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3:49 PM Fri, Apr 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - In 2009, Governor Carcieri had two pensions. He had one pension from Cookson America paying him somewhere between $200,001-and-$500,000, and a second and previously unmentioned one from the administrators of the pension fund for the defunct......
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3:42 PM Fri, Apr 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The four Democratic mayoral candidates, echoing the desires of Fox Point residents, say they support a public use for the former Shooters Waterfront Café and would rather not see the state go forward with a public sale......
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11:59 AM Fri, Apr 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce will host a "Meet the Candidates" forum featuring all the declared candidates for Rhode Island governor Wednesday at the Rhode Island Convention Center. The forum, which will begin at 9......
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5:43 PM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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Bulletin: The House and Senate have passed both bills. By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With their leaders still at odds over how to plug this year's $220-million budget hole, the House and Senate are poised......
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5:32 PM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A respected political tout sheet has upgraded the odds of a Democratic loss in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District -- but still makes the Republican candidate, state Rep. John Loughlin......
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5:23 PM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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LINCOLN, R.I. -- Lincoln businessman Anthony P. Gemma confirmed Thursday afternoon that he is "strongly considering running" for the Congressional seat to be vacated by Patrick J. Kennedy. "I'm in the process of talking to family, friends, and close colleagues,"......
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3:37 PM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Score one more for the "big tent" philosophy of state Republican Party Chairman Giovanni Cicione. The state GOP welcomed a new caucus Wednesday night: The Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian......
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3:23 PM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Jennifer Berlin is returning to her first love: global politics. Sen. Jack Reed's press deputy said Wednesday that she will become spokeswoman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee early next month. "I'm......
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9:46 AM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Washington Bureau Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon D. Fox of Providence has endorsed the city's mayor, David Cicilline, for Congress. Fox spokesman Larrry Berman confirmed Wednesday that Fox has endorsed fellow Democrat Cicilline, who faces former Democratic......
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6:02 PM Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Members of the Democratic State Committee will convene Friday night to select a new chairman of the Rhode Island Democratic Party. The post has been vacant since former chairman, William Lynch, resigned in February......
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4:54 PM Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
By Cynthia Needham Journal staff writer Governor Carcieri will head to Washington, D.C. Monday to participate in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "2010 Governors' Summit: Creating Jobs Through Free Enterprise." The bi-partisan event will host eight governors with the goal......
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6:27 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A key Senate committee has approved a bill aimed at giving cities and towns a reprieve on making their own budget decisions, while lawmakers are still debating how deep to......
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1:26 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio is running head to head with former U.S. Senator Lincoln D. Chafee in the 2010 governor's race, according to the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports. Caprio, a Democrat, and......
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1:01 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is booked as the featured guest at a $500 per person fundraiser in New York on May 7 for Rhode Island Congressional candidate John Loughlin. Loughlin, a Republican state representative......
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12:36 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Paul Edward Parker Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gerald M. Carbone, the former Journal reporter who filed a notice with the state Board of Elections and considered a primary challenge against incumbent state Sen. William A. Walaska, D-Warwick, has decided to pass -- at least......
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3:38 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Moderate Party founder Kenneth J. Block is not viewed as a favorite in the 2010 governor's race, but the 44-year-old software engineer and business owner is attracting some notable talent to his campaign. On Monday, Block announced......
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3:18 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- This Saturday, the state Republican Party will hold the first in a series of candidate training sessions aimed at building their tiny numbers at the State House. The GOP currently holds 10 of 113 Rhode Island......
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12:06 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - He's known as the "independent man," but for a time last week, it appeared that WPRO morning host John DePetro would be the featured speaker at a Rhode Island Republican Party......
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12:00 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau Governor Carcieri has taken his share of barbs from state lawmakers and labor leaders, but last week he was on the receiving end of unwanted attention from a new source: A Washington, D.C.-based group......
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11:56 AM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The number of legislators voluntarily paying a portion of the cost of their free health-care packages -- costing up to $18,061 annually -- has grown over the last week, along with......
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11:41 AM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Tom Sgouros, a candidate for state treasurer, is the latest Democrat to win the endorsement of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328, the second-largest union in Rhode Island. Confirmation......
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1:20 PM Fri, Apr 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Democratic mayoral candidate Angel Taveras announced this week a five-point environmental program he would implement if elected. The program calls for launching a citywide composting program, making municipal buildings more energy efficient, appointing a new administrative position......
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5:26 PM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
CUMBERLAND, R.I. -- The speculation over who is running for Rhode Island's First Congressional District Seat has quieted down in recent weeks, and now there is one less name to add to the list of potential candidates. Cumberland Mayor Daniel......
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10:57 AM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri's efforts to convince lawmakers to end the state's practice of providing annual increases of up to 3 percent in the pensions paid to public employees have once again drawn attention to his own pension. The......
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12:56 PM Wed, Apr 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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WARWICK, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin has been endorsed by two key unions in his bid for reelection to his 2nd District seat. Langevin, in a statement issued Wednesday, said he has been endorsed by the United Food and......
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5:29 PM Tue, Apr 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Philip R. McKendall, an Elmhurst Democrat who works for the City Council, announced Tuesday that he is running for the Ward 14 Council seat. The seat, which represents the Mount Pleasant, Elmhurst, and Wanskuck neighborhoods, is currently......
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2:59 PM Mon, Apr 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
So far, the public has heard from two Democrats, two Republicans, two independents and one moderate in the race to be Rhode Island's next governor. From that field, Governor Carcieri on Monday announced that he is endorsing John F. Robitaille......
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6:02 PM Fri, Apr 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican Governor Carcieri's former administration director Gary Sasse will not be going to work for House Democratic leaders as a $5,000 a month budget consultant, after all. News of the turnabout surfaced in House Speaker Gordon......
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10:36 AM Fri, Apr 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With Rhode Island's deficit-closing plan in limbo, and lawmakers on break, Governor Carcieri has once again headed to Florida. Carcieri spokeswoman Amy Kempe confirmed on Friday that the Republican governor......
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7:14 PM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - On the day after the Massachusetts House okayed two casinos and the placement of up to 750 slot machines at each of the state's four racetracks, Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon D. Fox said the action "definitely''......
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6:09 PM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Members of the House Finance Committee will hold hearings during next week's legislative recess on new ways to plug the hole left by the Senate's rejection on Wednesday of the House deficit-cutting package House Speaker Gordon D.......
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4:41 PM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch is calling for new restrictions on campaign fundraising by state investment and pension officials, including his Democratic rival in the race for governor, Treasurer Frank T. Caprio. A position paper......
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4:09 PM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State lawmakers need not have worried about running afoul of the ethics code by voting on a measure that would have required them to pay a 15 percent share of......
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2:36 PM Wed, Apr 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Amid fears that they might violate the state ethics code, state lawmakers decided they should not vote on a proposal that would require they each pay at least 15 percent......
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2:11 PM Wed, Apr 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
At least five of Rhode Island's gubernatorial candidates are expected in one place on May 4 for a candidate's forum that will focus on women's issues. Hosted by the Poverty Institute and the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, the forum......
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3:13 PM Tue, Apr 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Edward Fitzpatrick PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Sen. William A. Walaska has decided not to run for state treasurer this year. Walaska, a Warwick Democrat, had been considering a run for the job held by General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio,......
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12:54 PM Tue, Apr 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dozens of conservatives gathered in the State House rotunda late Tuesday morning to urge House Democrats to look harder at the public pension system and municipal employee health-care contributions to help address Rhode Island's budget woes. The......
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12:43 PM Tue, Apr 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Email
Taking further steps towards becoming an entrenched political player, seven members of the Rhode Island Tea Party movement have become registered State House lobbyists. We first noticed one of the tea partiers, talk radio regular Bruno "Buddy" Tassoni, wearing a......
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9:04 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille on Monday blasted the budget-reduction plan approved by the House Finance Committee on April 8, issuing a statement in which he called the proposal a "taxpayer betrayal" that will only "drive more businesses and taxpayers......
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4:06 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Cranston Mayor Steven Laffey will not be attending a Tea Party Tax Day rally scheduled for Thursday afternoon in front of the State House, according to Colleen Conley, founder and president of the Rhode Island Tea......
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2:56 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio is calling on the state's Economic Development Corporation to draw up new guidelines that would allow a sales tax exemption for Rhode Islanders paying for repairs or receiving......
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2:03 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Attorney General hopeful Peter F. Kilmartin has won the backing of a second major labor union. Teamsters Local 251 has officially endorsed Kilmartin, a state representative, over his Democratic opponent Stephen R. Archambault, according to an announcement......
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12:19 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When lawmakers gather at the State House Monday afternoon for a briefing on the $220-million deficit-closing plan they are being asked to approve Tuesday, they will be greeted with dueling demonstrations for and against......
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7:00 AM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, has appeared on some early lists of prospects whom President Obama may consider - or is being urged to consider - to replace......
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7:00 AM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While all eyes have been on the state budget in recent days and weeks, lawmakers intent on changing the state's campaign finance rules have been making progress. The full Senate is slated to vote......
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7:00 AM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Douglas Gablinske, D-Bristol, is hardly typical among his party members when it comes to his views on organized labor. His most famous -- or infamous -- comment on the subject may have been......
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6:37 PM Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Democratic mayoral candidates took aim on Friday at state Rep. Steven M. Costantino, who chairs the House Finance Committee and is running for mayor as a Democrat, for proposing a sate budget-repair plan that cuts more than $8......
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4:38 PM Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bryan Principe, a City Plan Commission member and outspoken West Broadway advocate, says he'll run for the Ward 13 City Council seat. Principe, in a news release, said he'll make the announcement on Monday at 4:30 p.m.......
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4:35 PM Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Democratic mayoral candidate Angel Taveras has hired Lauren Nocera, a Mount Pleasant resident who ran the successful reelection campaign of state Rep. Frank Ferri, D-District 22, in 2007, as campaign manager. Nocera, of 27 Maplehurst Ave., will......
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11:31 AM Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photo / Connie GroschHouse Finance Committee chairman Steven Costantino, seated at his desk, after wrapping up a supplementary budget briefing with his committee members Thursday at the State House. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The last-minute withdrawal from the General......
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4:08 PM Thu, Apr 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 328, has endorsed Democrat Bill Lynch's campaign for Congress in the 1st District. In a statement Thursday announcing the endorsement, Lynch said it "is a real boost for my campaign." Local 328,......
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12:33 PM Thu, Apr 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By STEVE PEOPLES Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Complications in budget negotiations between the R.I. House and Senate may postpone Thursday's scheduled release of the General Assembly's plan to balance a current-year budget hole of $220 million. Just......
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10:49 AM Thu, Apr 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey has once again told supporters within the conservative wing of the state Republican party that he does not intend to run for governor or anything else this year. His billing as......
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7:15 PM Wed, Apr 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --- Secretary of State candidate Leonidas Raptakis is faulting incumbent A. Ralph Mollis, for letting the private entity promoting Governor Carcieri's budget and pension-cutting initiatives in paid radio ads to skate by without filing lobbyist disclosure forms. Aiming......
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5:06 PM Tue, Apr 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Steven M. Costantino's mayoral campaign says it has raised $400,000 after the first quarter of 2010, placing the House Finance Committee chairman at a commanding fundraising advantage over his competitors early in the campaign season.......
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4:50 PM Tue, Apr 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor Carcieri is monitoring Rhode Island's flood cleanup efforts from afar. The governor has been in Florida since Saturday and celebrated Easter there with family members, including some of his grandchildren, said his spokeswoman, Amy Kempe. Kempe......
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5:30 PM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Talk radio and Facebook can only go so far. That's according to Rhode Island Tea Party President Colleen Conley, explaining why her grassroots organization has launched a paid advertising campaign to help promote next week's "Second Annual......
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5:06 PM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As Rhode Island's flood victims look to the federal government for help, two state lawmakers are urging the General Assembly to create a tax credit to help offset the cost of water damage. Woonsocket......
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4:44 PM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline has alerted supporters to a windfall for his campaign for Congress. In part by converting contributions to his mayoral campaign war chest, the Democrat says he ``has......
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12:05 PM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By STEVE PEOPLES Journal State House Bureau The General Assembly has formally scheduled a hearing for later in the week to unveil its specific plan to balance state government's current $220-million budget shortfall. The details may have profound implications for......
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6:30 AM Mon, Apr 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- The state' part-time, $14,018-a-year legislators have reached the halfway mark in the 2010 legislative session. What have they done so far? They spent a total of $7,488,011 between Jan. 1 and......
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6:25 PM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Campaign aides to Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline have been busy writing out refund checks to long-time supporters, and then asking them to endorse those refund checks over to his six-week-old congressional campaign. With hundreds of thousands......
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5:51 PM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri's backers have raised more than $178,000 from undisclosed donors to finance his radio advertising campaigns this year and last for his Republican tax, budget and pension-cutting proposals. The state's campaign finance law would have banned......
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11:11 AM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal Staff Writer A second Republican has entered the race for governor. Victor G. Moffitt, a tax accountant and former state representative from Coventry, announced Thursday that he is running as a "common-sense fiscal conservative" who plans......
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