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7:08 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau  Email
PROVIDENCE - Facing legal challenges to at least three of the five General Assembly candidates appointed by state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione last week, state Republicans today filed an appeal with the state board of elections. State law allows party......
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6:53 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
The governor's office is in for a busy week. In an unusual move late Friday afternoon, the Senate transmitted a whopping 201 bills -- its entire roster of legislation approved in the final days of the session -- to......
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2:03 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON – President Bush has signed into law a bill that includes an immediate extension of benefits for workers without jobs in Rhode Island and other states with high unemployment rates. At a ceremony in the Oval Office, Mr. Bush......
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1:06 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
PROVIDENCE – Facing legal challenges to at least three of the five General Assembly candidates appointed by state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione last week, state Republicans intend to file an appeal today with the state Board of Elections and possibly......
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4:46 PM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Sen. Barack Obama may be in Unity, N.H., today cultivating party harmony, but earlier this week he was in Florida to push for another kind of togetherness. Obama traveled to Miami to address the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference......
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2:59 PM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
In the state Senate where debate is rare – and dissent even rarer – Sen. Leonidas “Lou’’ Raptakis, D-Coventry, has done the unusual. He has launched a political grenade aimed at taking out Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed,......
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12:56 PM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
WASHINGTON -- The Senate has not finished retooling the law that governs foreign intelligence surveillance, so Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has until after the Fourth of July recess to decide whether he’ll vote for it -- despite his opposition to a......
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11:56 AM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Brandie Jefferson Email
UNITY, N.H. -- More than 1,000 people are gathered so far today in the tiny New Hampshire village of Unity in anticipation of this afternoon’s rally, when Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama –– the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee......
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11:31 AM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island is among the states in line for an immediate extension of unemployment benefits provided in a bipartisan spending bill that the Senate sent last night to President Bush. Rhode Island workers who have already exhausted the......
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10:53 AM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Brandie Jefferson Email
At least five more Republicans are joining the party’s effort to crimp the Democrats’ overwhelming majority on Smith Hill. But state GOP Chairman Giovanni Cicione and Senate Finance Chairman Stephen Alves tell very different stories about how one — and......
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6:49 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Three more Republicans are joining the party’s effort to break the Democratic stranglehold on the city’s General Assembly seats. Ten Republican candidates declared their intention to run for the General Assembly yesterday, the deadline for filing individual declarations. The state......
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6:45 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said he is "disappointed" the U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a handgun ban in the District of Columbia. In a statement, Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, said he belives the nation's capital "will be less safe......
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6:00 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Michael Dorsey, who ran Barack Obama's Rhode Island primary campaign, has been selected as the Democratic presidential candidate'ss campaign chief in Montana for the general election in November. Dorsey, 34, is no stranger to Rhode Island. He was the chief......
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7:00 AM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Saturday morning we plan to upgrade the active projo blogs to a new version of the Movable Type software. All blogs will remain available during this process. Afterwards you’ll see a new look and some new features, and we’ll welcome......
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5:33 PM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, will face several challengers for his congressional seat heading into election season, according to candidate filings. Christopher Young, of 184 Angell St., Providence, has filed a declaration to run as a Democrat,......
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3:43 PM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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EAST PROVIDENCE -- Mayor Isadore S. Ramos declared his candidacy today for the Senate District 18 seat being vacated by Sen. Paul Moura. Moura, who has not said why he isn’t seeking reelection, switched to the Senate from the House......
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2:06 PM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state Senate returns for a one-day special session Thursday to confirm, or re-confirm, several judges or magistrates to the state's court system. Most of the appointees have strong connections to the General Assembly, and specifically the Senate,......
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1:01 PM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri plans to sign the state budget tomorrow at 1 p.m., the final step in finalizing the $6.9 billion tax-and-spend approved by the General Assembly last week. The plan will become law after it is signed, and......
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9:18 AM Wed, Jun 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline will share the podium with Michelle Obama tomorrow night at a New York City gala for the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council. The Democratic National Committee announced that the wife of the party’s presidential candidate,......
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5:47 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Despite the state Senate’s refusal to consider a bill requiring state lawmakers to pay a portion of their health-insurance premiums, the number doing so voluntarily grew during the closing days of the General Assembly. House Speaker William J. Murphy, D-West......
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5:36 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
The state’s Board of Elections has two new members, filling longtime vacancies just in time for the 2008 election season, which kicks off with tomorrow’s deadline for candidates to declare their intent to seek office. The Senate last week unanimously......
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4:58 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
As tomorrow's 4 p.m. deadline nears for filing declarations of candidacy, you can see some of those who are running for Rhode Island's local, state and federal offices on the Secretary of State's Web site. The information is being posted......
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4:54 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts is stepping down. Larkin Barker, 23, told Political Scene today that she has taken a job with Barack Obama's New Hampshire campaign. This is her last full week in Roberts' State......
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1:20 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON – The speaker's rostrum in the House of Representatives will be equipped with wheelchair lifts, Democratic and Republican leaders have announced, winning praise from Rhode Island Rep. James R. Langevin, who declared, "I have long said that I may......
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11:27 AM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Donna Perry, the state Republican Party executive director, announced today she is running against Senate Majority Leader Teresa Paiva Weed, a Newport Democrat, in the race for Senate District 13. Perry, of Jamestown, said in a news release today that......
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6:59 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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WARWICK -- Sen. John C. Revens Jr., a Warwick Democrat who began his State House career as a House page in 1965 and then won his own first legislative election in 1968 while a Providence College junior, announced today that......
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6:04 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON – Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy plans tonight to introduce a documentary film about a politician whose performance in a memorable campaign made it clear, in the congressman’s words, that he was not "not just reading off a set of......
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4:28 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Some of the unanswered questions about Governor Carcieri’s new penchant for videotaping the State House press corps have been answered. For those who missed the first chapter: Carcieri’s office asked a state employee to videotape reporters as they asked questions......
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3:12 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
It’s official: Democratic Rep. James R. Langevin will stand for reelection. Langevin filed today with the Secretary of State’s Office (which he occupied before he came to Washington) to run for a fifth term as representative of Rhode Island’s Second......
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2:12 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Rhode Islanders who intend to run for office have until Wednesday to make it official. Candidates for federal office must file declarations of candidacy with Secretary of State Ralph Mollis at the Elections Division, 148 West River St., Providence, Mollis's......
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12:17 PM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON -- Despite a veto threat from President Bush, the Senate is prepared to press ahead this week with a sweeping rescue of the housing market that could protect hundreds of thousands from foreclosure. With Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., in......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jun 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
State government may be awash in red ink, but Rhode Island taxpayers are still paying the rent on an empty office in Washington, D.C., that was once occupied by Governor Carcieri’s Capitol Hill lobbyist, a position that has been vacant......
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4:46 PM Sat, Jun 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
It's 4:40 p.m., and the House is still passing legislation this afternoon. After spending a few minutes on tributes for members who will be leaving the House, the legislators are back at work on bills. And they're moving fast. They're......
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1:38 PM Sat, Jun 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
Try to keep pace with what the General Assembly is up to by looking at their calendars, which list the bills being worked on. Or, at least, most of them, and perhaps not in the order listed. You can check......
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8:02 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
You can watch Rhode Island lawmakers make the hoped-for final push tonight as the legislative session draws to a close -- right from your own home. The General Assembly action will be showcased tonight on Capitol TV, Cox Cable Channel......
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5:56 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island's House members split today as the House passed a bipartisan deal to overhaul the ground rules on electronic surveillance, while protecting telecommunications companies from lawsuits over their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. After......
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5:42 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- You've got an issue. And you want to sound a clarion call for it outside the State House as lawmakers hand over a difficult state budget to the governor's pen. But about the sound system involved: Don't use......
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5:39 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Things are heating up for the House of Representatives tonight. So out came the ice cream. As late afternoon verged on evening, House members embarking on the crazed final day -- and night -- of the legislative session......
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5:31 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By maria caporizzo Email
PROVIDENCE -- A long night still ahead, the House late today passed a bill to quicken release of public records, among them police reports, in Rhode Island. The vote was 49 to 9, with opposition coming from Republicans in the......
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12:27 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Connie Grosch It was the Senate Finance Committee's turn yesterday to vote on the state budget after it moved to them from the House. From left, state Sen. Paul Moura, D-East Providence, committee member; Daniel Beardsley,......
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7:40 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- A Senate committee voted this evening to approve a bill sought by the criminal-defense lobby to automatically “quash and destroy’’ criminal records, no matter how serious the crime. The bill introduced by Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-Providence, was passed......
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5:09 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Frieda Squires Mike Garcia of Hope High School, Providence; Andrea DeBarros, Shea High School, Pawtucket, and Kevin Manuel, Mount Hope High School, Bristol, are among 30 students statewide who have been spent the week learning about......
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4:38 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy, one of state government's most powerful figures, announced today that he will seek re-election to the House. If he keeps his House seat, Murphy will also seek support in January for a fourth term as......
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4:20 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
WASHINGTON – Almost as soon as the Senate took up a bipartisan $300-billion deal today to pull the U.S. housing industry out of its downward plunge, obstacles to its passage appeared, including a veto threat from the White House. That......
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4:07 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A bill that would speed up the release of public records –– including police reports –– in Rhode Island is on its way to the House floor for a final vote. The proposal would amend Rhode Island’s access to open......
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2:28 PM Thu, Jun 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The 9-hour budget debate last night was just the beginning. After passing a budget, the House must now move on to the real work of voting on hundreds of bills still before them this session. Legislative leaders had......
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7:00 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- And cut? That's what a state budget amendment by Rep. Nicholas Gorham, R-Coventry this evening proposed to do to Rhode Island's film tax credit: cut it altogether and, he said, free up some $15 million for aid to......
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5:47 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- In the who-gets-the-credit award category for state budgets that close a state deficit, state Rep. Nicholas Gorham wasn't waiting for the budget to pass. "You must be dreaming," Gorham, a Republican from Coventry, said this evening on the......
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5:08 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- There was plenty of shouting over the state budget this afternoon, but there's no way it's all over. The House debate on the plan to close a $425-million state deficit turned fiery over illegal immigration. The raging national......
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2:52 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- There are protesters with signs, protesters wearing stickers, protesters just protesting. But missing so far from today’s scheduled budget vote are members of the House. The process was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the House Chamber,......
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1:42 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Rhode Island doctors are among the dozens of groups who have flooded the hallways of the State House this week pleading for last-minute action on a mountain of bills. Medical professionals “are screaming for passage” of legislation that would waive......
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1:36 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
It’s typo season on Smith Hill. With bills and budget amendments changing on the fly, grammatical mistakes are everywhere. Your high school English teacher would cringe. Some of the errors are innocuous, while others have serious implications for the substance......
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12:04 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state House of Representatives will convene today at 2 p.m. to approve a state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The budget -- which consists of at least 39 separate "articles" -- is aimed......
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7:22 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed had a sharp exchange this afternoon with a former Pentagon official during Senate testimony on the continuing revelations about the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Cuba by U.S. military personnel. The former Pentagon legal counsel,......
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6:40 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A Republican-turned-Independent, state Rep. Richard Singleton, disclosed to his House colleagues today that he has switched parties again so that he can lead “Democrats for McCain.’’ Having already announced that he is not running for reelection, Singleton, of Cumberland, said......
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5:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Rhode Island’s Democratic senators joined their partisans Tuesday in calling for Senate action to extend federal unemployment benefits beyond the standard 26 weeks, but Senate Republicans declined to take up such a measure. “Millions of Americans go out pounding the......
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4:13 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
John "J.R." Pagliarini, the governor's former deputy chief of staff, made an appearance at the State House today in his new role. He is now a lobbyist for higher education. He wears the green name tag on his gray blazer......
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3:36 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
It was an unexpected role reversal. While TV cameras filmed the governor at this afternoon’s press conference, the governor filmed the press. Carcieri’s office enlisted a state employee to film the event, or more precisely to film the reporters as......
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10:21 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is considering a pill form of chemotherapy that would allow him to stay home on Cape Cod during treatment for a brain tumor, his son U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said this weekend. Kennedy said his father......
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9:26 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Speaking of late nights, Rhode Island Republicans met late into the night Thursday and chose Rep. Carol Mumford, R-Scituate, as the party’s national committeewoman. Mumford succeeds GOP grand dame Eileen Slocum, of Newport. Slocum, 95, has been a party fixture......
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9:25 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Following news that Darrell West, long the public face of polling and punditry at Brown University, is leaving on July 1 to become vice president of the Brookings Institution, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the school announced that Marion Orr,......
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9:24 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Jim Brown will always be remembered by football fans of a certain age as the best running back of his time, and perhaps any time. Brown’s dazzling rushes enlivened many a dark late autumn Sunday afternoon in the 1960s in......
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9:18 AM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Three members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation have been recognized for various contributions to U.S. medicine. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse won laurels from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last week for his efforts to legislate and lobby for high-tech......
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6:05 PM Fri, Jun 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
A past and a present member of Rhode Island's congressional delegation offered recollections about Tim Russert, the moderator of NBC's longtime Sunday morning political program "Meet the Press," who died today at age 58. "The country has lost a dear......
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5:05 PM Fri, Jun 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The harried state budget season may be down to the final stretch. As they race to pass a budget a slew of yet-undecided bills, lawmakers have their fingers crossed that they’ll finish business and adjourn for the session......
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12:01 PM Fri, Jun 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Marion Orr, a political science professor and expert in urban politics, has been chosen as the new director of Brown University's Taubman Center for Public Policy, the university announced today. Orr succeeds longtime director and pollster Darrell West, who is......
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8:34 AM Fri, Jun 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Rhode Island Republicans have new leaders. The Republican state Convention, meeting in Lincoln Thursday evening, chose Rep. Carol Mumford, R-Scituate, as the party's national committee woman. Mumford succeeds GOP grand dame Eileen Slocum of Newport. Slocum, 95, has been a......
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6:05 PM Thu, Jun 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state Senate has approved bills to let high school students who meet qualifications work as polling place supervisors and moderators around Rhode Island. Students would be supervised by the ward or precinct board member and would not......
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2:25 PM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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Mindy Myers, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's chief of staff, is taking a leave of absence to work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Myers, 32, who was the campaign manager of the Rhode Island Democrat's successful 2006 campaign, will be the......
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2:07 PM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
COVENTRY -- Calling some of his work at the General Assembly “frustrating,” Rep. Victor G. Moffitt, a Republican representing District 28, said he will not seek a fourth term. Moffitt, 58, made his announcement yesterday, citing a desire to spend......
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11:20 AM Wed, Jun 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Today is the deadline for the state's registered Republican and Democratic voters to disaffiliate so they can vote in whichever primary they choose on Sept. 9. But the Senate has green-lighted a bill that could change that, extending the deadline......
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4:59 PM Tue, Jun 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
In an open letter today to Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano, Common Cause Rhode Island decried vacancies on the Rhode Island Board of Elections. The letter reads in part: “We at Common Cause Rhode Island are deeply concerned that there......
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2:40 PM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Republican Jonathan Scott, who lost a 2006 run for the U.S. House against Democratic incumbent Patrick Kennedy, said today that he will seek a rematch against Kennedy in the 1st District. Scott is scheduled to make his formal announcement at......
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11:30 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE -- The House Finance Committee has marked a major juncture in this year’s waning legislative session by posting notice that it may unveil -- and vote -- on Wednesday on an as yet unseen version of the new state......
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10:23 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
At Sunday's Democratic state convention, party leaders rounded out the delegation that will attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. The convention, of course, chooses the party's presidential candidate. As has been the case for many years, the......
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9:40 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Several Smith Hill faces are on the growing list of candidates lining up for a shot to succeed Michael T. Napolitano as the mayor of Cranston. First, State House lobbyist and former Republican mayoral candidate Allan Fung expressed interest in......
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9:37 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Smith Hill politicians last week welcomed a group of young politicians and policy makers from Indonesia. The group traveled to Providence as part of a trip to learn about state and local governments in this country and to talk about......
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9:31 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is set to return home to Massachusetts today to recuperate from surgery for a cancerous brain tumor, according to his son Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. The senator, who had been at Duke University Medical Center in......
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2:36 PM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Is there a role for former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a Barack Obama Administration? Might this title fit: administrator, Environmental Protection Agency? So goes the speculation in one of the better-known political blogs, Daily Kos, which raised Chafee’s name......
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11:56 AM Fri, Jun 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON -- With a blast at ``the failed policies of President Bush,’’ and a tribute to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ``bond with the people of Rhode Island’’ Sen. Jack Reed pledged his support to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today, calling......
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3:43 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
The Providence Republican Party will announce its slate of candidates for statewide and federal office on Monday night . City Party Chairman David Talan said that the party will unveil Republican challengers to incumbent Democratic U.S. Representatives James R. Langevin......
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3:20 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
The state Ethics Commission has yet to weigh in on the legality of Governor Carcieri’s hiring of his niece-in-law, but Carcieri has won a round in his battle with WJAR-Channel 10 over the station's handling of the story, first reported......
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2:58 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Leading Rhode Island Democrats meet in a state convention Sunday in West Warwick to endorse candidates for federal offices and choose a slate to round out the state delegation of 37 delegates and alternates slated to attend the Democratic National......
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2:43 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
WASHINGTON -- A new Senate report debunking the Bush administration’s pre-war claims about the threat from Iraq underlines "a disturbing pattern’’ of twisting the facts about important domestic and national defense issues, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse charged today. In a Senate......
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2:40 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
A visit to Governor Carcieri’s media office Wednesday turned up a curious sight: 33 brand new Gateway computer monitors, stacked high and still in their packaging. Thirty-three new monitors during a budget crisis, you ask? Don’t point fingers too fast.......
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2:01 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Deadlines loom for registered Republican and Democratic voters who want the freedom to cross party lines during the September 9 primaries for state, local and Congressional offices and for the candidates who plan to run those races. Voters affiliated with......
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1:45 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Governor Carcieri traveled to Washington D.C. before sunrise on Wednesday for a journey that saw him back in Rhode Island shortly after lunch time. He was in the nation’s capital to sit on a panel, brought together by Education Week,......
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4:41 PM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Several high-placed Rhode Island supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said today they are ready to support Sen. Barack Obama, who clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday. Three major Clinton supporters, William Lynch of Pawtucket, the Democratic state chairman......
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4:07 PM Wed, Jun 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Three-quarters of Rhode Islanders want to scrap the Electoral College and choose future presidents by national popular vote, according to a poll conducted for a national advocacy group that is pushing for the switch. The proposal is aimed at preventing......
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6:41 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
With the Democratic primary season wrapping up today with contests in South Dakota and Montana, Rhode Island supporters of Barack Obama will gather in Providence tonight to see what happens. According to the Rhode Island Web site for the Obama......
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6:37 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters in the Rhode Island congressional delegation said today that they still back her presidential candidacy. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. James R. Langevin both indicated that they might reassess their endorsements if Clinton stays......
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12:52 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
For those of you wondering when the governor will make good on his threat to veto, for the second year in a row, a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum jail sentences for drug crimes, it may be awhile. The Constitution......
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11:49 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sen. Edward Kennedy had ``a restful night's sleep'' after brain surgery and is recovering with no complications. In a statement issued to The Associated Press today, aides to the Massachusetts Democrat said, ``He is experiencing no complications,......
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1:08 PM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed isn't giving a timetable on when he'll endorse a Democratic candidate for president, even as the final nominating contests loom. The Rhode Island Democrat said Monday during an appearance in Providence that he's looking......
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12:20 PM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's Rhode Island supporters are putting together a fundraiser focused on the local health care community. The event is scheduled for June 17 at 5:30 p.m. at a location to be announced. The guest speaker will be......
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9:41 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Within the next two weeks, state Republicans and Democrats will begin doling out their congressional endorsements with a major unanswered question still burning as Political Scene went to press: Will the GOP be able to muster anyone to run against......
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9:39 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
In another sign that state government is in trouble, birds of prey have begun circling Smith Hill. Literally. A state Department of Health employee reported last week that a hawk had killed a seagull in the north parking lot. The......
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9:37 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
A month into his move across the rotunda, Rep. — whoops, we mean Sen. — Roger A. Picard has landed himself several committee appointments. On Friday he was named to the Senate Labor and Corporations committees. The new senator will......
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9:37 AM Mon, Jun 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Sen. Leonidas Raptakis has logged his share of frequent-flier miles this spring. Raptakis traveled to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, in the nation’s capital, 10 days ago as the featured speaker in the National Maritime Day Celebration –– honoring the......
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