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5:46 PM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri enthused today about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's choice as John McCain's vice-presidential running mate, but other Rhode Island Republican delegates to the Republican National Convention said today they do not......
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2:23 PM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The governor of the smallest state has weighed in on the choice of the governor of the largest state as the running mate for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. In a brief statement his afternoon, Governor Carcieri congratulated Gov.......
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12:31 PM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau DENVER -- The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's 72nd birthday today will put a lot of attention on the question of whether he would be fit for the job. If he is elected, John......
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12:11 PM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal Washington bureau chief John E. Mulligan files this report as he leaves Denver, where he has been covering the Democratic National Convention: Don't get too caught up in the national presidential horse race polls between Barack Obama and John......
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9:39 AM Fri, Aug 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By JOHN E, MULLIGAN Journal Washington bureau One of the pleasures of the peanut gallery known as the Writing Press Stand is to hear the nation's leading scribes rehearse the instant impressions that they will soon commit to the printed,......
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7:38 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By maria caporizzo Email
Nicole Varella of Providence says she's very interested to hear what Barack Obama has to say tonight. Providence Journal photographers Gretchen Ertl and Andrew Dickerman asked people in downtown Providence today if they were planning to watch Barack Obama's......
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5:50 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island has been represented outside the Pepsi Center this week as well as inside the Democratic convention hall. The Ms. Foundation for Women is among the many groups that have noted the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with events......
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5:31 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rep. Jim Langevin did not have the kind of prominent speaking role at this week's convention that he has enjoyed in the past. But like the entire Rhode Island delegation, he has been busy with politics. On Wednesday, Langevin, who......
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4:16 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Barack Obama's campaign manager, a tactics-and-strategy wizard with a reputation for throwing zingers at the opposition, has a Rhode Island connection. David Plouffe is among the veterans of former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt's staff who went over to work......
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4:10 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton gave the last major speech of her 2008 campaign. Or perhaps was it the first of her 2012 campaign? She said vote-for-Barack enough times and at enough volume to protect her from accusations of trying......
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4:00 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Email
Anyone who covers a convention has to marvel at how little the locals care about it. I'm staying in the Highlands, a funky Denver neighborhood of renovated bungalows. The residents are overwhelmingly of the liberal -- some might say "far-left"--......
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2:19 PM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By News staff Email
Tonight, supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama are meeting at a downtown Providence restaurant to watch him accept the Democratic presidential nomination. A letter from Ryan Sullivan, the Rhode Island state director of the Obama campaign, invites supporters to......
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10:52 AM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Email
The Democrats' key message in this campaign is "change." But while the word is most associated with their presidential candidate, Barack Obama, it also applies to the party's members of Congress. As the Democrats' House membership expands, it is moving......
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9:03 AM Thu, Aug 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
After craning their necks all week to catch glimpses of the Democratic stars on the faraway stage at the Pepsi Center, Rhode Island's delegation was looking forward to the moment when the national spotlight would find them up in the......
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8:10 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
Here is the text of the prepared speech to be given by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, as provided by Reed's office in advance: Good evening, I'm Senator Jack Reed from Rhode Island. As......
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5:39 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau DENVER -- A congregation of politicians, medical professionals, lobbyists, and Hollywood stars gathered at the Denver Art Museum over salmon and arugula to agitate for something that can be in short supply at......
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5:29 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Few people in American politics know Joe Biden better than Thomas S. LaFauci of Cranston, who served as the Delaware senator's speechwriter from 2001 to 2007. "He can be a great orator,'' said LaFauci in an interview today. "When he......
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5:07 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank Williams' office this afternoon, a contractor was working on scaffolding along the edge of the room. The worker was installing 23-carat gold leaf on the detailed ceiling trim, part of what appeared to be......
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4:56 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Political Scene received an invitation today for a retirement party celebrating longtime Senate Fiscal Adviser Russell C. Dannecker. "After 28 years of hard work and dedication, it's time to take a permanent vacation," reads the ornate invitation, which came with......
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2:32 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
The Rhode Island Republican party is moving up, or at least moving across town. The GOP has packed up its headquarters in the Apponaug section of Warwick and moved into a more spacious location in the Airport Plaza on Post......
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1:44 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington bureau Sen. Jack Reed will be in the vanguard tonight as the Democratic Party's leading voices on defense and foreign affairs make a case for Barack Obama as commander in chief. They will also......
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1:02 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal White House bureau DENVER -- The last crackle of static over the disaffection of Hillary Clinton backers may not sputter out until the last delegate leaves Barack Obama's convention on Friday. But Frank Montanaro, R.I.'s......
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12:38 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal White House bureau DENVER -- The R.I. delegation is on board with the message spelled out on the plaques waved during Hillary Clinton's speech last night: "Hillary," "Obama," "Unity." But at this uncommonly unsettled Democratic......
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12:37 PM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight will undoubtedly show his passionate side; vice-presidential candidates traditionally are a presidential ticket's designated attack dogs. Rhode Islanders of a certain age will remember another time that Biden spoke from his......
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8:55 AM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Since the hilarious Prohibition-era reports of The Baltimore Sun's H.L. Mencken and before, the American political convention has been a great place to drink. The free-flowing tradition holds this week in the Mile High City, where the Democratic National Convention......
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7:52 AM Wed, Aug 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo / Charlie Neibergall Former President Bill Clinton listen to his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., address the Democratic National Convention last night. It's his turn to talk to the delegates tonight. DENVER (AP) -- The theme......
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7:28 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
In a sure sign that the State House is waking from its long summer slumber, the House of Representatives commission studying the state pension system will meet tomorrow for the first time since the General Assembly recessed back in June.......
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7:08 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo / Ron Edmonds U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., hugs her daughter, Chelsea, during a podium tour today at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton, who battled Barack Obama to be the party's presidential pick and still has......
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7:05 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Email
Media Matters for America, a liberal group that analyzes the media, has accused talk-show hosts on NBC and MSNBC of exaggerating the importance of Hillary Clinton supporters now making their anti-Obama feelings known in Denver. In doing so, they are......
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5:25 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The Republicans are here to rain on Barack Obama's parade. They are also here in the Mile High City, with a war room, anti-Obama buttons, some small street demonstrations and some big-name media hits. They've even got a counter slogan......
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4:43 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island DNC delegate Myrth York, an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy, has become reconciled to the New York senator's loss. But that doesn't mean the former gubernatorial candidate has softened her belief that women still face prejudice......
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4:20 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island delegates took their coffee this morning with Walter Mondale, the former vice president and longtime Democrtaic senator from Minnesota. Mondale, who was the party's nominee for president in 1984, joined in the partisan raves for Monday's program in......
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4:14 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Democrat Barack Obama commands a 20-point lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race among Rhode Island voters who were surveyed, according to a Brown University poll out today. The survey, conducted Aug. 18-20, also found that......
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3:12 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Elayne Burke is best known in East Bay as the proprieter of Chatelaine, the upscale women's clothing boutique on Bristol's waterfront. But this week in Denver, Burke, a Roger Williams Law School graduate and veteran of the Bill Clinton White......
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1:35 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Better late than never, the Democratic unity machine is chugging into gear, with all hands ready to cheer New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and most......
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12:51 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Some Rhode Island convention delegates put the speeches and the symbols into the context of a grand national campaign strategy. Some delegates put the same sights and sounds into the context of the......
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12:27 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Former Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty has his take on last night's Democratic National Convention proceedings. Insiders like himself -- and the many thousands of delegates, politicos and reporters here at the......
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12:03 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Charlie Neibergall Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., acknowledges the crowd at the end of his speech at the Democratic National Convention last night. Behind him are his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, and his......
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10:30 AM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Email
Denver's 16th Street Mall, a lively pedestrian thoroughfare filled with shops and eateries, is normally a festive place. This week, almost all the celebrants have been Democrats, in town for their national convention. But not all. A number of McCain......
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8:51 AM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The instant analysis from members of the Rhode Island delegation is in: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michelle Obama launched what shapes up as a successful passing of the torch to Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino:......
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8:25 AM Tue, Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Greetings from the Mile High City, and yes, we have a winner, kind of. Yesterday's Political Pop Quiz, you'll recall, asked this: Before Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, has any U.S. politician ever been chosen to run for vice president......
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9:32 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The suspense is over. U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has taken the podium in person on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. The ailing icon of the Kennedy political family, who recently underwent brain surgery, said, "As I look......
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8:52 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Journal editorial writer/columnist The crowds of convention-goers seeking the exits at the main terminal of Denver International Airport couldn't have helped but notice a charming wood map of the United States that assigns some pop cultural oddity......
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6:24 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Political Pop Quiz: Before Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, has any U.S. politician ever been chosen to run for vice president after two unsuccessful campaigns for president? First correct answer wins an electronic pat on the back. Post your answers......
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6:10 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
For the casual voter, a national convention may be a quick look at the headline speakers between (click) innings of the ball game. But for those in the game it is a vast bazaar of wares -- T-shirts, music, learned......
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6:05 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Policy positions are all well and good, but public officials get lots of chances to touch lives in a much more direct way, and people remember that sort of attention. Case in point: Former Rhode Island Gov. Bruce Sundlun's first......
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5:40 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo / Jae C. Hong Caroline Kennedy and her son, John Schlossberg, and daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, left, stand at the podium today as they tour the site of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The gathering begins today......
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5:09 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The conventions are coming. The Democrats begin in Denver today. The Republicans follow in St. Paul next week. You'll see Barack Obama and John McCain, of course. But there's a good chance you'll also see John King. He's an independent:......
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3:49 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Rhode Island is a galaxy far, far away from next week's Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., but you'd never know it with all the GOP star power expected in Newport this evening. Slated to attend a campaign money-raiser......
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1:52 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Scott MacKay Email
Tomorrow night's big bash at the Democratic National Convention will feature food from eight American cities, including Italian fare from the Old Canteen, a favorite on Providence's Federal Hill. The party theme is "A Taste of American Cities" and will......
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1:25 PM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Froma Harrop Email
Political junkies often treat elections as horse races, and the great hope for Democratic activists in 2008 is a thoroughbred named Turnout. Their dream come true would be for Turnout to win a trifecta -- young people, unmarried women and......
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11:30 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island's delegation to the Democratic National Convention is here, featuring more than one three-delegate family, politicos deploying to a full range of issue-oriented events and Sen. Jack Reed on tap for a supporting role later in the week. Tim......
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10:55 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
In this week's voter-registration push by Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis: Mollis is heading to the Bank of America headquarters at Kennedy Plaza tomorrow to register company employees to vote. Mollis' team says it hopes to sign up as......
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10:47 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
It's no secret that this week's Democratic National Convention is a political schmooze fest, but it's also a chance for Rhode Island politicos to hobnob with the power players from Hollywood. Among them, Emmy award-winner Joe "Joey Pants" Pantoliano of......
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10:30 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
DENVER -- U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is in Denver on the first day of his party's national convention. The Massachusetts senator is battling brain cancer and hadn't been expected to attend the convention. But two Democratic officials said he......
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3:10 AM Mon, Aug 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Preconvention jitters are a staple of these quadrennial extravaganzas, but the Democrats here to nominate Barack Obama for president this week are in a higher-than-usual state of anxiety. Consider the informal debate between a couple of Rhode Islanders at the......
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5:10 PM Sun, Aug 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Some excitement is beginning to build around one of the secondary suspense stories of the Democratic National Convention -- the possibility that the ailing patriarch of a storied political family, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, will make an appearance in Denver.......
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3:33 PM Sun, Aug 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Former Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, who recently joined former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee as a leader of Republicans for Obama, was spotted yesterday afternoon at Denver's Pepsi Center as workers readied the hall for tomorrow's kick-off of......
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