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6:52 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal staff writer Well, it looks like the first return for the presidential election is in, and Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau is calling the election for Barack Obama. In a strip sent to newspapers and set to......
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1:32 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here by popular demand is an updated list of state lawmakers getting free health, dental and vision care coverage at a cost to taxpayers of $6,247 for each individual plan, $17,454 for each family package. The number has shrunk dramatically......
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1:22 PM Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Rhode Island's part-time lawmakers have gotten an automatic 4.3 percent raise. Without announcement, fanfare or vote, the salaries of rank-and-file lawmakers went from $13,508 to $14,089 annually on July 1. The House Speaker and Senate president get twice that. The......
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4:57 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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Catherine O'Brien, 86, of Pawtucket, holds her election official pin that she recieved after attending a class for poll workers. Watch the video O'Brien will be working at the polls this Tuesday, as she has for 20 years. Providence Journal......
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4:01 PM Thu, Oct 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
Rhode Island's U.S. attorney has appointed the federal officer who will oversee handling of election fraud complaints and voting rights abuses in consultation with the Justice Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Terrence P. Donnelly will serve as federal district election officer......
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5:37 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
One-time presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will be in Rhode Island tomorrow night speaking at Brown University. Huckabee, will deliver what Brown is calling "a behind-the-scenes perspective on his primary run and the upcoming Presidential election in......
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4:29 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The Carcieri administration has given its chief of legal services, Louis DeQuattro, a new title and a $33,183 raise. In response to inquiries, the state personnel office acknowledged DeQuattro's promotion to associate director of administration / purchasing agent,......
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4:11 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis will appear on CNN Radio to talk about how Rhode Island is preparing for what could be a record voter turnout in next week's presidential elections. Recorded by phone this morning, the interview could......
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3:48 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Cheryl Russell sat alone in a folding chair on the State House's front steps this afternoon, bundled up in a parka and fleece blanket. Despite a stiff late-October breeze, she said she wasn't cold. "I really don't feel......
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12:59 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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U.S. Rep. James Langevin carved out time to tape a joint appearance with Mark Zaccaria, his Republican challenger in the Second Congressional District, on WJAR-Channel 10's Sunday morning Political Roundtable. It aired last weekend. But Rhode Island's First District Congressman......
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6:16 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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One week from today, more than half a million Rhode Islanders could flood the polls, breaking all previous voting records. And that could spell big problems. To help disperse the expected crowds and ward off potential snags, Secretary of State......
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1:14 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has joined former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in calling for better health care through computer technology. In an opinion essay published in today's Washington Times, the bipartisan pair......
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2:45 PM Mon, Oct 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg State House bureau PROVIDENCE - A dozen Republican candidates for state and federal offices gathered outside the State House today to talk about what they would do to reverse the state's "atrocious'' highest-in-the-nation unemployment rate. Jonathan Scott,......
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1:15 PM Mon, Oct 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- If there was any good news to come out of the State House this morning, it's that Rhode Island isn't the only New England state in recession. "Misery loves company. And Rhode Island has plenty of it," said......
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1:56 PM Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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CONCORD, N.H. -- Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a Republican, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president today, citing the senator's good judgment, "deep sense of calm" and "first-class political temperament." Weld said he has never endorsed a Democrat for president......
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12:10 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Among the other interesting moments at last night's RIPEC dinner... Longtime RIPEC director Gary Sasse, now chief of Governor Carcieri's Department of Revenue, was among the headliners. He had just learned the week before that RIPEC had established......
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12:07 PM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri was among a handful of high-profile speakers at last night's annual dinner for the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. His opened his remarks with a bit of humor, although it wasn't intentional. Just as he was......
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11:39 AM Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Frieda Squires Rep. Patrick Kennedy was greeted by Vivian Weisman, executive director of the Mental Health Association of R.I., at a thank-you party today at Providence Piers. Kennedy was the co-sponsor of mental health parity legislation......
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6:36 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
The Navy's top officer today gave a ringing endorsement of the submarine program, calling it a ``killer arrow'' among the weapons available to commanders. ``I love submarines,'' Adm. Gary Roughead, the Chief of Naval Operations, told a convention of......
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3:42 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Call it a bit of fall cleaning, if you will. The citizens-advocacy group Operation Clean Government is giving out two Golden Broom Awards to Rhode Islanders who fight for more open and honest government in Rhode Island. This year's winners......
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1:32 PM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer CRANSTON -- Democratic mayoral candidate Cindy Fogarty will speak about the relationship between faith and government at the 9 a.m. service this Sunday at the Church of the Ascension, 390 Pontiac Ave. She is......
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10:27 AM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
It's that time of year again. The General Assembly has released the schedule for the biannual event that will determine the size of Rhode Island's budget deficit. The fall Revenue & Caseload Estimating Conference begins Oct. 27 -- one week......
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2:55 PM Mon, Oct 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
In 1944, the GI Bill revolutionized the higher education system in this country, allowing millions of American veterans to go to college. But that was 60 years ago. Since then, the cost of a college education has skyrocketed and GI......
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7:07 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE -- Thousands of rank-and-file union members will vote next week on a four-year contract that will increase their health care costs, delay pay increases in the first year, and boost co-pays for......
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6:30 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is scheduled to meet on Monday with Aziz Mekouar, Morocco's ambassador to the United States. The governor's scheduled shows him meeting with the ambassador between 1:30 and 2 p.m. The ambassador is also scheduled to speak......
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5:33 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The governor's office has confirmed that a private consulting firm is working with state officials on plans to transform Rhode Island's Medicaid system. The Lucas Group, which has offices in Boston and Toronto, is working on the state's......
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4:10 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Republican Governor Carcieri is all over the airwaves as the voice -- or financial sponsor -- of paid radio ads lamenting the state's political status quo and putting the "blame for the state of our state'' squarely on the shoulders......
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3:41 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The governor's spokeswoman Amy Kempe couldn't help noticing a troubling television commercial during the breaks of last night's Red Sox game. "Vote NO on Question 1. It's a reckless idea," read the words flashing across the screen. The advertisement --......
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3:26 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Ellen Nelson, the former director of the state Department of Mental Health, Retardation & Hospitals, has left the state payroll after a stint as special adviser to the governor on hospital mergers and acquisitions. In an interview, Nelson confirmed that......
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2:42 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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For the second time this month, the General Assembly has hired the relative of an elected official. Margaret Shanley, the daughter of outgoing Rep. John P. Shanley, Jr. D-South Kingstown, is now working for Capitol TV, the Legislative-run television station.......
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5:49 PM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney Email
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has denied state Sen. Stephen D. Alves' request for an appeal of his Democratic primary loss, ending his quest for a new election and cementing Michael J. Pinga as the winner, according to Alves' lawyer.......
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12:31 PM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- David Anderson, a Republican candidate for state representative, has filed a report with police alleging thefts of his campaign signs along Hope Street, his campaign announced today. Anderson, who is running for......
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9:56 AM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Bill Murphy Actor Martin Sheen (right) greets workers at UPS in Warwick, as he campaigns for U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (center) this morning. Kennedy, D-R.I., faces a challenge from Republican Jonathan Scott in the November election.......
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8:30 AM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- A prominent gun control organization has endorsed Sen. Jack Reed for reelection. Reed, D-R.I., won praise from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence -- named for Jim Brady, the onetime press secretary to Ronald Reagan who suffered......
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8:02 AM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Election Day is still almost three weeks off, but the congressional post-season is already underway, with lobbying groups and commentators passing out garlands to favored legislators. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., can point this week to applause for his work on......
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4:24 PM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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LACONIA, N.H. -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, this afternoon drew similarities between residents of her state and New Hampshire, from moose hunting to dog sledding, as she appealed to voters here three weeks before Election......
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2:23 PM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Jim Cole Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin strides onto the stage for a campaign event in Dover, N.H., today. LACONIA, N.H. -- The tourists and motorcycle ralliers are gone with the summer, but a crowd......
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12:25 PM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo A member of the media works in the filing center yesterday at the site of the presidential debate tonight at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Want to watch tonight's presidential debate around the politically savvy? You could......
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9:00 AM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Having once played a Kennedy on TV, actor Martin Sheen is headed to Rhode Island on Thursday to stump for one. U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy's office has confirmed that Sheen, a Democratic Party activist, will accompany the 1st District congressman......
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8:50 AM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
A frequent guest on local talk radio, Governor Carcieri is now the on-air radio voice for the advocacy group, TransformRI. In a radio ad paid for by TransformRI, the term-limited Republican governor can be heard this week talking about unnamed......
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8:41 AM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal staff writer It could be a fiery morning at the University of Rhode Island. The school is set to launch its new Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Explosives Detection, Mitigation, Response and Characterization. Try saying......
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4:27 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Rhode Island found itself in the national spotlight last night, for better or worse. The Ocean State was featured on ABC News as part of the ongoing segment "50 States in 50 Days," which used the state as a cautionary......
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2:29 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
Rhode Island native Brendan V. Sullivan Jr., one of Washington's best-known criminal lawyers, is back in the news. Sullivan, who became nationally famous during the Iran-Contra congressional hearings a generation ago, is making headlines as a lawyer in a high-profile......
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1:30 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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The League of Women Voters will host a candidates' forum in West Warwick tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the West Warwick High School Auditorium. The forum will allow the audience to submit questions before the forum for candidates and allow......
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1:30 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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The League of Women Voters will host a candidates' forum in West Warwick tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the West Warwick High School Auditorium. The forum will allow the audience to submit questions before the forum for candidates and allow......
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4:18 PM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Mike McKinney projo.com Staff Writer A hearing has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday on the ACLU's lawsuit accusing the town of West Warwick of discriminatory enforcement of an ordinance that limits the size of campaign signs. The Rhode......
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3:58 PM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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State Sen. Juan Pichardo doesn't usually hide his support for human service programs that help low-income Rhode Islanders. Now, the Providence Democrat will have a chance to push his agenda on a national scale. Pichardo has been named vice chairman......
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1:04 PM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Women's Fund of Rhode Island has launched a radio and television campaign to encourage women to vote. "We want every woman to know how important her vote is," said Marcia Coné-Tighe, executive director of the Women's Fund. "We know......
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1:01 PM Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau The state is taking steps to try to recover $62 million in state-owned assets from a money-market fund frozen by the Securities & Exchange Commission in late September, the state's Gen. Treas. Frank......
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6:08 PM Thu, Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Gov. Carcieri has only one event on his public schedule Friday: a 2 p.m. interview with ABC World News Tonight. In response to an inquiry, his spokeswoman Amy Kempe said an ABC film crew was headed to Rhode Island......
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10:00 AM Thu, Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
With less than a month to go before the November presidential election, legislators have renewed their calls for changes to the Electoral College system, saying it's the best way to increase Rhode Island's relevance in the campaign process. Since the......
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4:18 PM Wed, Oct 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
A Brown University professor who was active in the early stages of the nation's manned space travel program will be one of a handful of featured speakers next week at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Aviation......
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4:17 PM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts is already looking ahead to the holiday season. She's helping kick off this year's "Operation Holiday Cheer" Wednesday morning at the Rhode Island National Guard Command Readiness Center on New London Avenue in Cranston. The effort......
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3:14 PM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tatiana Pina Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- The Rhode Island Ethics Commission says there is probable cause to go to trial for an ethics complaint against Woonsocket Mayor Susan Menard that alleges she violated the ethics code by leasing......
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2:22 PM Tue, Oct 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
The state's Workers Compensation Court got a new judge today with the swearing in by Governor Carcieri of Robert M. Ferrieri. Carcieri assured the legislators and judges and courthouse staff assembled in the State House rotunda that "there is......
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5:24 PM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Think the state has a hiring freeze? Think again. Providence Mayor David Cicilline's sister, Roberta Cicilline-DiMezza, started work at the State House today in her new job working for the General Assembly, which is out of session. In a brief......
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4:44 PM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
BOSTON -- Rep. Barney Frank said today that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated. The Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP......
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2:32 PM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
With the nation's attention captivated by the economic woes of late, where does foreign policy factor in? Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Ted Widmer, a one-time speechwriter for President Clinton, now director of the John Carter Brown Library, will address......
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4:55 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
PROVIDENCE -- The Board of Elections finalized counting the mail ballots in the state Supreme Court-ordered recount in West Warwick's Senate District 9 Democratic primary -- between longtime incumbent Stephen D. Alves and political newcomer Michael Pinga -- giving Pinga......
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2:58 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- U.S. Reps. Patrick J. Kennedy and James R. Langevin, both Rhode Island Democrats, joined a 263-171 House majority this afternoon that passed the bill to rescue the financial markets and expressed hope......
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1:07 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, and Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis says there will be more than 40 places open for people to register. There will be at least......
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12:51 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers At the Rhode Island Board of Elections, attorneys and board members check ballot results in a recount of the Democratic primary between Erin P. Lynch and David Bennett for a Warwick Senate seat. Clockwise from......
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12:15 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has provided some relief from the gloom of the hard economic news and the tense efforts of House leaders to assemble majority support for the massive economic......
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12:15 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
It's not all bad news on Smith Hill. Governor Carcieri's assistant, Marge Gartelman, is probably still smiling today after sinking a hole-in-one during a golf tournament earlier in the week at the Exeter Country Club. "We were jumping for joy,"......
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1:53 PM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Whoever said Hollywood is always on a diet has apparently never been to the Brotherhood snack tent. Cast and crew of the Showtime television series need look no farther to satisfy cravings of any sort. The Craft Services tent, which......
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12:52 PM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON - Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse say opposition to a financial bailout bill may be muting as citizens consider the possibility that government inaction could hurt them. Nevertheless, ``the message has been loud and clear'' from constituents,......
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11:59 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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A candidate forum hosted by the Rhode Island Civil Rights Roundtable was shaping up as the only event where U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy might be willing to make a joint appearance with his Republican challenger, Jonathan Scott. But now even......
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11:50 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
By John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, D-RI, is among the legislators who have seen some moderation in the opposition of his constituents to the financial rescue package that is now headed to the House......
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11:37 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Looking for a place to watch tonight's vice presidential debate? No matter what your political preference, you've got viewing options. Democrats will gather at the Peerless Lofts building in downtown Providence to soak up the most anticipated vice presidential showdown......
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10:22 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- While the financial rescue bill that passed the Senate last night faces uncertain prospects as the House returns to work on it today, members of Rhode Island's congressional delegation point to......
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9:30 AM Thu, Oct 02, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Governor Carcieri will spend part of this afternoon meeting with members of the Italian media. Planning a run for public office in Italy perhaps? Not exactly. The European reporters are in Rhode Island as part of a trip to meet......
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6:48 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has joined colleagues in praising the Justice Department for a report that found political motives in the Bush administration's firing of nine federal prosecutors in 2006, but he sharply criticized Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey.......
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5:36 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse announced this afternoon in advance of tonight's Senate vote on the nation's economic "bailout" plan that he will vote in favor of the measure. "I expect to vote for the financial market recovery plan," Rhode Island's junior......
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5:19 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By maria caporizzo Email
If you want to vote in this year's general election and you haven't registered yet, you still have three days. Saturday is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4 general election. To register, you must be......
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5:17 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- When scholars dig into the remains of the Great Market Rescue of 2008, assuming that Congress accepts it this week and American capitalism survives the treatment,- they may puzzle over a curious aspect. The lead author listed on......
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4:12 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Will lawmakers return to the State House for a veto-override session before or after the November 4 election? Put another way, will the state's lawmakers be able to wait until after they face the voters to decide whether to overturn......
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4:07 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Brotherhood is headed back to the State House. Again. The Showtime television series will return to Capitol Hill tomorrow morning to begin filming one of the last episodes of season three, according to a detailed memo by Steven Feinberg, director......
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3:57 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
He's running for president again. Rhode Island native, Love 22 -- that's his legal name -- kicked off a 22-city campaign at the Rhode Island State House today. He handed out homemade $22-dollar bills to the handful of people walking......
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