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Whitehouse's global warming panel at URI this month

12:51 PM Fri, Aug 08, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

With a dire warning about how global warming might damage the Ocean State, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has organized a local session of the Senate committee in charge of such environmental issues. "This issue is real, time is of the essence,......

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 Tags  global warming   URI   whitehouse  

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McCain's mom coming to Newport

12:48 PM Fri, Aug 08, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

John McCain has no plans to travel to the Ocean State this month. But his mother does. Roberta McCain, 96, is scheduled to headline a Newport fundraiser Aug. 25, according to an invitation from the McCain camp, with the backing......

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Gas pumps and politics coming to Rhode Island

8:56 AM Fri, Aug 08, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Running low on presidential politics? The folks at the Obama campaign will pump out some talking points on energy issues today as motorists top off their tanks at gasoline stations in Providence. ``What better time to talk to people about......

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Update: Obama camp hires Rep. Sullivan as RI director

6:16 PM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Steve Peoples    Email

State Rep. Ray Sullivan has been hired to lead Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama's Rhode Island operations. The campaign released a statement Thursday afternoon naming the 31-year-old Coventry Democrat as the campaign's state director. Sullivan becomes the first paid......

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 Tags  Barack Obama   Rep. Ray Sullivan  

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Saturday is the deadline to register to vote in Sept. 9 primary

4:28 PM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Susan Areson    Email

Saturday is the voter-registration deadline for Rhode Island's primary election on Sept. 9. Each city and town has made accommodations to allow residents to register on Saturday, the deadline, according to Secretary of State Ralph Mollis's office. Locations in every......

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 Tags  deadline   primary election   voter registration  

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Obama camp hires Rep. Sullivan as RI state director

2:54 PM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

Democratic presidential hopeful, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has hired state Rep. Ray Sullivan to serve as the campaign's Rhode Island state director. The 31-year-old Coventry Democrat confirmed the move this afternoon. Sullivan will lead Obama's campaign efforts in Rhode Island......

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 Tags  Obama   Rep. Ray Sullivan   state campaign director  

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Request for home heating money goes to D.C., a month later

11:28 AM Thu, Aug 07, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Cynthia Needham    Email

Rhode Islanders may be settled into the dog days of August, but Governor Carcieri says he's looking ahead to winter. The governor's office yesterday released a statement saying Carcieri has joined other Northeast governors in requesting that President Bush increase......

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 Tags  Bush   Carcieri   home heating   LIHEAP   Northeast governors  

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Wanted: Citizens to claim the federal aid they are owed

10:49 AM Wed, Aug 06, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Attention, government customers: Don't let that federal largess go begging! That will be the theme -- not in so many words -- of a pair of events next Tuesday that members of Rhode Island's congressional delegation are promoting to show......

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 Tags  economic stimulus   foreclosures   Rep. James R. Langevin   Sen. Jack Reed  

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Supreme Court delays layoffs of 5 sheriffs

7:18 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Cynthia Needham    Email

The state Supreme Court has stepped in to delay the layoffs of five state sheriffs who said they were unfairly laid off by the Carcieri administration, but who lost their case when they went to court. In a decision late......

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 Tags  Governor Carcieri   layoffs   Rhode Island sheriffs   Superior Court   Supreme Court  

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Caprio to join state treasurers on the Vineyard for pension forum

6:57 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Cynthia Needham    Email

State Treasurer Frank T. Caprio is headed to Martha's Vineyard. But don't expect him to log much beach time. Caprio is one of three state treasurers asked to deliver opening remarks at next week's World Pension Forum, a three-day conference......

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 Tags  Frank Caprio   Martha's Vineyard   treasurers   World Pension Forum  

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Governor has yet to respond to Council 94's court filing

5:39 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Cynthia Needham    Email

The Carcieri administration has not yet filed a Superior Court response to the objections set forth by Council 94, the state employees union that has formerly opposed its plan to impose higher health insurance costs on state workers who rejected......

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 Tags  Carcieri administration   Council 94   health insurance   temporary restraining order  

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Zaccaria challenges Langevin to 20 debates before election

5:02 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Cynthia Needham    Email

As he tries to boost his name recognition in the campaign against Democratic U.S. Congressman James R. Langevin, Republican Mark Zaccaria has offered up a challenge: 20 debates in 20 towns before November's election day. "I look forward to a......

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 Tags  debates   James R. Langevin   Mark Zaccaria   Rhode Island Congressional District 2  

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Whitehouse joins bid to ban harsh interrogation techniques

2:33 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- Before they departed for the congressional summer recess, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and several Senate colleagues joined in a renewed effort to forbid U.S. intelligence personnel to use certain harsh methods of interrogation. The senators introduced a bill,......

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 Tags  interrogation techniques   President Bush   Senate bill   Sheldon Whitehouse  

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