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Laffey, R.I. GOP chairman meet, discuss potential candidacy
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...
December 24, 2009 2:37 pm
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Caprio builds team of Democratic campaign veterans
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...
December 22, 2009 5:18 pm
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York backs Sgouros in bid for R.I. general treasurer
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...
December 22, 2009 3:22 pm
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R.I. Voter Coalition to host gubernatorial candidates forum
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...
December 22, 2009 12:37 pm
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Former R.I. health chief now on H1N1 flu duty
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...
December 21, 2009 7:00 am
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Chafee announcement coming?
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...
December 21, 2009 7:00 am
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R.I. GOP chief says Lynch's dip in poll speaks volumes
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...
December 21, 2009 7:00 am
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Opinions vary on reasons behind union shakeups
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...
December 21, 2009 7:00 am
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