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Photo: Baldly showing support for a sick colleague

7:57 AM Thu, May 01, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Journal photo/ Connie Grosch Six representatives and the governor's director of legislative affairs visited the Inner City Hair Salon on Smith Street in Providence Wednesday with a common purpose -- to have their heads shaved. From left to right:......

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Sen. Reed fields questions on high prices, war, more in projo.com chat

1:25 PM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Journal photo / Mary Murphy The Rhode Island Democrat answers questions from projo.com readers during the online chat held today from The Providence Journal newsroom. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed answered questions from projo.com readers ranging from what can be......

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Political Scene: Assembly may take another look at cell phone ban

9:24 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Remember the plan to ban drivers from talking on hand-held cell phones? It may be ringing again. Lawmakers did not include the proposal in their midyear budget revision last week, prompting some to pronounce the line dead. But House leaders......

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Picard’s vote twice cast likely to make history

9:23 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Representative, or shall we say Sen. Roger A. Picard, may be about to make history in the General Assembly. After handily winning last week’s special election to fill the District 20 (Cumberland and Woonsocket) seat of Sen. Roger R. Badeau,......

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Common Cause sees crisis ahead for Elections Board

9:23 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

In other election-related news, the government watchdog group Common Cause of Rhode Island has raised a red flag about the lingering vacancies on the state’s seven-member Board of Elections, saying the empty seats could soon create “a major political crisis”......

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Family Court’s Pagliarini leads national group

9:21 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Rhode Island Family Court chief of staff Ronald J. Pagliarini has been elected president of the National Truancy Prevention Association. “It’s a lot of responsibility and it’s an honor,” Pagliarini said. “I would hope that we can make a national......

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Empty-nester Whitehouses moving to Newport

9:20 AM Mon, Apr 28, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

And in this week’s real estate news: That For Sale sign on the front lawn of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Elmgrove Avenue house in Providence is not an optical illusion. The senator and his wife, Sandra, are selling the house and......

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