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1:51 PM Thu, Dec 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the official announcement of his independent candidacy for governor only days away, former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee has once again dipped into his personal fortune to feed his campaign. In the closing days of the quarter......
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4:28 PM Wed, Dec 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By STEVE PEOPLES Journal State House Bureau COVENTRY, R.I. -- In a case that state Sen. Leonidas P. Raptakis fears may be political retaliation, local authorities are investigating an overnight incident at the politician's Coventry home. When Raptakis walked outside......
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2:54 PM Wed, Dec 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Democratic Party Chairman Bill Lynch is calling on Republican Governor Carcieri to release the time sheets, for the last six months, of a top aide who has announced his potential GOP candidacy for governor. He also urged......
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2:10 PM Wed, Dec 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Rhode Island Secretary of State's office says state law appears to bar political parties from closing their primaries to unaffiliated voters. The Rhode Island Republican Party is considering a plan to close its primary so......
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6:23 PM Tue, Dec 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lynn Arditi Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The two Democrats running for governor have canceled plans to participate in a Jan.8 candidate forum organized by a group called the Rhode Island Voter Coalition. The candidates -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and General Treasurer Frank......
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3:15 PM Tue, Dec 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri's communications director John Robitaille has thrown his hat into the ring as a potential Republican candidate for governor. In a interview on Tuesday, Robitaille said he knows he......
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4:36 PM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, RI. -- Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee will make it official on Monday, Jan. 4, that he is running for governor. A statement issued by his campaign on Monday said: "Over the last 25 years, while serving in leadership......
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1:31 PM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
CRANSTON, R.I. -- The draft-Laffey movement appears to be picking up steam among the heads of the state Republican party's city and town committees. Lincoln's Republican town chairman Michael Napolitano reports that the "chairpersons of thirty (30) Republican Town &......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- He's coming back, at least for a day. Darrell West, the former Brown University professor who is now vice president and director of governance studies for the Washington-based Brookings Institution,......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The idea was to have departments report to the House Finance Committee on compliance with the cost-cutting measures requested by Governor Carcieri. For the Emergency Management Agency, that was a little bit awkward. The EMA, charged with......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg and Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Frank T. Caprio has suspended his radio and TV ad campaign, while assembling what he calls "some of the top strategic minds in the country" to......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After days of behind-the-scenes intrigue, state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione and former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey finally talked face-to-face on Wednesday about Laffey's possible run for governor on the Republican ticket. They met for about an......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio will face off Jan. 8 for the first time as potential Democratic primary opponents in the race for governor.......
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2:37 PM Thu, Dec 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. After days of behind-the-scenes intrigue, state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione and former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey finally talked face-to-face on about Laffey's possible run for governor on the Republican ticket. They met for about an hour Wednesday in......
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5:18 PM Tue, Dec 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Frank T. Caprio has assembled what he calls "some of the top strategic minds in the country" to shape his bid to become Rhode Island's next governor. Responding to a Journal inquiry, Caprio -- a Democrat who......
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3:22 PM Tue, Dec 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Myrth York, a mainstay in local Democratic politics, has announced that she's backing Tom Sgouros' candidacy for general treasurer. "Since the early 1990's, Tom has worked alongside and for progressive candidates -- like me -- and community......
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12:37 PM Tue, Dec 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
WARWICK, R.I. -- Mark your calendars now for the first candidates forum of the new year for Governor Carcieri's would-be successors. The "Meet the Candidates Forum'' has been scheduled for 7 p.m., January 8 at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- She's back. Or more precisely, she never left. Adelita Orefice, embattled former state health and human services secretary, did not leave state government in the fall as previously thought. "For the last several months......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg and Ed Fitzpatrick PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Stay tuned for a "major announcement'' shortly after New Year's Day from former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee about the next step in his "exploratory campaign'' for governor. As to what it......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione is hailing the latest Brown University poll as evidence that the "approval numbers are in the dump'' for one of the two high-level Democratic incumbents running for governor. Aiming......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Have heads rolled within the largest state employees union as a result of the agreement that union leaders struck with the Carcieri administration this fall that traded a series of no-pay work days this......
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4:14 PM Fri, Dec 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Ed Fitzpatrick PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In January, John R. "J.R." Pagliarini will begin working as the campaign manager for former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, the Republican-turned-independent who is running for governor. Pagliarini, 48, of Warwick, was director of......
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1:23 PM Thu, Dec 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of the largest state employees union are denouncing Governor Carcieri's deficit-elimination plan as the "wrong idea at the wrong time.'' Republican Carcieri has proposed $125 million in municipal aid cuts, as part of his......
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3:14 PM Mon, Dec 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By STEVE PEOPLES and KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Carcieri administration is set to release Tuesday a detailed budget proposal to close a $219-million shortfall over the next six months. The budget-balancing plan, known commonly......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dave Reid Email
The fundraising season continues apace, with House Democratic leaders still counting the receipts from the $100-a- head event they held Dec. 3 to raise money for their House Democratic Leadership Committee. Held at Dave & Buster's in Providence Place, the......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dave Reid Email
Listening to Governor Carcieri speak on Friday, you had to wonder if he'd switched political parties as well. Or more to the point, if he was offering up a not-so-subtle endorsement of Democrat and House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox,......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dave Reid Email
It's no secret that Lincoln Chafee isn't happy with the Republican Party. The former United States senator defected from the GOP after his failed 2006 re-election bid and now hopes to become Rhode Island's first governor without a major party......
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3:13 PM Fri, Dec 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Republican candidate for governor Rory Smith announced Friday afternoon that he's backing out of the race. Rory Smith The announcement comes just 52 days after the East Greenwich businessman filed paperwork with the state Board of Elections indicating his intent......
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7:22 AM Tue, Dec 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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NEWPORT, R.I. -- State Republicans will gather here on Tuesday night to adopt their election-year platform. A proposal to "end political dynasties in the state by imposing term limits'' on state lawmakers is among the more controversial proposals up for......
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6:32 PM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The official start of the 2010 legislative session is still a month away, but House budget writers will hold the first of a series of hearings next week on Governor Carcieri's as-yet unseen plan for plugging the......
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3:57 PM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brendan Fogarty has left the top ranks of the largest Department of Transportation union for a higher-paying job as "constituent liaison for the House of Representatives.'' Moving across Smith Street bumped Fogarty's salary up by $13,124 annually......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau Democrat Stephen R. Archambault appears to be getting serious in his bid for state attorney general. Archambault, a Smithfield Town Council member and Lincoln town solicitor, has retained SMK Enterprises to oversee "all......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau Marisa White is moving again. As the executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services, White has coordinated the legislature's budget and personnel since 2003. She previously held a high-level human-resource position......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau The Senate Committee on Government Oversight invited two mayors and a town manager to its meeting last Wednesday, hoping to get a local take on "state mandates" that add to the cost of......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The treasurer's office has turned to an unlikely source to help bring new revenue to the state: eBay. That's right, General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio has notified Political Scene of plans to use......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau There's been another creature sighting in the State House. A couple of weeks after one Carcieri staffer spotted a rat in her first-floor office, another one discovered an unusual brown blob on the......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- 'Tis the season for Christmas parties, but legislative leaders are once again suspending their annual holiday revelries at the State House and limiting their campaign-financed hosting to end-of-year dinners for their......
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1:42 PM Tue, Dec 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP Photo/ Stew Milne Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., left, speaks with Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., prior to a news conference on credit card reform Tuesday in Providence. By Paul Grimaldi Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. Michael......
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