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9:00 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Seven candidates filed papers in City Hall this week to succeed Mayor David N. Cicilline, who is not seeking reelection in order to run for Congress in the First District. Five of the candidates previously announced their......
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8:00 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors, D-Cumberland, told several fellow senators this afternoon that he has decided not to run for reelection. His surprise decision came to light after he filed......
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5:56 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- There's a bumper crop of candidates in the city this election season with at least one opponent for all but two of the nine City Council members seeking reelection in the......
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5:52 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- It looks like it will be a three-way race for mayor, with six-term Republican Scott Avedisian facing challenges from two relative newcomers. With the deadline for declaring candidacy coming at the......
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4:22 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- How many Rhode Island lawmakers will escape challengers in this year of palpable voter frustration? That was the question as Tea Party activists, Republicans, Moderate Party candidates, independents and a slew of Democratic primary challengers raced......
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3:14 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Carrie S. Marsh, an Elmwood resident who had considered running for mayor as an independent, says she will instead run for City Council in Ward 11 as an independent. She joins a crowded field to succeed City......
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1:34 PM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Moderate Party's candidate for lieutenant governor has decided to switch gears and run for a state Senate seat instead. With the 4 p.m. candidate-filing deadline approaching, East Greenwich School Committee chairwoman Jean Ann Guliano announced that......
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11:39 AM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Newport resident says he plans to run for state Senate against Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport. Geoff Cook, a 49-year-old Republican, announced his candidacy Wednesday morning on the Helen Glover Show on WHJJ radio.......
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10:50 AM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island Republicans will hold their statewide convention to pick a slate of endorsed candidates for high-profile races such as governor and U.S. Congress. The convention being held Wednesday in Cranston features national GOP Chairman Michael......
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9:13 AM Wed, Jun 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Keven A. McKenna announced Tuesday that he is seeking election as state attorney general. The former legislator, municipal court judge and assistant attorney general reported that he filed declaration papers for the post. "I have the most......
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5:12 PM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Providence Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline has added a military policy plank to his congressional candidacy, calling for U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan to begin sooner than President Obama's target......
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2:50 PM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With no vote required, the $14,018 salaries paid Rhode Island's part-time lawmakers are going up by 3.4 percent next week. Starting on July 4, the average lawmaker will make $14,495.25 annually, according to a letter House Speaker......
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2:48 PM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Five candidates who had previously announced their intentions to run for mayor this year officially filed their candidacy declarations in City Hall this week. Democrats Steven Costantino, a state representative; Angel Taveras, a former Housing Court judge;......
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12:54 PM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city Democratic Committee will endorse its candidate for mayor Wednesday night, the last day for candidates to declare for this year's election. Democratic Committee Chairwoman Joan Badway said the committee will meet at 6 p.m. at......
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8:27 AM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As promised, the Secretary of State's Web site on Monday evening had a new link that allows viewers to click on state, regional and local races to see who has filed to run for federal, state and......
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1:59 AM Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Republican Party's Nominating Committee endorsed candidates in several races Sunday, including those for governor and the 2nd District Congressional District seat, which appear to be headed toward primaries. In the governor's race, John Robitaille, former......
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6:18 PM Mon, Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- City Councilman John J. Lombardi, a Federal Hill Democrat who is running for mayor, is complaining that Police Chief Dean Esserman invited another candidate for mayor to speak to police officers at department meetings recently. But Esserman......
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5:35 PM Mon, Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the first day to officially declare candidacy for public office, two residents submitted to the city Board of Election papers to run for mayor, Councilman John J. Lombardi, a Democrat, and Dr. Daniel Harrop, a Republican.......
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1:34 PM Mon, Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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PolitiFact Rhode Island, which launched last Thursday, has been updated with new items researched and reported by Providence Journal staff. The Web site designed to examine political claims has now posted eight items, using the Truth-O-Meter, giving rankings of False,......
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5:27 PM Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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A $3,200 donation from the Rhode Island League of Women Voters will benefit voters in eight West Bay communities this October, helping to pay for no less than 12 candidate debates. The debates will be open to candidates for the......
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3:56 PM Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The president of the watchdog group Operation Clean Government has resigned effective today to run for the same Rhode Island House seat he sought in 2008. Lawrence M. Valencia, on the job for about a year, will......
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1:16 PM Fri, Jun 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau As the three-day candidate-filing period unfolds next week, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis has promised to post daily recaps of who has filed to run for Rhode island's state, federal and local......
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9:29 AM Thu, Jun 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- A Pawtucket School Committee member accused of stalking a former boyfriend has decided not to run for re-election. Amy Breault-Zolt told The Times of Pawtucket that she made the decision after consulting with her four sons......
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9:21 AM Thu, Jun 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Launching his campaign at the building where the General Assembly declared Rhode Island's independence from the English crown, State Sen. Leonidas P. Raptakis vowed Wednesday to focus on improving public access to the workings of the state......
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11:32 AM Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In addition to his closely-watched veto of this year's casino bill, Governor Carcieri has also vetoed bills to shut off access to new home-care licenses, require the recording of criminals'......
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11:04 AM Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The proposed state poem has been given a poetic burial. With a state tree, a state flower, a state bird and a state song, Sen. Leo Blais, R-Coventry, thought Rhode......
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6:14 PM Tue, Jun 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Christopher H. Little, the Moderate Party candidate for attorney general, on Tuesday ripped the governor's office for allowing a $1.5-million legal fee to a lawyer who was a past campaign contributor......
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3:53 PM Tue, Jun 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By JOHN HILL Journal staff writer PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- The union representing nurses and other health-care workers in the state announced it has endorsed state Rep. Peter F. Kilmartin, D-Pawtucket, for attorney general. Linda McDonald, a registered nurse and president......
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3:45 PM Tue, Jun 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
Second Congressional District candidate William J. Clegg announced Monday that he has picked up an endorsement from Combat Veterans for Congress, a political action committee that is supporting fiscally conservative congressional candidates in more than two dozen races across the......
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4:27 PM Mon, Jun 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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Politico is reporting that the former Republican National Committee chief of staff, Ken McKay, received more than $100,000 after he resigned earlier in the spring. McKay, who previously worked for Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri, left the RNC in April......
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12:51 PM Mon, Jun 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Email
A soon-to-be-released book by the chairman of Rhode Island Young Republicans appears to have at least one fan at the State House. Governor Carcieri, provided with an unpublished manuscript for The Rhode Island Republican -- An Indictment of the Rhode......
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10:40 AM Mon, Jun 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Late last week, a top aide said state treasurer Frank Caprio did not plan to take part in a forum the Rhode Island Latino Civic Fund is hosting this Wednesday for candidates for governor. That would......
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10:33 AM Mon, Jun 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Moderate Party of Rhode Island has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Providence challenging the constitutionality of the state program that collects and disburses taxpayer dollars to political parties. Read a letter from Moderate......
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10:58 AM Sun, Jun 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau It remains to be seen how much relevance a major party endorsement has in a year of voter unrest, when an Independent leads most polls on the race for governor and the election......
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10:53 AM Sun, Jun 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randy Edgar Journal State House Bureau Anthony P. Gemma, the latest Democrat to enter the race for Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District seat, has donated to a several high-profile Democrats over the years, including Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and......
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10:46 AM Sun, Jun 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau GOP loyalist Robert G. Tingle, a "pit boss" at Foxwoods Resort & Casino, is perhaps best known for a handful of unsuccessful and poorly-funded congressional bids. He filed candidacy papers to run for......
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4:55 PM Fri, Jun 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It remains to be seen how much relevance a major party endorsement has in a year of voter unrest, when an Independent leads most polls on the race for governor and the election may well come......
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4:25 PM Fri, Jun 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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As he emerged this week as the new face in the race for Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District seat, Anthony P. Gemma was often linked to Gem Plumbing & Heating Company, the family business where he rose to position of......
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1:55 PM Thu, Jun 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The next date in the debate season is next Wednesday when the candidates for governor are invited to take part in a debate co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Latino Civic Fund. "The purpose of this debate......
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12:50 PM Thu, Jun 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With more money in his campaign fund than any other candidate for governor, state Treasurer Frank Caprio has left it unclear whether he plans to accept $1.058 million in matching funds, and the spending limits that would......
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6:21 PM Tue, Jun 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Legislative leaders are not reacting particularly warmly to the latest proposal from the Patrick C. Lynch campaign for governor. Earlier this week, the state's term-limited attorney general proposed "downsizing'' the Rhode Island legislature by eliminating the Senate.......
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12:35 PM Tue, Jun 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For weeks, his presence has been felt, even if the man himself has been publicly silent. But on Tuesday, 40-year-old Lincoln resident Anthony Gemma made it official: He is running......
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5:47 PM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Saying that state government is "completely dysfunctional" in part because state lawmakers "just cannot get it right," gubernatorial candidate Patrick C. Lynch on Monday pitched a three-part solution that would revamp the budget cycle, give the governor......
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3:07 PM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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Looking to establish new guidelines for cities and towns that want bankruptcy protection, Governor Carcieri signed into law this past weekend a bill that gives the state more power to intervene before municipalities file for receivership. Before seeking bankruptcy protection,......
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2:06 PM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Peter F. Kilmartin, D-Pawtucket, says that if he is elected Rhode Island attorney general, one of his top priorities will be to help protect the elderly from Internet scams. In a news release, Kilmartin, a former......
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9:39 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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Former state Rep. Victor G. Moffitt, Republican candidate for R.I. governor, will chat live with projo.com readers Monday from noon to 1 p.m. Moffitt, a tax accountant who served in the General Assembly from 2002 to 2008, describes himself as......
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7:16 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The conservative wing of the state GOP bestowed its endorsements over the weekend, and Governor Carcieri's former communication director John Robitaille emerged the group's favorite in the two-man race for......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- David Cunha assumed that the State House was a safe place to work, but the 16-year-old Senate page learned earlier this month that assumptions can be wrong. As the Senate debated the state budget,......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It was widely known that several state representatives would be stepping down this year. The list included Steven M. Costantino, Peter F. Kilmartin, John J. Loughlin II, Edwin R. Pacheco, David A. Segal, Raymond......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jun 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican candidate for governor John Robitaille called on his former boss to veto the new state budget because it does not cut deeply enough into public employee pensions and benefits, and leaves a potential......
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7:38 PM Sat, Jun 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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House Finance Committee Chairman Steven M. Costanino, who hopes to succeed David N. Cicilline as mayor of Providence, has hired Jake Bissaillon, a Providence College graduate, to be his campaign manager. Bissaillon, who has an MBA from Providence College,......
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5:47 PM Thu, Jun 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While a budget veto by Republican Governor Carcieri seems increasingly unlikely, state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione wants voters to see the new $7.8 billion state spending plan the way he......
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12:47 PM Thu, Jun 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Journal Staff Writer JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Karin Gorman, director and vice president of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement (RIILE), has announced her candidacy for state representative of District 43, Johnston, as an independent candidate. Gorman,......
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12:49 PM Wed, Jun 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By PHIL MARCELO Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State General Treasurer Frank Caprio, a Democratic candidate for governor, unveiled a job creation plan focused on small business at a news conference at the Promet shipyard on Allens Avenue Wednesday......
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7:47 AM Wed, Jun 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Even if it clears the House, the eleventh-hour drive for a statewide vote on turning the Twin River and Newport Grand slot parlors into full-scale casinos may not make it through......
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5:18 PM Mon, Jun 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline officially kicked off his campaign for Congress Monday with speeches at a Woonsocket bridge in need of repairs, a Smithfield factory where he touted job training and an......
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3:05 PM Mon, Jun 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox will face a Republican challenger in the November election. Erich Sturn, 24, a bank employee, says he'll run for Fox's District 4 seat. He is hosting a campaign kick-off event at Zooma......
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10:57 PM Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Treasurer Frank Caprio's deputy chief of staff Xaykham Khamsyvoravong left his $104,288 a year job on Caprio's State House staff on May 7 to manage Caprio's campaign for governor. Xay, 25, describes himself as a native......
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10:54 PM Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Victor G. Moffitt, one of two Republicans running for governor this year, has chosen Cathy Corelli Chianese, president and marketing director of Providence-based CC Media Partners, to be his campaign manager. In a statement last week, the......
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10:45 PM Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawmakers put partisan politics aside just long enough last week to give Governor Carcieri's chief of staff Andrew Hodgkin the permission he was seeking to preside over his son's wedding this summer. The bill headed to Carcieri's......
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10:40 PM Sun, Jun 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's commonly known to regular observers of the Rhode Island House and Senate that the more colorful and testy debate tends to take place in the House. The Senate, by contrast, is usually rather staid. That pattern......
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2:27 PM Thu, Jun 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With lawmakers slated to convene at the State House at 2 p.m. Thursday to begin voting on the big budget bill of the year, city and town leaders stepped up their effort to convince the House to......
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11:24 AM Thu, Jun 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With the 2010 legislative session barreling towards a possible end next Wednesday, House leaders have scheduled the first in a series of votes for Tuesday on a bill to allow......
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6:14 PM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Advocates for the sealing of criminal records won a round at the State House on Wednesday. Despite strenuous objections over the years from the state police and the governor, the House of Representatives voted......
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5:56 PM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One after another, Rhode Island's state lawmakers rose from their seats on the House floor to defend their right to speak without having an "unelected'' Ethics Commission peering over their shoulders. Then, the House......
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11:56 AM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In a sure sign that the end of the 2010 legislative session is near, the House officially threw its rules out the window on Tuesday. They call it "suspending the rules,'' which include the required posting......
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11:46 AM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I -- U.S. Rep. James Langevin formally announced this morning that he is running for relection to Congress for a sixth term. Langevin made the announcement at the Trades Training Center of Rhode Island at......
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4:44 PM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Anthony Gemma will officially jump into the Democratic primary race for Rhode Island's open 1st Congressional District seat on June 15. "Our political future is built on the conviction that we, the people, have the power......
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12:45 PM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bristol businessman Todd Giroux formally announced his candidacy for governor Tuesday in a news conference in the State House rotunda. Giroux, who described himself as a "proud gay candidate for governor" at a March same-sex marriage rally......
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8:25 AM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- Mayor Scott Avedisian is scheduled to make stops throughout the city Tuesday as he announces that he will seek a seventh term. In years past, Avedisian has made formal announcements before......
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