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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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,...
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...