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6:43 PM Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE,R.I. -- House Speaker William J. Murphy has confirmed plans to leave the House - and the Speaker's rostrum - after he completes his term next year. In an interview with The Journal Wednesday, the West Warwick......
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5:42 PM Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House Speaker William J. Murphy is not denying a report that he has informed his top lieutenants in the State House that he does not intend to run for reelection in 2010, and is backing House......
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4:40 PM Wed, Sep 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With little more than a year to go before the first ballot is cast in Rhode Island's 2010 governor's race, the contest for campaign dollars has grown increasingly heated. Reports are not due to the state Board......
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4:50 PM Tue, Sep 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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State Rep. John J. Loughlin II is set to become Rhode Island's first Congressional challenger to host a "town hall" meeting on federal efforts to overhal the nation's health-care system. The Tiverton Republican, who has already filed papers with the......
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5:51 PM Mon, Sep 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state GOP has filed an ethics complaint against Atty. Gen. Patrick C. Lynch that accuses him of violating the state's $75 gift cap by accepting a roundtrip plane ticket worth $428.50 from the National Cable and......
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1:45 PM Mon, Sep 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has announced his hiring of a campaign manager for his 2010 run for governor. Lynch has hired Mike Mikus, whom he identified as a "veteran Democratic political operative,'' who has "worked......
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12:02 PM Mon, Sep 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Journal staff writer CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Ramón Martínez, president of the Latino advocacy group Progreso Latino, has resigned. Martínez, who headed the agency for a little more than three years, said he plans to pursue......
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11:40 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Sen. Leonidas Raptakis, D-Coventry, is urging Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed to call an emergency Senate session to explore ways to reduce the impact of municipal aid cuts on the cities and towns, and at......
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4:47 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Journal Staff Writer Ramon Martinez, president of the Hispanic advocacy group Progreso Latino, said he will announce Friday his intent to pursue "national endeavors" that could be political in nature. Martinez said he would "neither confirm......
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4:25 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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In an e-mail message distributed Wednesday afternoon, Lincoln D. Chafee asked his supporters to help him "return Rhode Island to its proper direction" by donating to his exploratory campaign for governor. "We cannot let partisan politics continue to drive our......
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12:57 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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State Rep. John J. Loughlin II, R-Tiverton, is moving forward with plans to host a "town hall" meeting on national health-care legislation, despite plans by his likely Congressional opponent, Patrick J. Kennedy, to host an invitation-only health-care forum this Saturday.......
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3:34 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's newest political party now has an executive director. Christine Hunsinger, whose name you may recognize from her brief stint as press secretary for Democratic Congressional hopeful Elizabeth Dennigan, has been chosen "to develop, design and......
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5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the city's West End, at least one candidate's campaign signs are generating buzz in the special election to fill the District 10 seat of late state Rep. Thomas Slater.......
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5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We wondered last week whether George Nee's role may change following his successful bid for president of the largest labor union organization in Rhode Island. Turns out, it won't. Nee,......
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5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The race for Speaker heated up last week when Rep. Gregory Schadone fired the opening shot in his long-running campaign for the top leadership post, and the incumbent -- William......
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12:09 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Journal staff writer CRANSTON, R.I -- Ivan G. Marte, chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Hispanic Assembly, says he has quit the GOP out of embarrassment at South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's......
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8:03 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House Speaker William J. Murphy has sent a sharply-worded response -- to one of his would-be successors at the podium -- for publicly criticizing him for not calling the House back sooner to tackle the state's economic......
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5:38 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Gregory Schadone has taken the opening shot in a campaign for House Speaker, by firing off an open letter criticizing the incumbent, William J. Murphy, and his leadership team for not bringing the House back sooner......
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12:27 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has begun sending out invitations for the swearing-in of new judges, including his former chief of staff Brian Stern, who is headed to the Superior Court after winning Senate confirmation last week. Stern's swearing-in has......
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2:17 PM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Having not yet reached final agreement with the state's unions on a pay-reduction plan aimed at averting shutdown days, Governor Carcieri is once again raising the possibility of large-scale......
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1:26 PM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has named Andrew Hodgkin as his new chief of staff. Hodgkin will replace Brian Stern, who was confirmed last week as associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior......
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10:45 AM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of the largest state employees union will decide Tuesday whether to seek a membership vote on a proposed agreement with the Carcieri Administration trading no-pay workdays for shutdown......
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10:34 AM Thu, Sep 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The largest labor organization in Rhode Island has elected a new leader. Longtime Rhode Island labor leader George Nee earned 75 percent of the vote in Wednesday night's contest at the Rhode Island Convention Center, surviving the......
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2:38 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Rep. James R. Langevin has announced that Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts will be his guest for President Obama's speech about health care to a joint session of Congress Wednesday. In a news release, Langevin stressed his......
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12:42 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By GLEN JOHNSON AP Political Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Joseph P. Kennedy II's decision not to seek the U.S. Senate seat long held by his late uncle, Edward M. Kennedy, has touched off a succession scramble. Three veteran Massachusetts......
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7:10 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples You won't see any ads for this campaign on television or in the newspaper, but the battle to control Rhode Island's AFL-CIO is heating up. Union officials will gather Wednesday night in the Rhode Island Convention Center......
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7:10 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples A member of the Obama cabinet is scheduled to visit Rhode Island Tuesday, part of an effort across 11 states to bring key Washington officials to local educational facilities during the president's "back to school" speech aimed......
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7:05 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jennifer D. Jordan, Journal education writer CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- Mayor Daniel J. McKee is Mr. June 2010. Got your attention now? McKee is the only New England official to be included in the "Democrats for Education Reform" 2009/2010 calendar,......
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7:00 AM Mon, Sep 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham, Journal State House bureau If you're looking for one last chance to pay your respects to the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, try the State House, or your local town hall. Rep. Patrick Kennedy's office has......
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5:34 PM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The full Senate will return Wednesday to consider judicial appointments. The Senate Judiciary committee will convene at 4 p.m. Tuesday to consider two nominees and on Wednesday, to consider two more. On Tuesday, the......
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6:41 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House bureau The Rhode Island Democratic Party this afternoon joined a gay-rights group in urging Governor Carcieri to cancel plans to headline a fundraising banquet for the Massachusetts Family Institute, an advocacy organization that considers......
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3:05 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rep. Stephen R. Ucci will undergo preventative cancer treatment next week that will likely keep the ambitious Johnston lawmaker from attending a special House session scheduled for mid October. "Despite my treatment and recuperation this fall, I want to make......
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12:31 PM Tue, Sep 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley appears to be the first candidate in a special election for the Senate seat left open by the death of Edward Kennedy. A woman who said she was representing Coakley picked up......
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