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5:04 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg  Email
House Finance Chairman Steven Costantino, D-Providence, is not going to Atlanta after all. He had been booked -- and the state had paid $425 in registration fees -- for both Costantino and Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy to go to Atlanta......
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4:55 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The president of Rhode Island's largest public employees union has issued a stern warning to the staff members who work at the North Providence headquarters of Council 94, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. In an internal......
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4:52 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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The elderly advocacy group the Gray Panthers confered Turkey of the Year awards on Governor Carcieri and the General Assembly at the governor's office this morning, citing cuts in services, new fees and increases in fees for programs for......
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3:45 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The embattled executive director of Rhode Island's largest public employees union is no longer an employee of Council 94, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Executive Director Dennis Grilli, who had been on "paid administrative leave," has agreed......
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1:01 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is one of the governors headed to Philadelphia on Tuesday to meet with President-elect Barack Obama Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and hear the nation's new......
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12:36 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee traveled to at least four states to stump for President-elect Barack Obama in the campaign's final weeks. But Chafee said Tuesday that he would not travel to Washington, D.C., in January for Obama's inauguration. "I'm......
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12:15 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
A familiar face left the State House this week. Allison Henault, the spirited young tour guide for the Secretary of State's office, is moving on. The Johnson and Wales University senior led State House tours as an intern for the......
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9:35 AM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau The Donilons of Providence are shaping up as a well-placed brotherhood in the Obama-Biden White House. Providence native Mike Donilon -- a lawyer and political consultant whose clients have included Jack Reed and......
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8:58 AM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- As President-elect Barack Obama assembles his national security and foreign policy team, Jack Reed seems to be getting his wish to serve the new administration from the slot to which he was reelected Nov. 4. Democratic Senator Reed......
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2:06 PM Tue, Nov 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Hendrick Hertzberg, a senior editor and writer at The New Yorker magazine is coming to Providence next month to speak about the 2008 presidential election. Hertzberg, who served as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter and as a former executive editor......
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5:11 PM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
On the heels of more dim news about the state's budget, the House Finance Committee has firmed up the dates and times for its next meetings. The committee will gather Dec. 1-3 -- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week......
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3:32 PM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The House Finance Committee was confronted with a daunting task this afternoon during a rare off-session meeting focused on the state government's massive financial problems. "This current year deficit is probably the biggest challenge anyone has faced in......
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2:50 PM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE -- State Treas. Frank Caprio today labeled "unacceptable'' the recent state-paid travels by legislators to Las Vegas and other resorts and tourist meccas across the map, including the Florida Keys. Responding in print and radio interviews to questions about......
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6:00 AM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE -- At a time when the state is frantically seeking answers to its budget woes, the lawmakers responsible for crafting those solutions are dwindling in numbers. Six of the 17 House Finance committee members and three of the 10......
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4:11 PM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE -- As the push to cut government spending begins in earnest in Rhode Island, the adminstrators of the state's Economic Development Corporation are proposing to eliminate the guarantee of 3-percent compounded annual increases to EDC retirees. The elimination of......
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1:42 PM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The president of what is believed to be the second-largest state employees union was ousted by her members this week in a closely contested election. Lucie Burdick, largely considered a rising star in Rhode Island's organized labor movement, led Local......
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9:54 AM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Birthday greetings are in order. Former Sen. Claiborne Pell will turn 90 tomorrow. In honor of the man and the day, Salve Regina University plans to post a picture show on its Web site later today. The university's Pell Center......
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6:36 PM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
White House photo / Eric Draper President George W. Bush is joined by Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., and U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn.,......
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6:02 PM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- The Senate has sent to the White House for President Bush's signature a bill that would ensure up to 33 weeks of unemployment benefits in Rhode Island and other states with high rates of joblessness. The White House......
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5:19 PM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- President Bush today told the sponsors of a landmark mental health bill -- including Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy -- that the new law will merit commemoration in the presidential library that he will......
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11:12 AM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- After years of partisan battles between the Bush White House and the Democratic Congress, it's easy to forget that President Bush began his administration with a friendly gesture toward one of the leading Democrats of modern times --......
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7:15 PM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE -- With the state's budget in hot water, Rhode Island lawmakers are trickling back to Smith Hill to start crafting solutions. First up, the governor's office will meet tomorrow afternoon with Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed, who......
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3:59 PM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Despite the fact that Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, a joint legislative commission says it believes there are still jobs to be had, but that people don't know how to find them. Hoping to change......
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12:56 PM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
PROVIDENCE -- With the state's financial forecast gloomy, one legislative group will return to Smith Hill today to try and iron out solutions. The joint legislative commission known as the "Family Income and Asset Building Commission" will meet this afternoon.......
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3:00 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island's senators expressed doubt today that a bailout package for Detroit's Big Three auto makers can soon be enacted over Republican opposition, but they expressed hope that Congress can pass extended jobless relief during the current lame-duck......
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2:59 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says that although his chances may be "slim,'' he is pressing ahead with his bid for a seat on the Senate Finance Committee, an assignment with great influence over taxes, Social Security and --......
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1:56 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
In the latest episode of All in the Family-Rhode Island style, Kristine Kilmartin, the wife of House Majority Whip Peter Kilmartin, has been promoted to the top-ranked legislative job held by her brother-in-law Michael Kilmartin until his recent retirement. House......
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1:01 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri this morning admitted to his fourth violation of the state Ethics Code, agreeing to pay a $2,500 fine in connection with his hiring of his niece in 2003. The niece,......
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12:53 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The Senate Democrats of the incoming Congress voted overwhelmingly this morning to permit independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman to remain in the party's caucus, despite his aggressive campaigning for the Republican presidential......
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12:32 PM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau In her first act since fellow Democrats endorsed her for Senate president, Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed today announced that she has chosen Sen. Daniel DaPonte to be the new Senate......
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8:43 AM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- An emotion-laden subplot of the buildup to the new Congress -- Democratic anger over independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's aggressive role in Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign -- approaches its resolution this......
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3:43 PM Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE - A legislative leadership panel chaired by House Speaker William J. Murphy is meeting Tuesday, for the first time in more than a year, to decide whether the General Assembly's 280-plus year-round employees will pay the same health-care increases......
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3:38 PM Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- The governor's office says it will release a quarterly report Monday that details tens of millions of dollars in departmental overspending. The report, due to be publicly released Nov. 15 (which is Saturday) according to state law, lists......
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7:00 AM Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Darrell West may have moved on to bigger and better things at the Brookings Institution, but the longtime head of Brown University's Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions is still in the news in Rhode Island.......
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7:15 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
The four members of the tiny Senate Republican bloc are in a leadership fight. Sen. Dennis Algiere confirmed today that he is in a 2-to-2 fight with fellow Senate Republican Leo Blais for a job that he, Algiere, has......
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6:41 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
Providence Republican chairman Dave Talan gets the rose-colored glasses award for this headline on his latest email newsletter: "120 R.I. Republicans win on November 4th.'' While most of the post-election chatter has centered on the GOP's legislative losses here and......
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5:35 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The face of Rhode Island's young Democrats has changed. The group, which functions as an official political action committee, has elected a new leadership team after three years under president Andy Andujuar, 29, and vice president Matt Jerzyk, 31, of......
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5:21 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
There's a lot of talk in Washington about a federal stimulus package that could pump billions of dollars into states, like Rhode Island, that are facing budget crises of their own. And while there's no formal proposal on the table,......
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3:50 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau As the Christmas season fast approaches, Fred Sneesby, the governor's senior communications and policy analyst is offering up some reading material. Sneesby, a former priest and one-time social services worker, has written a......
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2:30 PM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- House Republicans have consistently tried to overturn a state law that allows Rhode Island voters to chose the straight-ticket option on Election Day. With good reason. Democrats traditionally get a big boost from straight-ticket voters. This year was......
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10:11 AM Thu, Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rhode Islander Tom Donilon is among the members of the Democratic government-in-waiting who are playing big roles in the transition to President-elect Barack Obama's administration. Donilon, who grew up in a......
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3:31 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
While TV cameras rolled on the Senate Democratic caucus upstairs, the six surviving Republicans in the House held their own caucus at the State House Monday night to elect their own leaders for the 2009 session. Rep. Robert Watson,......
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9:25 AM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Email
NEWPORT (AP) -- Newport has its first woman mayor. The city council voted unanimously Monday to make Jeanne-Marie Napolitano its chairwoman and mayor. Napolitano, who has served on the council since 1991, said she is "overwhelmed" by the selection. The......
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6:31 PM Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Sen. M. Teresa Paiva Weed, a Newport Democrat, has just won the Democratic Caucus's endorsement to become the first woman to be president of the Rhode Island Senate. The full Senate must elect the president, but in Rhode......
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5:59 PM Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- State Sen. Daniel P. Connors, a Cumberland Democrat, has just been elected majority leader of the Rhode Island Senate. Connors is a 32-year-old lawyer who is set to take the place......
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4:15 PM Mon, Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Former political adviser and CNN commentator David Gergen will visit Roger Williams University Thursday to speak about last week's election. Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is expected to share his......
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3:31 PM Fri, Nov 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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During his first news conference since Election Day, President-elect Obama sought to clarify perhaps one of the more pressing issues on the minds of voters. The dog. Tuesday night during his victory speech at Grant Park in Chicago, Barack Obama......
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4:36 PM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau WEST WARWICK -- While the jockeying to replace ousted Senate president Joseph Montalbano heats up behind the scenes, House Democrats have called a caucus for tomorrow night to re-anoint their own leadership team,......
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9:36 AM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, Americans elected Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois as the country's 44th president, a historic election in which his racial background and message of hope and change were not lost. Today, many newspapers around the world capture the......
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8:32 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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So, now, we wait. Polls close at 9 p.m. around Rhode Island. The state Board of Elections will be collecting unofficial results from Boards of Canvassers in 39 cities and towns. If all goes as planned, those results will start......
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2:43 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
The state's Republican and Democratic leaders are hosting election-night "victory'' parties tonight. The state GOP is hosting a "Victory 2008 Election Night Results Watch Party'' at Ruth's Chris Steak House, on the ground-floor level of the new GTECH building in......
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9:53 AM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By John Mulligan Journal Washington bureau McLEAN, Va. - Citizens of Northern Virginia rose before the sun this morning to converge in large numbers on the polls in this key battleground of the presidential and congressional elections. Dozens of voters......
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3:54 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Susan Areson Email
By Paul Edward Parker Journal Staff Writer The Rhode Island electorate has taken a seismic shift toward youth and the Democratic party in the last year and a half. A Providence Journal analysis of the state's voter registration database shows......
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3:00 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
The Steel Yard, a Providence arts and technical training school, is offering Providence voters rides to the polls tomorrow. Drake Patten, executive director, says she's giving her staff the day off, so they can vote and work to get out......
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1:23 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Bob Thayer Cranston resident Bill York has been camping out mornings between 7 and 9 in front of his One Rhodes Place polling place, not for a particular candidate, but to encourage voters to cast their......
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11:23 AM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is in Washington, D.C., today for at least two reasons. He plans to attend this afternoon's oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding a Narragansett Indian land case. And Carcieri also met with federal Medicaid officials......
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8:44 AM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE -- Election Day comes a day early to Rhode Island, where Rhode Island Right to Vote is sponsoring a pre-election bash in Burnside Park, off Kennedy Plaza. The party starts at 12:30 and is expected to run until 2......
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