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1:30 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A day after settling on Oct. 7 and 8 as the days the House of Representatives will reconvene, House Democratic leaders have decided to delay the return by one week. The new plan calls......
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7:00 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker William J. Murphy has notified lawmakers in his chamber that the House will not return next week, as originally contemplated, but on Oct. 7 and 8. It remains......
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1:07 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / Elise Amendola A photo of the Kennedy brothers from the early 1960s is part of the display in the lobby of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston Wednesday, the day after U.S.......
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12:33 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Maurice Green, a Providence police officer, has announced his candidacy for state representative in House District 10, in the Nov. 10 special election to replace the late Democratic Rep. Thomas Slater. Green, 44, of 127 Rutherglen Ave.,......
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12:19 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The liberal-leaning, union-backed blog RIFuture.org has a new owner. Patrick Crowley, a top-level official at the National Education Association of Rhode Island, confirmed in an e-mail that he has sold the "progressive news blog'' to Brian......
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2:13 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / John Freidah Spectators were on hand by land and by sea outside the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday, hours after it was announced that U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy had died at his Cape......
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12:07 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo from the John F. Kennedy Library Museum Taken in 1962, this photo shows the Kennedy brothers during the "Camelot" days at the White House, when President John F. Kennedy, at right, was in office. At left, Robert F.......
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3:36 PM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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U.S. Sen. Jack Reed answers questions from projo.com readers during Tuesday's live chat on health-care reform, with the help of projo.com producer Pamela Reinsel Cotter. Providence Journal photo / Sandor Bodo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.,......
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12:58 PM Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP photo / Steven Senne For those who might have been wondering whether President Obama walks or takes a cart on the golf course as he vacations on Martha's Vineyard this week: On Tuesday, he drove. Above, he shares......
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12:57 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / Steven Senne The First Family is in the second day of their vacation on Martha's Vineyard, and already the souvenirs of their trip are in the stores. A likeness of the Obama family's first dog, Bo,......
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12:37 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Mark Weed, the longtime husband of Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed died Saturday at the age of 50, after a battle with cancer. On the opening day of the 2009 legislative session,......
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7:10 AM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, RI -- Back in June Mayor David Cicilline's protracted battle with city firefighters hit a fevered pitch. Using the threat of a union picket, firefighters successfully forced Democratic Vice President Joseph Biden and a host of......
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7:06 AM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Randy Edgar, Journal Staff Writer In Cranston, the school committee's decision in the spring to pay retiring Supt. M. Richard Scherza $25,000 to stay on as a consultant during July and August was portrayed by committee members as a......
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7:05 AM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau Remember the controversy that erupted last week between right- and left-wing groups in the hours before Congressman James R. Langevin's town hall meeting on health care? The Rhode Island Young Republicans issued a......
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