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By Katherine Gregg  Email
CRANSTON, R.I. - After many months on the road with his family, former Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey is back in Rhode Island with a $97,936.83 political fund. He returned on Sunday, July 26. But Laffey, who sold his home......
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4:10 PM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State lawmakers took a paycut, while the vast majority of state employees received a 2.5 percent raise on July 1. For the part-time lawmakers, this year brought the downside of having their annual raises tied by the......
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2:04 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
John Louglin hasn't officially announced his intent to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy for the 1st Congressional District. But all signs are pointing in that direction. Literally. Loughlin, a Republican state representative from Tiverton, gave us a small gift......
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2:00 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rep. James Langevin took part Wednesday morning in the debate over health-care reform, as the Rhode Island Democrat read from a constituent's letter on the floor of the U.S. House.......
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5:23 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state may not have to dip into its temporary disability insurance fund after all to pay its end-of-the-month bills, including a promised school-aid payment to the cities and towns. Last week, Governor Carcieri put legislative leaders......
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5:14 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy said Tuesday he hopes the General ASsembly is "able to tackle" a ban on text messaging while driving when it returns to Smith Hill this fall. His deputy, Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox, was more......
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4:26 PM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
House Speaker William J. Murphy won't be talking politics inside the House chamber this week. After delaying a promised July session, however, Murphy has accepted an invitation to talk politics on the radio. Yes, arguably the General Assembly most powerful......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr., who owns a big slice of the city's downtown real-estate, offered a blunt assessment of the local economy. In short, he said, "downtown is dead." The John F. Fogarty Building on......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Anyone trolling the Web who happened upon voteHealey.com might think that Cool Moose Party stalwart Robert Healey was a declared candidate for governor. It even says: "About a month ago I demanded that people considering a run......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ernest Carlucci, director of administration under former Cranston Mayor Michael Napolitano, landed a post as Providence's Parking Administrator, a new job title under the city Department of Public Works. Carlucci has been on the job since May,......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Many candidates would shy away from any hint they inhabit smoke-filled rooms, but not Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch. He was the "grateful'' beneficiary of a $100-a-head fundraiser hosted for him on Thursday night at a Federal......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Less than a year after retiring in 2006, George H. Truman Jr., the former associate director of human resources in the Department of Corrections, found a new career. In March 2007, after three decades in state government,......
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5:45 PM Sun, Jul 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lynn Arditi Email
PROVIDENCE_ Former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr., who owns a big slice of the city's downtown real-estate, offered a blunt assessment of the local economy. In short, he said, "downtown is dead." The John F. Fogarty Building on Fountain Street......
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1:44 PM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's pension fund lost more than 19 percent of its value over the last year, dropping from $7.8 billion to $6.1 billion in the last 12 months. The $6.1 billion is where the state-run fund for......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Despite rampant speculation, state Rep. Elizabeth M. Dennigan is refusing to say if she will run for Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District seat occupied by fellow Democrat James R. Langevin. But she is interested. That's according to......
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3:17 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY STEVE PEOPLES Journal State House Bureau Governor Carcieri is meeting this afternoon with union leaders to outline a tentative cost-cutting plan that includes furlough days for state workers. The General Assembly adopted a state budget late last month that......
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6:35 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Frank J. Montarano will not seek re-election as president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO in September, ending a reign at the powerful organized labor organization that spanned nearly two decades. The 75-year-old union leader......
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5:10 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's well-traveled attorney general was on the road again this week. Patrick Lynch was in Las Vegas between Sunday and Wednesday at "the invitation of the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals (ACA) International for......
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3:45 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri passed on an opportunity to attend the July 17-20 National Governors Association conference in Biloxi, Miss., citing "cost, schedule, family commitments.'' Spokeswoman Amy Kempe also cited a March 9 memorandum from the Department of Administration......
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4:27 PM Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Two members of Rhode Island's General Assembly are getting an up-close view of history in the making today. State Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed and state Sen. Juan M. Pichardo are among those in the audience for the U.S.......
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2:45 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse defended President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee Monday by criticizing what he called "the Roberts right-wing flank'' of the high court for its decisions on abortion, gun rights and other issues. "The right wing......
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3:24 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau The Republican National Committee and its friends within the state GOP have announced that the Marriott Hotel in Newport will be the site of the party's Northeast Regional Leadership Conference, Oct. 2-4. Under......
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3:04 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Ocean State Policy Research Institute, a citizens group cofounded by First Lady Suzanne Carcieri, has launched a Web site that allows Rhode Islanders to vote on what they think of the way this state is spending its federal......
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2:44 PM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau This week is a big week in the political life of House Minority Whip John Loughlin. On Sunday, the Tiverton Republican was headed to Washington for a few pointers on how, in his......
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3:00 PM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Providence Journal Washington Bureau JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will headline a high-dollar fundraiser on Jamestown Saturday evening under the sponsorship of U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy. A range of donations is suggested in......
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12:18 PM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
Governor Carcieri has vetoed several more bills including those that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote. This is the third year running that the legislature has passed preregistration legislation and also the third time that Carcieri has......
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10:11 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Providence Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. James R. Langevin was named Thursday to become chairman of a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee that is responsible for the nation's strategic missiles and related forces.......
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2:50 PM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Swearing-in ceremonies for the state's newest Superior Court judge - and the 51st chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court - have been scheduled for next week. On Thursday, July 16, Governor Carcieri will swear-in Supreme......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dave Reid Email
By Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts' announcement that she will not run for governor in 2010 has doused the ambitions of a number of Democrats who had previously considered a run, but has left Republican......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau William Camara is on the move again. The former administrator for the Rhode Island Veteran's Home in Bristol has been re-assigned to his fourth position in the last year. This one, according to......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dave Reid Email
By Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau Governor Carcieri is the face of Caring this month. Literally. The Rhode Island governor is featured on the cover of the recently-released June edition of Caring magazine, the publication of the National Association......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau Here's a thought to chew on: Members of the state Senate do not actually have to be present - and voting - to have their "votes'' recorded in the official Senate Journal as......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau The State Police last week investigated a State House confrontation involving a handful of state officials and Henry Fellela, the husband of Johnston state Rep. Deborah Fellela. Sen. John J. Tassoni and Leo......
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5:02 PM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Peter Phipps Email
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race. The former......
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1:23 PM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Email
The flood of legislation never materialized from the State House this week, but the water did. From the men's bathroom that is. A broken flush feature on a urinal in a first-floor men's room led to a not-so-minor flood that......
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6:12 PM Thu, Jul 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Making good on an earlier warning, Governor Carcieri has vetoed legislation allowing Twin River to operate 24-hours a day, seven days a week, while also forcing the owners of the Lincoln track and slot parlor to drop......
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6:10 PM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Municipal employees were spared the ax during the last pension-cutting drive at the State House, but not the attention of state lawmakers who have now launched a "Special Senate Commission to Study Municipal Pensions.'' The resolution......
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3:34 PM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Backers of the successful drive to legalize the sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes have now won Senate support for a study of what, if anything, is being accomplished by criminalizing use of the plant for......
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12:29 PM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There's a little confusion on Smith Hill about when the state will officially celebrate Independence Day. July 4, as most of us know by now, falls on a Saturday. The federal government will be closed on Friday,......
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