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5:09 PM Sun, Feb 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A California Congressman at the forefront of the national GOP drive to privatize Social Security is coming to Rhode Island on March 13 to help state Rep. John Loughlin raise......
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3:34 PM Fri, Feb 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island's delegation to the U.S. Senate is the nation's most liberal, with Democrats Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse tied in the number one spot, with partisans from three other......
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8:37 AM Fri, Feb 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two weeks ago, the South Providence library got a framed, ready-for-hanging portrait of state Sen. Harold Metts, D-Providence. A second city library received a similar photograph of state Rep. Joanne Giannini, D-Providence, with the book "100 Great......
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4:14 PM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Kerrie Bennett, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's press secretary since 2008, said Thursday that she will depart the congressman's staff to become a senior communications officer at the non-profit Rhode Island......
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1:58 PM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Statewide Coalition, which bills itself as a non-partisan, but center-right organization, has lined up two speakers for its winter meeting: a former director of the state GOP and the radio talk show host......
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1:12 PM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Robert Weygand, the former 2nd District Congressman who has been out of office since an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2000, has decided against running for the 1st Congressional District seat that......
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11:51 AM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Angel Taveras, a former congressional candidate and city Housing Court judge, announced his candidacy for mayor Thursday morning in the parking lot of an abandoned supermarket in Olneyville. Taveras said the former Price-Rite Supermarket,......
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6:21 PM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. --The two announced Democratic candidates seeking to replace U.S. Rep Patrick Kennedy are taking differing views on the proposed jobs bill currently making its way through Congress. Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, who is in Washington, D.C. this......
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12:44 PM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City Councilman Michael A. Solomon says he will seek re-election rather than run for mayor. A first-term Democrat who represents Elmhurst and Mount Pleasant, Solomon cited taxes, job creation and support of small businesses as his top......
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11:41 AM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In his first week at the rostrum, House Speaker Gordon Fox has launched a weekly newsletter. The first went out on Tuesday, when state lawmakers returned from a week-long break.......
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6:36 PM Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- General Treasurer Frank Caprio has lined up the endorsement of a third Democratic town committee in his quest to become governor. The Bristol Democratic Town Committee unanimously endorsed Caprio this week over his likely primary opponent,......
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5:51 PM Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Angel Taveras, former congressional candidate and city housing court judge, says he will announce his candidacy for mayor on Thursday morning in Olneyville. His announcement will take place at 10 a.m. at 80 Manton Ave. in Olneyville......
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4:45 PM Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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by KATHERINE GREGG Providence Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nicholas Pell, the 32-year-old grandson of the late U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell, has decided against running for Congress in Rhode Island. An investment banker in New York, Pell issued......
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12:12 PM Tue, Feb 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- General Treasurer Democrat Frank Caprio appears to be leading the state's attorney general, Patrick C. Lynch, among Democratic gubernatorial primary voters. But at a time when Rhode Island voters seem to have very little confidence in the major......
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6:18 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two national gay rights groups endorsed Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, who is openly gay, in his bid for Congress in the First District on Monday. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and......
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4:42 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Sen. Juan M. Pichardo, the state's first Latino state senator, will seek re-election rather than run for mayor, according to an announcement sent out to supporters on Monday. Pichardo, in his letter, says his priorities as......
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3:59 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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Frank Caprio's campaign confirmed this afternoon that he will join a crowd of gubernatorial hopefuls at a "Meet the Candidates" forum Wednesday night, offering the public its first opportunity to watch the key Democrat face off against the leading independent,......
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2:42 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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A Rhode Island candidate for general treasurer has earned the endorsement of EMILY's List, the national political organization committed to backing pro-choice Democratic women. EMILY's List on Monday announced its support of Gina Raimondo, a 38-year-old Providence mother of two,......
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1:18 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dr. Daniel S. Harrop, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2006, has formed an exploratory committee to prepare for a mayoral run this year. In a statement issued Monday, Harrop, a Republican, said he had planned to......
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12:28 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, independent candidate for governor, will hold a press conference in front of Central Falls High School at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Chafee said he wants the city's teachers' union and the school......
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8:08 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Gregory Smith Journal staff writer East Greenwich lawyer Robert E. Rainville, a lobbyist and former probate court judge in West Warwick, announced Friday that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Rhode Island attorney general. A......
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2:18 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayoral candidate Steven M. Costantino, a state representative, has $267,274 in his campaign account, after loaning his campaign $150,000 at the end of 2009, according to state campaign finance reports. Costantino, who announced his run for mayor......
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1:57 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City Councilor John J. Lombardi, who announced Monday that he is running for mayor, appointed former local television news reporter Julie Ruditzky to serve as campaign press secretary, according to a news release Friday. Ruditzky worked for......
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1:54 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In the future you may want to address House Speaker Gordon D. Fox and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed as "Doctor.'' Rhode Island College will bestow honorary doctorate degrees on the General Assembly's top leaders during......
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1:43 PM Fri, Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Now that he is back in the spotlight running for a job he proposes to abolish -- lieutenant governor, Cool Moose Party founder Robert J. Healey is also mounting an "e-mail this to your friends" campaign which......
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4:36 PM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed has decided against running for Congress, for the seat held by U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy. Kennedy's unexpected announcement last week that he was not running for reelection,......
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1:04 PM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Democrat Bill Lynch is calling on his Congressional primary opponent David Cicilline to return every dollar that remains of the $759,284 he raised for his presumed campaign for reelection as mayor of Providence. On......
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9:46 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Steven M. Costantino will announce his candidacy for Providence mayor at noon Thursday in Prospect Park on Congdon Street, according to a campaign statement. Costantino, 52, a Democrat, is currently chairman of the House Finance......
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7:28 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With endorsements starting to roll in from the Democratic outposts in Rhode Island, General Treasurer Frank Caprio has taken an early lead over his likely Democratic primary opponent in the......
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3:22 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline's campaign will refund some, but not all, of the $750,000 in donations to his re-election campaign so that supporters can contribute to his federal campaign for Congress, according to campaign spokesman Brett P.......
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6:34 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts has decided to run for reelection, rather than taking a shot at winning the 1st District Congressional seat held for the last 15 years by Patrick......
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5:19 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline is shaking things up at City Hall and in his political campaign in preparation for his Congressional run, which he announced on Saturday. Political Director Patrick Gould says he and the mayor reached......
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3:20 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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Rep. John Loughlin II, the only declared Republican candidate in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District, just might stand to the left of conservative commentator Sean Hannity. That's one possible conclusion from Loughlin's appearance Monday on Hannity's Fox News television......
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2:07 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kenneth J. Block has stepped down as the chairman of the new political party he founded to run for governor, clearing the way for former U.S. Attorney Robert Corrente to take his place as......
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1:26 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former state Sen. Myrth York, a three-time Democratic nominee for governor, is "seriously considering'' a run for mayor of Rhode Island's largest city now that the incumbent, David Cicilline, has set his sights on......
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4:45 PM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama issued this statement today about U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's decision not to seek reelection this year: "Through his eight terms in the United States House of Representatives, Patrick Kennedy has worked tirelessly on behalf of......
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3:43 PM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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by Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts is promising her decision "in the next few days.'' Former U.S. Rep. Robert Weygand is promising a decision by Friday of next week. The two high-profile Democrats are among those......
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10:04 AM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Days after stepping aside as House majority whip, state Rep. Peter Kilmartin, D-Pawtucket, has taken the first big step in his campaign for attorney general. Kilmartin announced that he will......
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7:36 AM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Republican state Rep. John Loughlin has hired an aide to former Democratic Governor Bruce Sundlun - who served on a Democrats for Bush steering committee - as his congressional campaign......
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7:00 AM Mon, Feb 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Rep. Anastasia P. Williams offered an eloquent endorsement of Gordon Fox to the House chamber last week. By the end of the night, Fox was the speaker and Williams had been named chairwoman of the House Committee on Labor. A......
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8:40 PM Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau The state Republican Party is getting some much-needed help in paying its full-time staff of one. State Central Committee members learned at last week's meeting that the national Republican Party has agreed to......
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8:36 PM Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau Members of the Republican Party's State Central Committee succeeded last week in keeping alive their goal of closing the party's primaries, but if they are to be closed, it won't happen this year,......
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12:26 PM Fri, Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The contest to succeed Patrick J. Kennedy as Rhode Island's 1st District Congressman could include another famous name in Rhode Island politics. Nicholas Pell, 32-year-old grandson of the late U.S. Sen.......
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5:04 PM Thu, Feb 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in New York City, possibly with a heart issue, according to at least three news sources. ABC News, CNN and The New York Times reported the news on their Web sites a few......
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2:37 PM Thu, Feb 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Joe Trillo has made national news. Sort of. The outspoken Warwick Republican was among a handful of conservatives interviewed for a special report that aired Wednesday night on Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart.......
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12:44 PM Thu, Feb 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- He is the son of Providence Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio, younger brother of state Treasurer Frank Caprio and the soon-to-be-named chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. State Rep. David Caprio, D-Narragansett, has confirmed......
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2:55 PM Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The picture of who will lead in the House of Representatives should Rep. Gordon D. Fox be appointed House Speaker on Thursday continues to emerge. Fox has confirmed that should he be appointed, he will ask his......
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8:08 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- Counting his backers at more than 50, Rep. Gordon D. Fox emerged from a from a private gathering at the Asia Palace on North Main Street Tuesday night with a plan......
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6:07 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio will not be running for Rhode Island governor as anything else but a Democrat, he said in a Journal interview Tuesday afternoon. He was responding to a Journal reporter's questions about continued......
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2:23 PM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I - During his final year in office, Governor Carcieri has chosen state budget officer Rosemary Booth Gallogly as his new director of administration. The well-respected Gallogly will double as director of the state's Department of Revenue, as did......
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9:49 AM Tue, Feb 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin has named two key deputies to his Rhode Island staff -- longtime spokeswoman Joy Fox and state Rep. Ray Sullivan. Democrat Langevin announced Tuesday that Fox is to......
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10:32 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General Patrick Lynch may have been bailed out last week when cities and towns sued the governor for refusing to release more than $30 million in local aid. The night before Woonsocket filed......
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4:40 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE. R.I. -- While he is not pulling out of the race to succeed William J. Murphy as House Speaker, Rep. Gregory Schadone has acknowledged that he does not have the votes to win if the vote is called, as......
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2:05 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, RI.I. -- Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has released the official state election calendar for this campaign season. The 2010 calendar lists key dates for this year's races, including those for local office to those......
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6:20 PM Fri, Feb 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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3:48 PM Fri, Feb 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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3:47 PM Fri, Feb 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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12:00 PM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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11:28 AM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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10:02 AM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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5:39 PM Wed, Feb 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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2:41 PM Tue, Feb 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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1:07 PM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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12:55 PM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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12:30 PM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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12:26 PM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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7:15 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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7:05 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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7:00 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:30 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:02 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:00 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:00 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:00 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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6:00 AM Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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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......
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