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1:30 PM Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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Michael Stenhouse, a former Red Sox player who served as chairman of the Rhode Island Clean Slate campaign during the 2010 election, has been named executive director of the Ocean State Policy Research Institute. Stenhouse becomes the first executive director......
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12:45 PM Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - President Obama is proposing to freeze the pay of federal employees for the next two years, but there is no such effort to freeze the wages of the thousands of state workers who are slated to get......
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11:29 AM Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - President Obama is proposing to freeze the pay of federal employees for the next two years, but there is no such effort to freeze the wages of the thousands of......
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10:17 AM Tue, Nov 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee has chosen Paul McGreevy, a former lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy and business consultant, to be the new director of the Department of Business Regulation. He replaces Michael Marques as the head of......
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2:33 PM Mon, Nov 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Linda Borg Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee announced Monday that he will form a joint health care task force chaired by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts. At a press conference in Chafee's transition office, Roberts said......
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5:10 PM Wed, Nov 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Aiming to gather information as he prepares his first budget, Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is planning to hold a "budget conference" with state lawmakers and other interested parties. The conference......
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5:02 PM Wed, Nov 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As expected, Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has decided to keep two top-tier administrators in the Carcieri administration to run the state police and state prison system. A spokesman confirmed Wednesday......
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10:00 AM Wed, Nov 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has started to piece together his State House team. For his chief of staff, he has chosen Patrick Rogers, the lawyer who chaired his campaign, came up with his winning "Trust Chafee'' campaign......
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2:25 PM Tue, Nov 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gov.-elect Lincoln D. Chafee, who has pledged to rescind Gov. Carcieri's executive order on illegal immigration, says he expects to be a vocal advocate for national immigration reform through the National Governors Association when he takes office......
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12:10 PM Tue, Nov 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Same-sex marriage opponents mounted a post-election effort to try to change Gov.-elect Lincoln D. Chafee's mind. In his role as director of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage, Christopher Planet tried to......
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2:41 PM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg, Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE - Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is keeping at least one high-level member of the Carcieri administration - Rosemary Booth Gallogly - in her current role as the $156,876 a year director of......
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2:08 PM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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WARWICK, R.I. -- Newly elected officials will get a chance to learn about conducting open meetings and citizens' rights to public records when the state attorney general's office hosts a summit on open government in January. And for the first......
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11:37 AM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Email
Christine C. Ferguson, former Gov. Lincoln Almond's director of Health and Human Services and the chief architect of the Rhode Island's public health insurance program, RIte Care, has been advising Gov.-elect Lincoln Chafee on his transition into office, but says......
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7:00 AM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau It's no secret that Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is trying to get a handle on the state budget and the projected $300 million shortfall that numbers crunchers are projecting for the coming fiscal......
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7:00 AM Mon, Nov 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham Journal Staff Writer \ The Rhode Island Republican Assembly, a group that calls itself a conservative arm of the Republican Party, has endorsed Erik Wallin to chair the state GOP next March over current chairman Giovanni Cicione.......
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12:05 PM Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Outgoing state Rep. Steven M. Costantino, who chaired his final meeting of the House Finance Committee on Thursday, confirmed Thursday that he's met with Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee's transition team and Providence Mayor-elect Angel Taveras, whom he lost......
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11:28 AM Fri, Nov 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Former U.S. Attorney Robert C. Corrente has stepped down as chairman of the Rhode Island Moderate Party. Corrente said Friday that he took on the role of chairman after party founder Kenneth J. Block decided to run for governor but......
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5:59 PM Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Republicans met for the first time since the November election on Wednesday evening at the State House, re-electing Minority Leader Robert A. Watson and elevating relative newcomer Brian C. Newberry to minority whip, according to Watson.......
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8:23 AM Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse isn't talking. But backstage at the Capitol, the Rhode Island Democrat's name has come up this week in the biennial jockeying for advantage as the Senate sets its......
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3:47 PM Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio, who lost his bid for governor this month, chaired his final meeting of the state Investment Commission on Wednesday morning, saying that he leaves the office -- and the state's investment......
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5:25 PM Tue, Nov 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- Two national groups on opposing sides of the abortion debate have weighed in on Gov.-elect Lincoln D. Chafee's nomination of former Lt. Gov. Richard Licht as his incoming director of administration. The Rhode Island State Right to......
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12:56 PM Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Edward Fitzpatrick Journal Political Columnist Former Democratic Lt. Gov. Charles J. Fogarty says two Rhode Islanders who used to work for him and for Sen. Reed played key roles in races that helped Democrats hold onto the U.S. Senate......
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12:53 PM Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau The state's anti-abortion lobby is not happy that Governor-elect Chafee put Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, the former director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island and an outspoken advocate of a woman's "reproductive rights," on......
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12:48 PM Mon, Nov 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Quick, now. What name comes to mind when you see the words: "A man you can trust." If you said "Chafee," you are right. That was the campaign slogan for the late John......
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12:57 PM Fri, Nov 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Considering the gains Republicans made in the State House, one would think state Rep. Robert A. Watson would be out celebrating this month. But the House Minority Leader has been keeping a low profile these last few weeks after being......
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8:30 PM Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An "off-hand'' remark to a Washington-based blog has elevated state Republican chairman Giovanni Cicione to the ranks of potential 2012 candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. In an interview......
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1:58 PM Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A week into his new role as Rhode Island's governor-elect, Lincoln D. Chafee is headed to Geneva Tuesday night for his last meeting as a member of the Foundation for......
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4:55 PM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee isn't saying no to the pay raise in the offing for all of the state's general officers in January, but he doesn't intend to keep it for himself. Spokesman Michael Trainor said Chafee......
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2:17 PM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has put two of his trusted political advisers at the helm of his transition team: lawyer Patrick Rogers, who once worked in his father's U.S. Senate office, and Stephen R. Hourahan, a top......
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12:32 PM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senate Republicans held an unannounced caucus last Friday, in which they reelected Sen. Dennis Algiere, R-Westerly as minority leader, and Sen. David Bates, R-Barrington, as the minority whip. They also......
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12:12 PM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the election behind her, Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed has called a Democratic caucus for Wednesday at the State House to pave the way for her own return to the rostrum in January and --......
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7:45 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar No, the Moderate Party didn't win any contests in last Tuesday's election. The party's candidates lost in two statewide races -- governor and attorney general -- as well as three General Assembly races and three local races.......
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7:30 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Christopher Young, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Providence mayor, and his fiancée Kara Russo, who lost the Republican primaries for lieutenant governor and the 1st Congressional district seat, want to end to electronic voting in Rhode Island.......
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7:15 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar On the subject of transitions, it seems that while most people were still looking forward to Election Day, at least one member of Lincoln Chafee's campaign was making assumptions about who would win the race for governor.......
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7:00 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Every changing of the guard at the Rhode Island State House comes at a cost. This year is no exception, with the state's rental of "transition'' office space for Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee, Treasurer-elect Gina Raimondo and......
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6:45 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House bureau As the winner of what came down to a four-man race for R.I. governor, Lincoln D. Chafee appears to have won the state's top office with the lowest percentage of votes on record.......
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6:30 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Not even on the job yet, and they are getting a raise. Come January, the salaries paid the five top state officers - including Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee - are going up by 9.67 percent. The salaries......
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2:53 PM Fri, Nov 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By RANDAL EDGAR Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Following meetings with House Speaker Gordon D. Fox and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed, Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee expressed optimism Friday that he will have a good working relationship......
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4:58 PM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- President Obama called his friend and former U.S. Senate colleague Lincoln D. Chafee on Wednesday to congratulate him on his winning bid for governor. Chafee campaign manager Michael Trainor said the president called around 4:15 p.m. "to......
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2:13 PM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan WASHINGTON -- A subtler, friendlier competition will soon begin for Representative-elect David N. Cicilline, one of only nine newly-elected Democrats who will enter the 112th Congress as freshmen. (West Virginia State Sen. Mike Oliverio would become......
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2:09 PM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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Dominican American residents made strides in Rhode Island politics Tuesday night with three of them re-elected to office and four elected to serve the public for the first time. The Dominican American National Roundtable and its National Dominican American Council......
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7:46 PM Tue, Nov 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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Projo.com is covering Election Day in Rhode Island live via its 7to7 newsblog, in photos and in video. We're keeping tabs on what's happening at the polls during the day. After 9 p.m., we'll post quick updates of key races,......
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3:33 PM Mon, Nov 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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12:05 PM Mon, Nov 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Getting ready to cast your vote Tuesday in Rhode Island? Projo.com has lots of resources to help you get to the polls and to make an informed decision. - Check out locations and polling hours (while they all close at......
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