:11 AM Tue, Apr 08, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts' chief of staff plans to leave his position on May 1, Roberts has announced. Paul Tencher has served as Roberts' chief of staff since her inauguration in January 2007. Tencher plans to pursue "outside opportunities," Roberts......

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State EMA's new communications coordinator, Kass, takes a major pay cut

9:47 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Steve Kass’ salary has been cut nearly in half. The governor’s former director of communications –– who was recently “loaned” to the state Emergency Management Agency after being replaced in the State House –– will now earn $66,919 a year.......

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House leaders' fundraiser

9:46 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

As has become tradition at the State House, this week’s legislative committee-action deadline was preceded by last week’s House Democratic leadership fundraiser. The event drew an estimated 150 lawmakers, lobbyists and other interested observers to the Roger Williams Park Casino......

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D.C. group says R.I. is youngster-friendly

9:45 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

This morning’s release of the annual Kids Count report was not the only good news for Rhode Island children in recent days. Last week, a report by the “Every Child Matters” Education Fund, a nonprofit agency based in Washington, D.C.,......

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Ethics Commission likely to OK Kerbel for panel

9:44 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

As the long, and sometimes mind-numbing, pension reform hearings got under way at the State House, it struck one of the commission members — Providence Mayor David Cicilline’s director of administration, Richard I. Kerbel — that he is one of......

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NEARI leader Crowley to Political Scene: Gotcha!

9:43 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Not every April Fool’s Day joke went quite as far and wide as Pat Crowley’s. But the deputy director of National Education Association Rhode Island — who is as famous for his appearances in a Bush mask and “mission accomplished”......

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Chafee book gets noticed

9:42 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

There was a wait of an hour and a half at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Bald Hill Road last Thursday when former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee signed his new political memoir, Against the Tide: How a Compliant......

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Infections-reporting bill on track for passage

9:41 AM Mon, Apr 07, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

A much-publicized proposal requiring hospitals to report all hospital-borne infections continued to breeze through the General Assembly last week, winning unanimous passage in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, even stood to thank sponsor Hanna M.......

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