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Capital Center Commission reorganizes, director retires

2:49 PM Wed, Apr 08, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Philip Marcelo    Email

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Deborah Melino-Wender, the executive director of the Capital Center Commission, the joint state and city agency that oversees development around the State House, has stepped down, and the office's administrative duties have been transferred to the city......

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 Tags  capital center   downcity   planning and development   providence   providence chamber of commerce   Providence RI  

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Carcieris speak at State House event opposing same-sex marriage

Marriage 1 KB.JPG 11:18 AM Wed, Apr 08, 2009 | | Comments (3)
By Katherine Gregg    Email

Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers Governor Carcieri, with his wife, Sue, speaks at a State House press conference organized by a group that opposes same-sex marriage. Behind them is Ken Fish, 67, of Warwick, who supports the right for gay......

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 Tags  Governor Carcieri   same-sex marriage   State House  

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Carcieri to reveal his intentions on supplemental budget

2:33 PM Tue, Apr 07, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri's office just announced that the governor will hold a "media availability" at 3 p.m. Tuesday to share his thoughts on the budget-balancing bill approved last week by the General Assembly. Carcieri has until the end......

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 Tags  Governor Carcier   Providence RI   state budget  

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Update: Same-sex marriage 'compromise' set for hearing

2:15 PM Tue, Apr 07, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Katherine Gregg    Email

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As opponents of same-sex marriage gear up for a TV advertising campaign aimed at heading off any further progress on legalizing gay marriage, the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday night on a......

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 Tags  Marriage Equality Rhode Island   Providence RI Gordon Fox   same-sex divorce   same-sex marriage   Sen. Leo Blais  

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Governor set for conference call with Biden

4:32 PM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Cynthia Needham    Email

Governor Carcieri will participate in a conference call with Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday afternoon to discuss the particulars of the federal stimulus package. The call will also include the governors of Georgia, Maine, Missouri and Illinois. "President Obama has......

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 Tags  biden   carcieri   conference call   stimulus  

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Opinions vary on significance of decline in RI's revenues

4:31 PM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's no secret that the Carcieri administration tracks tax revenue collections -- the state's primary source of income -- each month. But we can't recall any time in recent years that the governor's office issued a news......

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 Tags  budget deficit   Providence RI   revenue  

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Chafee forms committee to explore run for governor

11:41 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

By Katherine Gregg Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee has announced the formation of an "exploratory campaign'' for the 2010 Rhode Island Governor's race. According to a statement issued this morning, "Chafee will spend......

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 Tags  2010 governor's race   exploratory committee   independent   Lincoln Chafee   politics  

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RI taxes, fees and Lottery receipts down $13.8 M in March

10:07 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Comments (8)
By Katherine Gregg    Email

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With overall state revenue collections lagging estimates by $13.8 million last month, House fiscal adviser Michael O'Keefe has put legislative leaders on notice: "The trend in not a positive one.'' "Both tax revenues and total revenues show......

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 Tags  deficit   fees   Governor Carcieri   lottery   revenue   Rhode Island   tax collection  

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Hot off the presses: A slimmer state manual

6:00 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Write a comment
By News staff    Email

Good news for Rhode Island political junkies: the state owner's manual is back. Hot off the presses, the latest version of the bound book is a virtual gold mine of trivia about the state's elected officials --listing brief biographies, contact......

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 Tags  Rhode Island Manual   secretary of state's office  

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Legislator's sibling named to Ethics Commission

6:00 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By News staff    Email

By KATHERINE GREGG and CYNTHIA NEEDHAM Journal State House Bureau Governor Carcieri's latest appointee to the state Ethics Commission, John Lynch, is the brother of freshman Sen. Erin Lynch, D-Warwick and of Bethany Furtado, a Warwick School Committee member. Lynch,......

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 Tags  Ethics Commission   John Lynch   Judge Francis J. Darigan Jr.  

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3 with public links get Senate jobs

6:00 AM Mon, Apr 06, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau The son of a former House majority leader, the husband of a District Court judge and a former chairman of the state Ethics Commission have all landed jobs on the state Senate......

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 Tags  Andrew Caruolo   George Mason   Richard Kirby   Senate  

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