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President-elect Obama addresses pressing puppy question in first news conference

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By News staff    Email

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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 Tags  dog   hypoallergenic   Obama   president-elect  

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Post-election: Determining R.I. Assembly leaders

4:36 PM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

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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 Tags  election   General Assembly   R.I. Democrats  

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Today's front pages from around the world

9:36 AM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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 Tags  Barack Obama   election   Newseum   president  

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Waiting for the polls to close

8:32 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  election   polls   R.I. elections  

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Republicans, Democrats to host election-night parties

2:43 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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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 Tags  Biltmore   Democratic   election   GTECH   Providence   Republican   Ruth's Chris Steak House   William Lynch  

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Will battleground Virginia tilt to the Democrats?

9:53 AM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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 Tags  election   Virginia  

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Rhode Island sees surge in young, Democratic voters

3:54 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | | Comments (1)
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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 Tags  Rhode Island   voter registration   young voters  

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Providence organization offers rides to the polls

3:00 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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 Tags  polls   Providence   The Steel Yard   vote  

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Photo: A reminder to vote with your feet

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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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 Tags  Bill York   Cranston   election   polling places   vote  

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Governor Carcieri goes to Washington

11:23 AM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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 Tags  Carcieri   Medicaid waiver   Narragansett Indian land case  

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Pre-election party today at Kennedy Plaza

8:44 AM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
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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 Tags  Election Day   Kennedy Plaza   Providence  

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