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Poll: R.I. voters blame Assembly for budget woes
By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While Governor Carcieri's popularity has suffered through much of his second term in office, most Rhode Island voters do not blame the Republican governor for the state's budget problems. A WPRI-TV, Channel 12 poll...
February 5, 2010 6:20 pm
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Magazine piece looks at Reed's role with Obama, Gates
In the front row: U.S. Sen. Jack Reed was among the top advisers watching President Obama's Dec. 1 speech on a new strategy in Afghanistan at West Point, N.Y. From left are: National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones; Deputy National...
February 5, 2010 3:48 pm
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State House buzz: Speaker Murphy may step down next week
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The betting on when House Speaker William J. Murphy will step down has intensified, with some of his fellow Democrats anticipating a Democratic caucus early next week to anoint House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox as...
February 5, 2010 3:47 pm
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R.I. Rep. Loughlin makes Kennedy challenge official
Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers State Rep. John Loughlin announces his candidacy for Congress Thursday morning in Lincoln. By Katherine Gregg LINCOLN, R.I.-- John J. Loughlin II, a three-term state representative from Tiverton, has formally launched his bid to unseat...
February 4, 2010 12:00 pm
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Majority Leader Fox files bill to close ethics loophole
By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox has introduced a bill to give voters a chance to close a newly-carved hole in state ethics law that has insulated state lawmakers from Ethics Commission scrutiny and...
February 4, 2010 11:28 am
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Gary Sasse, Carcieri's administration director, resigns
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gary Sasse, Governor Carcieri's director of administration, has served notice of his resignation, effective March 1. When rumors of his imminent departure swirled last week, Sasse assured reporters he would be at the unveiling of Carcieri's budget...
February 4, 2010 10:02 am
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Speaker race: Schadone blasts Fox over liquor board role
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Rep. Gregory Schadone, D-North Providence, has attacked his opponent in the race for House speaker -- frontrunner and Majority Leader Gordon Fox -- over Fox's tenure on the Providence Board of Licenses. In a Sunday Providence Journal story...
February 3, 2010 5:39 pm
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Fernandez cash tops other declared R.I. A.G. candidates
By Michael McKinney Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Among the candidates listed as running for Rhode Island attorney general, Democrat Joseph M. Fernandez raised the most campaign cash in the latest reporting period, according to filings with the Board...
February 2, 2010 2:41 pm
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ACORN co-founder to speak at Brown
By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is scheduled to speak at Brown University Feb. 9. Rathke served as ACORN's lead organizer from its founding in 1970 until...
February 1, 2010 1:07 pm
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Archambault raises $101,000 in AG campaign
SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Steven Archambault, the Smithfield Town Council member campaigning to become the next attorney general, has raised $101,240 since he announced his candidacy in May. Over the last three months of 2009, Archambault raised $39,320 in donations toward...
February 1, 2010 12:55 pm
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Moderate Party ready to announce gubernatorial candidate
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Moving forward following a campaign finance dispute with the state Board of Elections, the Moderate Party of Rhode Island has released a plan to announce its candidates for governor, attorney general and the state legislature later in...
February 1, 2010 12:30 pm
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Rep. Loughlin to make Kennedy challenge official
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With former Republican Governor Lincoln Almond at his side, state Rep. John Loughlin will make it official on Thursday that he is seeking the 1st Congressional District seat held for the last 15 years by Democrat...
February 1, 2010 12:26 pm
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Did polling data affect Laffey's announcement on run?
By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau Former Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey removed himself last month from the 2010 gubernatorial sweepstakes. The question: did he make that decision before or after he got what he paid for from the Barry...
February 1, 2010 7:15 am
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Stokes awaits confirmation in Senate run by his 'great friend'
By Cynthia Needham, Journal Staff Writer Rhode Island's new economic development chief Keith Stokes has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. But at Political Scene, we're not expecting much controversy on that one, for reasons that go back four...
February 1, 2010 7:05 am
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One more Democratic candidates supports Coalition
By Steve Peoples, Journal State House Bureau Frank Caprio drew criticism late last month for promising to donate money to an organization dedicated, in part, to fighting the influence of public-sector unions on Smith Hill. But he wasn't the only...
February 1, 2010 7:00 am
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Lynch, Caprio respond to town budget issue in speech
By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau How to tell the two high-profile Democratic candidates for governor apart? Capitol Television provided one possible answer to that question during Governor Carcieri's state of the state address last week. The cameras zeroed...
February 1, 2010 6:30 am
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Municipal finance chief gets a go-ahead from ethics board
By Randal Edgar, Journal State House Bureau House Finance Chairman Steven M. Costantino isn't the only State House regular who might have career decisions looming. Peder A. Schaefer, chief of the state Division of Municipal Finance, says he has not...
February 1, 2010 6:02 am
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Letter sent to Cosper, but where did it end up?
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The governor's office was not pleased when Political Scene recently reported its effort to replace longtime state Mental Health Advocate H. Reed Cosper. At issue is whether the administration notified Cosper, as stated by Carcieri spokeswoman Amy...
February 1, 2010 6:00 am
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More rumors that Sasse is leaving Carcieri post
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's been rumored more than once during the past two years that Gary Sasse, Governor Carcieri's director of administration, was quitting. And the rumors were never hotter than on Friday, when people in the State House and...
February 1, 2010 6:00 am
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Rep. Gallison takes a spot on House Finance Committee
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Given the choice, Rep. Raymond E. Gallison, D-Bristol, preferred a seat on the powerful House Finance Committee, to his chairmanship of the House Committee on Municipal Government. Rep. John J. McCauley, D-Providence, is taking his municipal government...
February 1, 2010 6:00 am
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Resolution honors, teases ex-Sen. Stephen Alves
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Voters took away his storied eight-term perch at the State House in 2008. But former Senate Finance Chairman Stephen Alves, D-West Warwick, was given a hero's welcome when he returned to the chamber Tuesday. His ex-colleagues passed...
February 1, 2010 6:00 am
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