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September 27, 2009 - October 3, 2009 Archives
4:45 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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State Democratic Party Chairman William Lynch is about to become a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. Lynch will be inducted during an Oct. 9 ceremony at Mohegan Sun as one of 20 people in the Hall's......
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4:44 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence businessman Rory Smith is mulling a Republican run for governor, according to the head of the state Republican party. Chairman Giovanni Cicione confirmed that he is trying to recruit Smith to become a candidate, along with "a bunch" of......
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1:20 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Majority Leader Gordon Fox may have outgoing House Speaker William J. Murphy's vote of confidence, but his competitors for the top leadership post in the House are not backing down. Quite the contrary. Mindful of the......
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12:12 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Democratic National Committee has announced the hiring of recent Brown graduate Emilie Aries to lead the Rhode Island chapter of an Obama campaign off-shoot organization called "Organizing for America." The group, according to a DNC statement, is "committed to......
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6:50 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Elizabeth "Betsy" Dennigan announced Thursday night that she has resigned her General Assembly seat of the last 13 years, effective immediately. Dennigan will instead focus on her 2010 Congressional primary campaign against......
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5:54 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Governor Carcieri was a key player in dueling conference calls with national media outlets Thursday, serving as the Republican National Committee's latest voice in its fight against Congressional Democrats' push to overhaul the nation's health-care system. The Rhode Island governor......
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3:46 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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He's still not saying he's an official gubernatorial candidate, but Lincoln Chafee's "exploratory campaign" has announced the hiring of a international communications firm with experience on several high-profile campaigns. The firm, Devine Mulvey, has "produced media for 17 winning U.S.......
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1:06 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri has been chosen as a national Republican surrogate to speak to reporters Thursday afternoon about the impact of national health-care on states. The 2:30 p.m. call will be "to discuss the impact President Obama's health......
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11:27 AM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An overwhelming majority -- 87 percent -- of Providence voters polled recently by Brown University researchers say the city's economy is poor, and more than half say their families are worse off financially than they were last......
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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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