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3:26 PM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- "We are now skydiving without a parachute," Rep. James R. Langevin said this afternoon as the $700 billion rescue plan for the financial system was defeated in the House of Representatives. "I......
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6:30 AM Mon, Sep 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON _ Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's mental health parity bill appears to be down to its last shot in the legislative ping-pong that has frustrated supporters for months. A ``clean'' version of the bill overwhelmingly passed the House last......
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5:06 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- After a two-day cliffhanger over whether their first debate would take place, John McCain and Barack Obama take aim at the ultimate record: most-watched presidential debate ever. The standard was set in 1980, when 80.6 million......
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1:24 PM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP file photo The first televised presidential debate in U.S. history took place in 1960, between Sen. John F. Kennedy, at the lectern, and Vice President Richard Nixon, at right. Between them is moderator Howard K. Smith. The big......
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11:45 AM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island College in Providence will host a public forum on tonight's presidential debate between Republican nominee Sen. John McCain and Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. McCain had called for a postponement of the debate until Congress could agree......
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10:43 AM Fri, Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed has stepped out of the negotiations over the proposed package to rescue the financial system and plans to fly to Mississippi later today for the presidential debate between Democratic......
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7:26 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
EAST GREENWICH -- If you're waiting for Sen. Joseph Biden at the Alpine Country Club in Cranston, he may be a little late. His red, white and blue-colored chartered plane touched town at Northstar Aviation at T.F. Green Airport in......
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6:53 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin said that today's White House signing of legislation to improved the lot of the disabled was "one of the most exciting things I've been part of since I've been in Washington.'' The Rhode Island......
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6:43 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Governor Carcieri is scheduled to be a guest tomorrow on Bloomberg Television's "In Focus" program to talk about Rhode Island's renewable energy program and the announcement that Deepwater Wind will develop a large off-shore wind farm. The governor's office said......
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1:56 PM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Congressional banking and budget leaders presented a united front minutes ago behind a bipartisan compromise that they will later present to the administration, confident that it will soon lead to a $700-billion......
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7:21 AM Thu, Sep 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin will go to the White House this morning as President Bush signs into law the latest amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (S- 3406). ``It's a historic day,'' the Rhode Island Democrat......
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12:38 PM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite overwhelming shows of support in both houses of Congress yesterday, there remains much uncertainty about the fate of the campaign for better medical treatment of mental illness. From House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader......
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10:35 AM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON - To identify barriers to end-of-life decision-making, and raise awareness about the need for solutions, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will chair a hearing today before the Senate Special Committee on Aging to hear from medical and legal experts about......
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8:50 AM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Congress may be preoccupied with an epic financial crisis while it fights to close up shop for the remainder of the election year, but that doesn't mean that the flow of routine business gets shut off. Tomorrow morning, for example,......
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7:10 PM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Updated / 7:10 p.m. WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's mental-health parity legislation on a 376-to-47 vote tonight. The Rhode Island Democrat's bill now awaits Senate action that may not be easy to secure this......
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6:15 PM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Governor Carcieri is slated to do a phone interview on Lou Dobbs' radio program tomorrow in the 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. range, according to the governor's schedule. Amy Kempe, spokeswoman for the governor, said by e-mail that immigration will be......
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10:37 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
AP photo U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., right, accompanied by fellow Senate banking committee member, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., asks a question of a witness on Capitol Hill in Washington today during the committee's hearing on the credit market......
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9:44 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
As part of the giant Wall Street bailout that Congress is negotiating this week with the Bush administration, Sen. Jack Reed is working on a mechanism that could make financial companies reimburse taxpayers for settling their bad debts. Reed, a......
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9:22 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PAWTUCKET - The Sept. 17 debate between Democrat Mayor James E. Doyle and his opponent, independent City Councilor Donald R. Grebien, will be rebroadcast this afternoon at 2 p.m. on Cox Channel 13. During the debate, Doyle, who is seeking......
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7:44 AM Tue, Sep 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
``A new financial meltdown'' may loom beyond the current crisis, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said yesterday, calling for federal action against ``abusive credit card practices.'' In a letter to colleagues who are leading the efforts to write bailout legislation for......
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5:53 PM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
It was hard to tell where exactly the glitches began on Primary Day. First a ballot memory pack got locked in a Providence school and a second one temporarily disappeared. Then the computers in Woonsocket reportedly forgot to count two......
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1:54 PM Mon, Sep 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Seventy percent of registered voters in Rhode Island think the state has gone off in the wrong direction, according to a survey conducted by Brown University. The survey results, which are based on a random sample of 652 voters in......
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6:35 PM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Bob Thayer U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton waves to assembled press as her motorcade breezes down Shore Drive in Bristol today on her way to a fundraiser at the home of Alan Hassenfeld, head of toymaker Hasbro.......
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1:15 PM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
E-mails are circulating around Rhode Island from Barack Obama's campaign recruiting local supporters to take part in "Camp Obama." Ray Sullivan, state director for the Obama campaign in Rhode Island says in the e-mail, "during these training sessions, people like......
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1:09 PM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Governor Carcieri is making the rounds of radio talkshows today with a don't panic, stay-the-course message for listeners concerned about the confluence of scary state and national economic news, including a 15-year high in the state's jobless rate. "We are......
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11:42 AM Fri, Sep 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
The Democrats are making their presence felt today in Rhode Island. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign will hold an open house and rally for volunteers and supporters on today at 6 p.m. at the Rhode Island for Obama headquarters......
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5:48 PM Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- This afternoon around 30 Republican candidates gathered on the marble staircase in the State House rotunda to pose for a group photo. A photographer was standing at the ready. But before the photo was snapped, Governor Carcieri's communications......
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5:08 PM Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Republican Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian has agreed to "voice his support'' for the fledgling Moderate Party of Rhode Island at an Oct. 10 fundraiser. In an interview today, Avedisian confirmed comments attributed to him in a statement issued by Ken......
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6:08 PM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
They braved fire, explosions and water to save lives and now they'll be honored for their heroics. Seven Rhode Islanders will gather at the State House today to receive accolades from Governor Carcieri and Secretary of State A. Ralph......
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5:15 PM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE - The prospect of paying more for health insurance in their retirement years has led more than 1,000 state workers to serve notice they want out now before the new and more expensive rules take effect. Simply put,......
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4:27 PM Wed, Sep 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
About 250 people have registered so far today for the National Speakers Conference that is drawing House Speakers from across the country, and their spouses and staff members, to Newport, according to Larry Berman, spokesman for the Rhode Island......
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6:01 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy's office today announced his new press secretary is Kerrie Bennett, who for the past three years was a spokeswoman and projects manager for the Rhode Island Convention Center Authority. Before her time with the convention center......
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5:25 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Edward Fitzpatrick Journal staff writer Two big-league Democrats are heading to the smallest state. Sen. Joseph Biden will be coming to Rhode Island on Thursday, Sept. 25, to raise money for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and Sen. Hillary......
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1:03 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
(AP Photo/Julia Cumes) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., arrives with his wife Victoria to vote in the statewide Democratic primary at the town hall in Hyannis, Mass., today. HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy has had his......
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1:01 PM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Governor Carcieri has headed up north for a conference in Downeast Maine. His schedule e-mail tells us that he's at a conference today of New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers in Bar Harbor. It's the group's 32nd annual conference.......
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10:59 AM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
BOSTON -- Primary day carries some uncertainty for John Kerry for the first time in his 24 years in the Senate. Kerry faces his first challenger in a Democratic primary since he was elected in Tuesday's election. Gloucester attorney Ed......
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10:00 AM Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle has agreed to make an appearance today on the Glen Medeiros Show, on Public Access Channel 18, to debate his opponent Donald R. Grebien. Doyle had initially said he would not appear on the show,......
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3:38 PM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Former Lincoln Chafee press secretary Debbie Rich has stepped up her acting resume. The one-time politico appears in the recently released remake of the 1939 film The Women, where she pops up alongside Silver Screen greats Meg Ryan, Annette Benning......
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3:25 PM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- Erin P. Lynch has kept her lead over David Bennett in the Democratic primary to vie for the Senate District 23 seat in Warwick. After a recount at the state Board of Elections this afternoon, Lynch was ahead......
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2:34 PM Mon, Sep 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The recount of the primary race that appears to have unseated longtime state Sen. Stephen D. Alves is over. And Alves's opponent, newcome Michael Pinga, remains ahead. Pinga increased his lead by two votes in the recount at......
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3:33 PM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will lead a car caravan of Rhode Islanders to volunteer in New Hampshire this weekend for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The group will depart from Hope High School on Sunday at 9 a.m. After a speech by......
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1:35 PM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Edward Fitzpatrick Journal Staff Writer The Rhode Island Association for Justice plans to give its Citizen of the Year Award to U.S. Sen. Jack Reed today. The group, formerly known as the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association, is having......
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11:25 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Rhode Island House Speaker William J. Murphy is hosting a gathering of his counterparts from across the country at a National Speakers Conference here next week. According to the summer edition of the National Speakers Conference newsletter, "36 speakers and......
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10:30 AM Fri, Sep 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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In The Journal newsroom, retiring Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst watches Senator Whitehouse's tribute from the floor of the U.S. Senate. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., paid tribute this morning on the floor of the U.S. Senate to Journal......
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6:33 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rep. Jim Langevin today warned a House panel that the nation's electrical power system is vulnerable to attack through computers. Langevin, chairman of a subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee, told colleagues on another panel that legislation is needed "to......
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4:28 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Five third-party presidential candidates tomorrow will learn the order in which their names will appear on Rhode Island's Nov. 4 ballot. A public lottery will be held at 5 p.m. at the State House, Secretary of State Ralph......
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1:40 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE -- Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee this morning stood by his comments that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a "cocky whacko" and "dangerous for the country." Chafee, a former Republican turned independent, did not back down when......
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1:16 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Do you or do any women you know plan on watching tonight's interview with Sarah Palin on ABC news at 6:30? If so -- and if you wouldn't mind having a reporter tag along -- please call reporter Cynthia Needham......
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12:26 PM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers Donnalee Charette, whose son Mark Charette died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and Governor Carcieri prepare to lay a wreath in front of a memorial at the State House on the seventh anniversary......
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9:34 AM Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee had harsh words about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while addressing a Washington, D.C., public policy institute, calling Palin a "cocky whacko." And in an interview with the New America Foundation's Steven Clemons, the......
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7:10 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE - At 9.92 percent, Tuesday's primary-day voter turnout fell short of turnouts in recent years. In all, there were 65,965 primary votes cast out of a pool of 665,092 registered and eligible primary voters, according to Robert Kando, executive......
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6:48 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Lou Dobbs wants Governor Carcieri to share his views on immigration with the nation. Again. Back in April, Rhode Island's Republican governor appeared on Dobbs' nationally-televised CNN program. The governor's office confirmed today that Dobbs wants Carcieri again -- this......
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6:46 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
There were several reasons why Governor Carcieri's office overspent its fiscal 2008 budget by $184,152. Cast part of the blame on a real estate transaction with Guam, according to the governor's spokeswoman, Amy Kempe. She says the governor's office had......
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6:38 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
As they addressed a chanting outdoor rally of thousands in northern Virginia today, John McCain and his running mate uttered nary a word about lipstick, hockey -- or even pigs. They didn't have to. For this day, at least, Democratic......
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5:27 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
David A. Bennett, a Warwick Democrat who appeared to narrowly lose Tuesday's primary for Senate District 31, said in a news release his campaign has requested a recount. Bob Kando, at the state Board of Elections, confirmed today that the......
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3:49 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Timothy S. Murphy Email
By Edward Fitzpatrick Journal staff writer The presidential candidates are hogging the headlines and slinging mud over Barack Obama's use of the phrase "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig." But here in Rhode Island, we've......
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2:42 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
The Crime Victims' Compensation Fund: Most Rhode Islanders have never heard of it, until tragedy strikes. Administered by the General Treasurer's office, the fund provides financial compensation to crime victims and their families for expenses such as medical bills, loss......
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1:35 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau FAIRFAX, Va. -- When John McCain told one of his biggest crowds of this election year that some of his decisions as president would displease some people, a pair of displaced New Englanders was......
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1:23 PM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
A recount has been scheduled for this Monday by the state Board of Elections in the tight primary race that has a newcomer apparently taking the seat from a longtime state senator from West Warwick. Senate Democrat Stephen D. Alves,......
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11:31 AM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau FAIRFAX, Va. -- Thousands have gathered in a public park in this suburb of Washington, for speeches by Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Gail Palermo, of......
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7:33 AM Wed, Sep 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, today will draw near the capital city they decry as ripe for reform. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is making a strong bid to swing......
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6:19 PM Tue, Sep 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By Richard Salit, Journal Staff Writer Three communities will be reporting their poll numbers the old-fashioned way tonight. Most cities and towns will be conveying their vote counts electronically, sending the information via phone lines to a computer system at......
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5:28 PM Tue, Sep 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
As Congress examines the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Sen. Jack Reed has requested a review of the severance pay coming to the chief executive officers of the two mortgage giants. Reed and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New......
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4:11 PM Tue, Sep 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The Providence chief of police will be in Washington tomorrow to testify before a Senate hearing on how to fight violent crime. Col. Dean Esserman will be among the witnesses -- also to include community leaders and experts on crime......
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7:21 PM Mon, Sep 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Rhode Islanders vote in primaries tomorrow to choose nominees for federal, state and local offices. Eligible to vote are those who have been registered to vote in their current city or town for at least the past 30 days. Independents......
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8:39 AM Mon, Sep 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Congress will return this week to a pre-election legislative agenda heavily influenced by the politics of the upcoming elections, which will not only select the next president but also determine the partisan makeup of the 111th Congress. There will......
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1:05 PM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples JOURNAL STATE HOUSE BUREAU PROVIDENCE -- Barely two months have passed since Governor Carcieri signed a state budget packed with controversial cuts he said would close Rhode Island's largest deficit in nearly two decades. But already, another......
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11:51 AM Fri, Sep 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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State House regular Matt Auten has a new job. After five years of working for environmental advocacy groups -- most recently Environment Rhode Island -- Auten has been tapped by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts as her senior policy analyst. Auten,......
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9:40 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Marilyn Trillo of Warwick, Miss Rhode Island in 1967 and runner-up in that year's Miss America Pageant, can identify with Sarah Palin. The 44-year-old Alaska governor was Miss Wasilla 1984 and runner up to Miss Alaska. So when John McCain......
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9:27 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
One of the subplots of the Republican National Convention is the plank in the McCain-Palin platform that -- in a departure from GOP presidential nominee John McCain's earlier position -- calls for exploration of domestic oil and gas reserves. Or......
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6:52 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Convention-goers Governor Carcieri and wife, Sue, went to a private lunch today where GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was the featured guest. The governors joined Palin for a news conference/, which was covered by national media, according to Carcieri's......
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6:47 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Rhode Island Republican Chairman Giovanni Cicione described the challenge that vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin faced last night in what he called, "an incredibly important speech.'' He said, "The country didn't know her.......
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6:37 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau Rookie Rhode Island delegate Dennis Michaud had no trouble arriving at an unshakable prediction after cheering vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech last night to the Republican Convention. But first, he said, "I'm......
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6:30 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau "We're not done yet,'' Rhode Island delegation Rob Manning said today of the Republican presidential nominee John McCain's sendoff to the fall campaign. With running mate Sarah Palin's convention job done -- and......
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12:28 PM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
There does lie ahead the matter of a general election to win. But during the afterglow of Sarah Palin's lavishly praised speech last night, some of the veteran pols in Rhode Island's Republican delegation allowed themselves -- first, a communal......
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9:29 AM Thu, Sep 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
How she carried outside to the nation's prime-time television viewers may be another matter -- or at least the Obama-Biden campaign will hope so -- but inside a hockey palace in St. Paul last night, Sarah Palin built one of......
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8:00 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Now is the time that all good surrogates come out to rally the troops -- and nurture the most tenuous connections to far-flung delegations such as Rhode Island's. For Navy lifers like John McCain and his stand-ins, that isn't too......
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3:27 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
A new line of counterattack is emerging from defenders of Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention: the Alaska governor is being held to a standard that critics would never impose on a male politician. Former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift......
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1:53 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Governor Carcieri warmed up the Rhode Island GOP convention delegation this morning for the high-stakes, prime-time speech by his fellow governor from Alaska, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. ``Let me tell you, you are in for a treat tonight,'' Carcieri......
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1:12 PM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island House Minority Leader Robert Watson has summoned the state's GOP convention delegation to a challenge that should come a lot easier here than it did to the Democrats who convened in Denver last week: ``A unanimous vote......
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8:19 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Meet John McLane, tactical party-switcher, Hoosier, proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy. A group of Rhode Island conventioneers encountered the Republican from Indianapolis on the mezzanine of a downtown St. Paul hotel yesterday as they lined up for a......
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8:09 AM Wed, Sep 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Dueling slogans are at work around this summer's national conventions -- with an Internet twist. Delegates heading into St. Paul on one interstate are greeted with a billboard that says, ``Close Guantanamo, Stop Torture & Investigate Abuses.'' Its Website signature......
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7:13 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Governor Carcieri flew into the Twin Cities airport late this afternoon, with time enough to check into the Rhode Island delegation hotel in Bloomington and rush to St. Paul for a pre-convention gathering of anti-abortion delegates near the Excel Energy......
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6:54 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state judiciary responded this evening to inquiries about renovations outside state Supreme Court offices that include the installation of 23-karat gold leaf on the ceiling trim. "We had peeling paint, we had deteriorating plaster, we had stained......
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6:43 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
The Rhode Island GOP has named an almost-House candidate as the volunteer coordinator for the McCain for President effort in Rhode Island. The party's new executive director, Marc Pappas, confirmed today that state Republican chairman Giovanni Cicione tapped Eileen Grossman......
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6:17 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Is there anybody in American politics who is more cheerfully despised by the left and the right than Joe Lieberman? Tonight's headliner has long been suspect in some liberal precincts for his view that Hollywood helped to coarsen the popular......
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5:38 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- A familiar face in State House hallways is leaving town. Ari Savitzky, the young director of the advocacy organization FairVote RI, is going to law school. The 24-year-old had been on the job for a year. New FairVote......
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4:56 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Some of the biggest excitement for Rhode Island delegates to the Republican convention this week fizzled this afternoon when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's appearance at a long-anticipated gathering of......
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3:57 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The state judiciary has yet to respond to inquiries about renovations outside the office of Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams that include the installation of 23-karat gold leaf on the ceiling trim. Judiciary spokesman Craig N.......
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2:57 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Rhode Island top Republican has joined the state's delegation to the party's convention in St. Paul. Governor Carcieri and his wife, Sue, arrived in this afternoon at the Twin Cities airport. If all goes according to schedule, they may catch......
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2:36 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Former Rhode Island House Minority Leader Brad Gorham is on hand for his second Republican convention, having traveled to Dallas 24 years ago for Ronald Reagan's nomination to run for a second presidential term. Gorham is also a longtime supporter......
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2:33 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The scramble is on for the hottest ticket in town -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's appearance late today at a gathering of abortion foes a few blocks from the Republican National Convention hall in St. Paul. There aren't enough tickets......
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2:29 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Not every detail is nailed down yet, but the Republican National Convention is going full speed ahead tonight, having weathered a big course change in response to Hurricane Gustav. ``We lost a lot of opportunities to communicate last night'' with......
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10:23 AM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
AP photo U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., waves as he tours the podium at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., today. He's scheduled to speak tonight. The most urgent worries about Gulf coast hurricane damage are ebbing,......
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4:07 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
John McCain's chief economic policy adviser was one of the first campaign operatives to meet the press in the moments after the announcement that 17-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of McCain's vice presidential candidate, is pregnant. It did not appear to......
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3:17 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
GOP conventioneers already adjusting to the disruption caused by Hurricane Gustav are suddenly reacting to the news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Rhode Island delegate Kristine Greene suggested that many voters will react to the word......
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12:33 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
By John E. John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau From the Republican National Convention, Department of Silver Linings: Rhode Island Republican Chairman Giovanni Cicione encouraged fellow delegates at their organizing meeting this morning to be on the lookout for blessings......
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12:22 PM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By John E. Mulligan, Journal Washington Bureau MINNEAPOLIS -- Republicans from around the country attended their welcoming gala last night at the Minndeapolis Convention Center in an atmosphere of uncertainty and some disappointment about how their national gathering will proceed......
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10:40 AM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee is headed for the Gulf Coast area to join in some repair work -- not on hurricane damage, but on the republic. The Rhode Islander will try to rally independents and Republicans to help elect Democratic......
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10:33 AM Mon, Sep 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
As the Republicans adjust their schedule for their convention to cope with Hurricane Gustav's, you can keep up with the latest by checking projo.com's home page under the headline Campaign 2008. We're also expecting Journal Washington bureau chief John E.......
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