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June 2009 Archives
8:03 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri on Tuesday reluctantly signed into law a $7.8-billion budget package that raises Rhode Island's gas tax by 2 cents per gallon, cuts millions of dollars from cities and towns, and trims pension benefits for thousands......
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6:24 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri Tuesday urged the General Assembly to give voters a chance to extend the state's ethics code to cover legislative votes and official actions taken by Rhode Island lawmakers. Reacting to a ruling Monday by the......
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6:21 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill in which registered sex offenders who temporarily live in the state for at least 14 days would have to register at the police station in the community where they......
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4:49 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, .R.I. -- The Senate has voted and sent to the governor a bill to allow round-the-clock gambling, seven days a week at Twin River, while also forcing the owners of the bankrupt track and slot parlor to drop their......
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2:56 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri said Tuesday afternoon he's signed the $7.8-billion state budget behind closed doors in his office. The spending plan becomes law Wednesday, the beginning of the new fiscal year. The......
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1:06 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two top executives from Harrah's Entertainment, the Las Vegas-based company that financed the 2006 drive for the proposed Narragansett Indian casino in House Speaker William J. Murphy's hometown of West Warwick, were back at the Rhode Island......
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6:42 PM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Internet giant Amazon.com has severed ties with all Rhode Island businesses, a move intended to shield the massive online retailer from the General Assembly's push to begin taxing some online......
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5:45 PM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE,, R.I. -- Term-limited Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has assembled a campaign team for his likely run for governor next year. To lead his fundraising efforts, Lynch has tapped Democratic fundraising consultant Scott Gale, the president of the Fundraising......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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If it wasn't clear that Providence City Councilman John J. Lombardi was interested in running for mayor, his new Web site might do the trick. On Wednesday, the Democrat, who represents Federal Hill, launched "Lombardi for Providence," a slick political......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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While we're still trying to figure out what lawmakers will do this week, it's worth noting an important date that's a year away. Almost exactly one year from today -- June 30, 2010 -- will be a big week......
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10:45 PM Sun, Jun 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the legislative Web site signaled the likelihood of a Senate session on Monday, the chamber's leaders have decided instead to return to work at 4 p.m. Tuesday, for a one-day session, and then possibly not return......
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3:45 AM Sat, Jun 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham, Steve Peoples and Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With scores of bills still in limbo, the General Assembly went into hiatus at 1 a.m. Saturday, as House Speaker William J. Murphy cited the......
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2:36 PM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Governor Carcieri will either have to veto or sign the state budget once it hits his desk. A delay in the Senate -- the state spending plan still isn't posted for a vote on today's Senate calendar -- has forced......
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1:39 PM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House and Senate will be back at it on Smith Hill this afternoon fighting through hundreds of bills as they race to adjourn for the summer. They will have their work cut out for them if......
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11:50 PM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawmakers approved a plan creating a statewide ban on pub crawls late Thursday night, sending it to the governor's desk. The bill, proposed five years after a college student was struck and killed by a bus during......
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2:05 AM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Minutes before 2 a.m., after a debate that spanned nearly 11 hours, the House of Representatives approved a $7.76-billion state spending plan that wiped out millions of dollars to cities and towns, narrowed pension benefits for thousands of state workers......
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6:16 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katie Mulvaney PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former legal counsel for the Rhode Island State Lottery Commission is the newest member of the nine-member panel that helps select the state's judges. Governor Carcieri chose Robert M. Silva, of Middletown, from......
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1:56 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It is budget-cutting day at the State House, but not when it comes to the free health care packages costing up to $17,296 that are given the state's part-time lawmakers and their own families. The $7.76 billion......
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12:13 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's that time of year again on Smith Hill. The Senate on Tuesday officially suspended its rules that require advance public notice of hearings and votes. While we're waiting to hear whether the House has done the same thing, a......
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6:55 PM Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Tuesday night voted 64 to 4 to approve a bill allowing the Woonsocket School Committee to establish a dress code for public-school students. The bill, already passed by the Senate,......
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6:26 PM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We couldn't help but notice an interesting note on Governor Carcieri's public schedule for Tuesday. In the 4 to 5 p.m. slot, he scheduled a "photo opportunity with constituents." "It's an opportunity for the governor to fill......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The annual frenzy continued last week in Room 35. The House Finance Committee on Wednesday unveiled and approved its 2010 budget, racing through two dozen complex budget articles that had been released to......
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5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The political shots last week were not limited to the House Finance Committee. Talk radio listeners got a treat when WPRO host John DePetro asked Governor Carcieri about Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts' push......
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5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau An unsuccessful '08 candidate for a South County seat in the Rhode Island legislature has taken over the reins of the citizens' advocacy group Operation Clean Government. Larry Valencia was elevated to the......
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5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau As president of the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers & Health Professionals, Marcia Reback spends many waking hours at the State House, but has never had occasion to be personally named in a......
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1:57 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We couldn't help but notice the unusual force with which Juan Pichardo banged the gavel this week. We later learned there was reason to be excited. The state senator from Providence, who is officially the Senate's deputy......
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11:48 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Friday morning, Sheldon Whitehouse joined Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's Morning Joe for a discussion on health-care reform. The Rhode Isalnd Democrat talked about the urgent need to expand coverage to the millions of Americans without health......
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8:07 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network's hit The 700 Club late Thursday night, Governor Carcieri detailed to the religious station his now familiar stance in opposition to gay marriage. The segment -- essentially......
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4:57 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer Mock Senate President Sarah Moffitt, center, a senior from The Prout School in Wakefield, looks for a ruling from Timothy Sebring, also a senior from Prout, the Parliamentarian, during a mock Senate debate......
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4:04 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The state Board of Pharmacy has taken disciplinary action against Sen. Leo R. Blais, R-Coventry, for a spate of violations uncovered in a routine state inspection of his pharmacy, Pawtuxet Valley Prescription & Surgical Center, in October 2007,......
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3:51 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- During an unrelated press conference Thursday afternoon, Governor Caricieri blasted the legislature's state budget plan for the coming year -- endorsed by the House Finance Committee Wednesday -- as "a non-starter" with "no coherence" and "no rationale,"......
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10:47 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- The House of Representatives has cancelled today's afternoon floor session to give the House Finance Committee time to focus on the budget, which will be unveiled today at 1 p.m. "We don't know how late the Finance......
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9:54 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Connie Grosch In a visual echo of politicians past, State Rep. David Caprio, D-Narragansett, left, talks with Rep. Kenneth Carter, D-North Kingstown, before a closed-door caucus begins Tuesday in the lounge of the R.I. House......
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4:10 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican Governor Carcieri is lashing back at Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, a Democrat, for what he calls her "irresponsible and erroneous accusations'' about his administration's agreement to pay $370,000 to the Lucas Group for its consulting work......
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3:58 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Democratic Party Chairman Bill Lynch is demanding that Republican Governor Carcieri disclose the names of any "corporate backers'' paying for the radio ad campaign touting his tax-and-spending proposals. There was no immediate response from the governor's office,......
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10:43 AM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A top-level Carcieri administration official has written House Finance Chairman Steven Costantino to assure him of his commitment to continuing overnight gambling at Twin River on weekends and the nights before holidays. The letter went out......
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6:20 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Support for an investigation of the Carcieri administration's newly-disclosed agreement to pay $370,000 to a no-bid, no-contract Medicaid consultant is growing, with both Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and Atty. Gen. Patrick C. Lynch demanding answers and a......
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3:06 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Christine Dunn Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Mark S. Weiner and his wife, L. Susan Weiner, of East Greenwich, have filed a lawsuit against Carnegie Tower Development Company Inc., seeking return of their $219,300......
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2:52 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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The legislature is set to release the 2010 state budget on Wednesday, according to a posting updated this afternoon on the General Assembly Web site. Specifically, the House Finance Committee is scheduled to unveil the sweeping $7-billion plan Wednesday at......
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1:43 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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A new poll funded by a group opposed to gay marriage has found that a plurality of Rhode Islanders oppose same-sex unions. Forty-three percent of respondents said they oppose same-sex marriage, while 36 percent supported the idea, according to the......
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1:31 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts is calling for an investigation by the attorney general into the Carcieri administration's promise to pay $370,000 to a no-bid, no-contract consultant on Medicaid reform that it had previously - and......
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11:55 AM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy Douglas H. Palmer, mayor of Trenton, N.J., left, and Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta, Ga., who is chairman of the nominating committee, talk Monday before the start of the business/plenary session on the......
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5:37 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Bob Thayer Miami Mayor A. Manuel Diaz, left, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino chat Friday as mayors, support staffers, vendors and lobbyists arrive for the first day of the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting. Their gathering,......
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5:12 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three days after the Senate confirmation of a new state chief of health and human services amid unanswered questions about the role played by a no-bid, no-contract consultant on Rhode Island's Medicaid overhaul, the Carcieri administration has......
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2:09 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The chasm between Republican Governor Carcieri and House Republican Leader Robert Watson flared to the forefront again last week when Watson voted against an insurance bill, carrying his name, that he had introduced for the administration.......
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12:52 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Most businesses hoping to come to Rhode Island don't get to make their pitch from the speaker's rostrum. But most businesses aren't Narragansett Beer. Officials for the Rhode Island brew with the famous name hit the State House Thursday to......
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7:11 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
As rumors swirled about when and if House leaders will hold a Democratic caucus to gauge political support for the soon-to-be released state budget, Majority Leaders Gordon D. Fox Thursday night assured colleagues it won't happen this week. "We're going......
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6:55 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
The rivalry will not die. Lawmakers are already debating dueling plans to create official Red Sox and Yankees license plates. Now, we learn that two lawmakers' relatives may be dueling each other on the diamond. House Finance Committee chairman Steven......
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3:39 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The state Senate has approved legislation to force the owners of the Twin River greyhound track and slot parlor to continue live dog-racing as a condition for remaining open all-night on weekends and holidays. The vote was......
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1:17 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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In the politically correct landscape of 2009, health advocates say it is an embarrassment that Rhode Island still boasts a state agency called the Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals. Retaining the word "retardation" in the name of a......
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11:44 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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This October, Rhode Island state Rep. Thomas C. Slater is set to receive a national NeighborWorks America Government Service award in Washington D.C. for his efforts to improve local housing. The Washington group will honor Slater for his commitment to......
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9:54 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State lawmakers are attempting to give parents who have lost an adult child as the result of a "wrongful act, neglect or default of another person'' a new right to sue for loss of companionship and collect......
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4:44 PM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / John Freidah Callan Maynard, 22, from the office of Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, joins a group of interns Thursday at the Rhode Island Convention Center stuffing goodie bags to be handed out at the......
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3:42 PM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After more than a year of study, a panel appointed by House Speaker William J. Murphy has posted online the results of a study pointing the way to a potential $90 million in taxpayer savings on......
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3:21 PM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri's selection to lead the state Supreme Court, Paul A. Suttell, met Wednesday afternoon behind closed doors with Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed. He arrived alone at Paiva-Weed's third-floor State House office just before 2:30 p.m.......
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11:58 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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State government spends way too much on bottled water. That's the mesage from the Boston-based Corporate Accountability International, a corproate watchdog group that plans to hold a news conference at the State House Thursday at 11 a.m. The group found......
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11:36 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal staff writer Despite mounting talk on local blogs about Rhode Island House Minority Whip John Loughlin's plan to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy for his congressional seat, Loughlin says this morning that he's made no decisions......
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4:44 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Amid unanswered questions about how much he relied on Medicaid reforms conceived and sold to federal officials by a failed GOP congressional candidate in New Hampshire who is also a friend, Rhode Island's acting chief of health......
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2:46 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the release of the General Assembly's state budget set for as soon as Friday, Governor Carcieri has had little to say publicly about the massive spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1. During......
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3:30 PM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Governor Carcieri will travel to Washington D.C. Wednesday for a roundtable discussion with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the future of math and science education in this country. The meeting will coincide with a release of a new......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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It was not a packed public hearing, but the notion of big raises for select state workers in this economic climate drew sharp words last week from some corners. Robert Benson, vice president of the advocacy group Operation Clean Government,......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By CYNTHIA NEEDHAM Journal State House Bureau A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Wellington Hall. Now the Providence engineer's picture is on newsstands across the country. Hall, 25, is featured in Fortune magazine's latest issue, one of......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau Governor Carcieri has not yet disclosed how he proposes to close the expanded $200-million deficit for this year and next. With the General Assembly in its closing weeks, he has not held a......
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4:29 PM Fri, Jun 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lynn Arditi Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Vice President Joseph Biden and key members of the Obama administration have canceled plans to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting -- which begins next Friday in Providence --......
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4:42 PM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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As the General Assembly races toward the end of its 2009 legislative session, its most powerful members met behind closed doors with Governor Carcieri Thursday afternoon. Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed joined House Speaker William J. Murphy in the......
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1:16 PM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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The state Senate has delayed today's scheduled vote on a plan to change Rhode Island's public records law. Prompted by concerns raised by open records advocates last month, the bill's sponsor, J. Michael Lenihan, D-East Greenwich, is still working to......
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1:09 PM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We spotted an unfamiliar camera crew in the State House this week and learned that the Virginia-based Christian Broadcast Network was in town to do a report on Rhode Island's gay marriage debate. Sen. Charles J. Levesque,......
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10:14 AM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor meets with U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. AP photo By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Federal......
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6:46 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Tuesday urged key Senate Democrats - including Rhode Island's Jack Reed - to help deliver a sweeping overhaul of the medical system during the "make-or-break period'' between now and August. Reed left the meeting, in......
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6:09 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A handful of Rhode Island's top religious leaders gathered in the State House Tuesday afternoon to urge elected officials to back off plans to cut 3,000 low-income families off Rhode Island's welfare rolls at the end of......
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5:38 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Responding to one of the more heart-wrenching personal stories to emerge from the same-sex marriage debate, the Rhode Island Senate Tuesday unanimously approved a bill giving "domestic partners'' the right......
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3:56 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE,R.I. -- House Democratic leaders have scheduled a hearing for Friday on potential changes to the state pension system. The House Finance hearing on the undisclosed package begins at noon at the State House. After more than a year......
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5:56 PM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Raises are in the offing for a handful of state officials. On Tuesday, Department of Administration director Gary Sasse will hold a public hearing on proposed salary increases for the chief medical examiner; the executive director of......
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4:31 PM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis said today he will not press for an appeal of Friday's federal court ruling throwing out the election law that limited when new......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau You know times are tough when a top legislative honcho is putting out news releases heralding upgraded sidewalks on one street in his hometown. "Speaker of the House William J. Murphy is pleased......
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6:00 AM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- Whoops. After a closer look at the looming $589,218 deficit in Governor Carcieri's $4.7-million office budget, his apologetic spokeswoman, Amy Kempe, acknowledged apologetically that she was wrong when she attributed......
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