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Sen. Raptakis calls for emergency Senate session

11:40 AM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Katherine Gregg    Email

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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 Tags  Coventry   Rhode Island   Senate   State House   State Sen. Leonidas Raptakis  

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Progresso Latino's Martinez to challenge Kennedy?

4:47 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

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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 Tags  candidate   election   politics   Progreso Latino   Ramon Martinez  

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With end of quarter approaching, Chafee asks for donations

4:25 PM Wed, Sep 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

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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Loughlin moves forward with health-care town hall; Kennedy event not public

12:57 PM Tue, Sep 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Steve Peoples    Email

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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 Tags  health-care debate   John Loughlin   Patrick J. Kennedy  

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R.I. Moderate Party hires Hunsinger as executive director

3:34 PM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Steve Peoples    Email

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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 Tags  Christine Hunsinger   General Assembly   Moderate Party   providence ri  

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Slater puts his late father's signs to use

5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By News staff    Email

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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 Tags  Scott Slater   signs  

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George Nee's role to remain the same

5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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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 Tags  AFL-CIO   George Nee  

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Schadone, eyeing Speaker seat, trades salvos with Murphy

5:30 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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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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 Tags  Murphy   RI House Speaker   Schadone  

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