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January 25, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Archives
1:04 PM Fri, Jan 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email
By Randal Edgar Journal staff writer Amid the swarm of people at Cranston's City Council meeting last week was one person more often seen at the State House. Dan Beardsley, executive director of the Rhode Island League of Cities and......
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12:15 PM Fri, Jan 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Former Rep. Fausto C. Anguilla, D-Bristol, has been hired as the new House policy director, starting Februrary 2. A Georgetown University-educated lawyer, Anguilla did not seek reelection after a 2001-06 stint in the House where he played......
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5:55 PM Thu, Jan 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Thomas J. Morgan Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE - Mayor David N. Cicilline has been invited to the White House tomorrow by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden as the Obama administration launches a new initiative designed to......
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5:11 PM Thu, Jan 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Senate finally has a minority leader. The tiny Senate Republican bloc settled its two-to-two standoff and today reelected Sen. Dennis Algiere, R-Westerly, to a seventh term in the post. Algiere won after his opponent, Sen. Leo......
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10:20 AM Thu, Jan 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has picked up a new assignment on a House panel with a long history of newsworthy investigative hearings. Kennedy is among 23 Democrats who will serve on the House Committee on Oversight and Government......
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4:18 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, RI -- Governor Carcieri made an unscheduled appearance at an anti-abortion rally in the State House rotunda this afternoon. "Let me encourage everything you're doing. Don't give up. Don't give up," Carcieri......
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3:09 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Mark Zaccaria sees 2008 as "a learning experience." The Republican candidate for Jim Langevin's Second Congressional District seat earned just 29.9 percent of the vote in November's election. But Zaccaria, the former corporate exective from North Kingstown, has already announced......
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3:00 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY KATHY GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the state facing a huge backlog of unemployment-benefit claims, legislative leaders have agreed to fast-track legislation allowing the state's Department of Labor & Training to rehire some of its......
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12:40 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, RI -- The city's new mayor faces big challenges as he settles in and tries to balance the city budget, but he can claim one accomplishment: he has the leadership team he wants. Last night, three weeks to the......
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12:13 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON -- The government should consider creating a "bad bank" to help ailing private banks to get rid of bad assets so that they can recover, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, D-RI, said this morning. "The bad bank is something we......
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6:26 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Rep. Joseph Trillo is considering a run for governor in 2010. The Warwick Republican confirmed in an interview today that he is putting together an exploratory committee to investigate the idea. Reports of the run first surfaced on the political......
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5:55 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ President Obama won bipartisan praise today from Rhode Island officials for opening the door to state-level rules on automobile pollution that go further than federal standards. Democrats took the opportunity......
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1:29 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Phil Marcelo Gary Bliss, Mayor Cicilline's former policy director, is back on the city payroll. Bliss returned about two months ago after leaving his post as policy director earlier in the year, the mayor's chief of administration, Richard......
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1:26 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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News staff Rep. James R. Langevin's office last week announced news suggesting that the Rhode Island Democrats status in the House of Representatives may be improving. Rhode Island's junior congressman was among the least influential members of the House of......
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1:23 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Among the flurry of changes on Smith Hill this month, one in particular caught our attention. Rep. Douglas Gablinske, the second-term Bristol Democrat largely known for anti-labor views, has been assigned to the House Labor Committee. Labor......
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12:17 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau Email
WASHINGTON _ Sen. Jack Reed will seek what his office calls ``a top-to-bottom review'' of the Securities and Exchange Commission tomorrow in a speech that proposes changes in the regulation of financial services industry. Reed, a senior member of the......
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