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1:37 PM Fri, Dec 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Alisha Pina Journal Staff Writer Providence, R.I. -- Tax Assessor John J. Gelati will not be part of incoming Mayor Angel Taveras' administration. Spokeswoman Arianne Lynch confirmed the mayor-elect "has decided to go in a different direction" with the......
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1:09 PM Fri, Dec 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is headed to the State House on Tuesday with an initial roster of 25 staffers which, as his spokesman notes, is 20 fewer than currently budgeted. With a $1.944 million......
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5:08 PM Thu, Dec 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photos / Steve Szydlowski Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle waves at a farewell celebration for him Thursday at City Hall. Doyle, who is the city's longest-running mayor, having served six terms, decided not to seek reelection this......
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4:23 PM Thu, Dec 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee released more details Thursday about the inauguration of statewide office holders on Tuesday, Jan. 4, including the organizations that are footing the bill for the $55,000......
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1:05 PM Thu, Dec 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Since we launched PolitiFact Rhode Island June 25, we've powered up the Truth-O-Meter 74 times, fact-checking statements from politicians, party bosses, bloggers, talk radio hosts, interest groups and anonymous chain e-mailers. As we close 2010, after six......
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12:42 PM Thu, Dec 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By ALISHA PINA Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Well-known attorney Matthew Jerzyk will serve as Mayor-elect Angel Taveras' director of government relations and senior counsel to the mayor. Taveras also announced Thursday that Gonzalo Cuervo, a staff member......
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12:05 PM Thu, Dec 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The deadline came and went on Tuesday with only one company bidding for a contract to help state lawmakers with the once-a-decade redrawing of the boundaries that define Rhode Island's legislative and Congressional districts. The lone bid......
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11:04 PM Wed, Dec 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI -- The clash among members of the North Kingstown Democratic Town Committee spilled into the open Wednesday night with the announcement by Malvoid Benson that she is quitting the committee. Benson became the first black woman to......
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6:40 PM Tue, Dec 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Michael Trainor is making the leap from the Chafee-for-Governor campaign to the State House as communications director and press secretary for Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee. After briefly weighing the possibility of returning to the private sector, and......
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11:15 AM Tue, Dec 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is keeping Craig S. Stenning as the head of the department that runs the state's hospital and group home network, a role he has had in......
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10:51 AM Tue, Dec 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The 2011-12 General Assembly session will open at 4 p.m. on Tuesday with Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis swearing in the 38 state senators, and 75 members of the......
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12:01 AM Mon, Dec 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau Outgoing state Rep. John J. Loughlin II, who lost his bid for Congress this year, says he's interested in a post as head of the new state Department of Veterans Affairs in Governor-elect......
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12:01 AM Mon, Dec 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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Legislative leaders left the private cocktail party that the state's governor-elect recently hosted for them at his Warwick home with a recipe "from the kitchen of Lincoln Chafee.'' By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Attached to an oversized candy......
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12:01 AM Mon, Dec 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Republican Donald L. Carcieri has no intention of leaving the political stage when he leaves the governor's office next week. While not yet ready to say if he will run for the U.S.......
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12:47 PM Sun, Dec 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randy Edgar Journal State House Bureau Moderate Party founder Ken Block finished a distant fourth in the race for governor, but his ideas for saving money by targeting welfare fraud left House Speaker Gordon Fox wondering if he might......
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2:21 PM Thu, Dec 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Attorney General-elect Peter Kilmartin today named Mike Morrissey, former vice president of government relations for FairPoint Communications and AT&T, as his chief of staff. "Mike brings a diverse background in the legal, government affairs and communications realms,"......
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1:10 PM Thu, Dec 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Buddy Cianci's long talked-about memoir is set to be released in March by Thomas Dunne Books (a division of St. Martin's Press), but already folks nationally and locally are weighing in. The book -- titled "Politics and Pasta" -- promises......
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6:05 PM Wed, Dec 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors is joining Advocacy Solutions, which describes itself as a firm that "integrate(s) traditional lobbying, grassroots advocacy, pr and marketing, and community affairs." Connors, a Cumberland Democrat first elected as a Providence......
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3:37 PM Wed, Dec 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gina M. Raimondo, the state general treasurer-elect, has named a staffer from U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin's office to be her chief spokeswoman. Joy Fox, who had served as the spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department before......
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1:29 PM Wed, Dec 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Incoming Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin has selected Amy Kempe, spokeswoman for Governor Carcieri, as his department's public information officer. Kilmartin announced his pick Wednesday. "Amy brings a tremendous amount of experience, in both the private and......
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11:52 AM Wed, Dec 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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State Senator-elect Dawson Hodgson, a North Kingstown Republican, this week has been cleared by the state Ethics Commission to simultaneously serve as a senator and member of the North Kingstown Harbor Management Commission. The Ethics Commission ruled that the duties......
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4:26 PM Tue, Dec 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has chosen to keep Republican Governor Carcieri's deputy chief of staff Jamia R. McDonald in that role when he takes the helm in early January. Before her appointment as deputy chief of staff......
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3:33 PM Tue, Dec 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By MARIA ARMENTAL Journal staff writer CRANSTON, R.I. -- Democratic Councilman Anthony J. Lupino says he has secured enough votes to become the next City Council president when the nine-member body reconvenes in January. Lupino, who made the announcement Monday......
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10:31 AM Tue, Dec 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Ethics Commission ruled on Tuesday that outgoing state Rep. Steven M. Costantino, who lost his bid for mayor this year, is eligible to serve as head of the......
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6:34 PM Mon, Dec 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- More than a month removed from the November election, Mayor-elect Angel Taveras' campaign manager, Lauren Nocera, says she has landed back at the Thundermist Health Center, where she worked years before leading Taveras' winning mayoral campaign. A......
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4:35 PM Mon, Dec 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence, R.I. - Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has chosen Brian M. Daniels, who served for more than six years as the legislative director in U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin's Washington office, as his own policy director. In response to a Journal......
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12:33 PM Mon, Dec 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fresh off of helping Mayor David N. Cicilline win a seat in Congress, Leo J. Perotta is back in City Hall as the mayor's senior advisor this month, according to the mayor's communications director Karen Watts. Perotta......
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12:43 PM Thu, Dec 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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State Rep. Joseph A. Trillo, of Warwick, was appointed this month to help plan the Republican National Committee's 2012 convention in Tampa Bay next August. He's one of about 28 members selected so far by RNC Chairman Michael Steele for......
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3:26 PM Tue, Dec 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By ANDY SMITH Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee announced Tuesday that he is reappointing Michael P. Lewis as director of the state Department of Transportation. Lewis was named director of DOT by Governor Carcieri in......
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2:55 PM Tue, Dec 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee, through a spokesman, expressed his alarm at the troubles at Central Falls High School on Tuesday, calling it a "severely deteriorating labor management situation." He declined to say what he would do to......
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4:42 PM Mon, Dec 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep.-elect David Cicilline is drawing from his City Hall staff for his Rhode Island-based district office, naming city Director of Operations Alix Ogden as district director and city Parking Administrator Ernest Carlucci as deputy director. He also......
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1:49 PM Mon, Dec 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- This week promises to bring a renewed focus on the state budget, which is projecting a small surplus this year, but will have a deficit approaching $295 million in the fiscal year that starts July 1 because......
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4:51 PM Sun, Dec 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The Rhode Island Tea Party, which started in 2009, launched this month a redesigned website -- still located at www.riteaparty.com -- that features a clean look and better social networking functions. Lianne Russell, a Coventry resident and......
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4:48 PM Sun, Dec 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- It's no secret that Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee is trying to smooth over relations between the executive and legislative branches of state government. He was, after all, the candidate who refused to grade the General Assembly during......
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4:44 PM Sun, Dec 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Who's in line for chairmanship of the state Republican Party now that Giovanni Cicione has said he will step aside? One prominent name emerged late last week: former Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Kenneth K. McKay......
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4:36 PM Sun, Dec 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- In the State House, two types of portraits prevail: former governors and house speakers. The newest addition in this pantheon is former House Speaker William J. Murphy, who returned to Smith Hill on Friday for the unveiling......
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2:21 PM Thu, Dec 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal video / John Friedah Representative-elect Teresa Tanzi, D-District 34, Narragansett & South Kingstown, joins her 28 fellow newly elected legislators in an all-day orientation session on Wednesday, Dec. 8, at the Rhode Island State House. Read the......
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1:57 PM Thu, Dec 09, 2010 | Permalink |
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Don't count Patrick C. Lynch out. The outgoing state attorney general, who weighed a run for governor this year, has more than $415,000 in his campaign account -- more than anyone at this point in the state, he says --......
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5:25 PM Wed, Dec 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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Providence Journal photos / Connie Grosch Rhode Island's newly elected legislators were introduced to some of the inner workings of the State House Wednesday, during a freshman orientation day. Waiting to speak to the group, above, are current General......
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3:14 PM Wed, Dec 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Ethics Commission will consider on Dec. 21 whether state law bars outgoing House Finance Committee Chairman Steven M. Costantino from taking a post as secretary of the Office of Health & Human Services in Governor-elect......
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12:52 PM Tue, Dec 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Alisha Pina Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor-elect Angel Taveras has selected Melissa Withers as the director of communications for his incoming administration. Withers, of Providence, currently serves as executive director of the Business Innovation Factory, an organization......
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11:17 AM Tue, Dec 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- His name is Patrick Sweeney. He's 30 years old, he's a lawyer and he's a member of Rhode Island Young Republicans. His immediate goal? He wants to be the next chairman of the state Republican Party. "It's......
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12:13 PM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former adviser to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, of Maine, has been named Brown University's director of government relations and community affairs. Amy B. Carroll, a staff adviser to the Republican senator since 2007, joined the university......
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12:08 PM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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WARWICK, R.I. -- Operation Clean Government has named a new president and five new board members. Former executive director of the American Lung Association of Rhode Island Margaret Kane will take over as president of the a 17-year-old non-partisan, open-government......
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11:20 AM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee's decision to nominate Catherine Taylor to replace current state Department of Elderly Affairs Director Corinne Calise Russo was met with some protests. Ocean Tides Senior Games Chairwoman Nancy Dobie said her organization is "very displeased" with the......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau Kate Brock, who played a key role in organized labor's effort to elect former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to governor, has been named the new executive director of Ocean State Action, a......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal Staff Writer It's barely been a month since Republican John F. Robitaille finished just two points behind independent Lincoln D. Chafee in the race for governor, but it's not too soon for Robitaille to be mulling......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Governor-elect Chafee has required the paid -- and unpaid -- members of his transition team to sign an ethics pledge. Written by two of his transition team advisors, who happen be retired District......
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2:42 PM Fri, Dec 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee said Friday that Robert A. Walsh Jr., the executive director of the National Education Association of Rhode Island, will remain on his transition team despite calls for Walsh's removal in the wake a NEARI official's being......
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7:30 AM Fri, Dec 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One of the two lawyers that Governor-elect Chafee has chosen to lead his legal office is not yet qualified to argue a case before any Rhode Island court. Responding to a Journal inquiry, Chafee spokesman Michael......
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4:49 PM Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor David N. Cicilline, elected last month to the state's 1st Congressional District seat, announced a 10-member transition team Thursday that includes a mix of former state lawmakers, local officials, lawyers, educators and community activists. According to......
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3:54 PM Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon Fox has embarked on a wave of pre-session firings that appear aimed at State House staffers who owe their jobs to his predecessors, his political enemies, or those who crossed swords with his second-in-command......
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12:05 PM Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- More than 200 friends, family and associates are expected to join in the Capitol Thursday night to honor outgoing U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy for his work to fight mental illness......
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9:30 AM Thu, Dec 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island Independent Gov.-elect Lincoln Chafee has flown to Washington to join other newly elected state chief executives for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Chafee's spokesman Mike Trainor says the one-time Republican who left the......
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5:30 PM Wed, Dec 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has offered a major spot in his administration to House Finance Chairman Steven M. Costantino, but the offer hinges on whether the state Ethics Commission clears the Providence Democrat to make the leap......
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3:40 PM Wed, Dec 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The 29 newly elected members of the General Assembly will gather at the State House next week, for the first time as a group, for an all-day orientation session. Aimed at the 22 new members of......
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11:04 AM Wed, Dec 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- PolitiFact Rhode Island has created a new Facebook page. Our old page -- PolitiFact RI -- had some technical problems. We will be disabling it soon. Check us at our new Facebook page, "PolitiFact Rhode Island," and......
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9:58 AM Wed, Dec 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. - - Robert Walsh, the executive director of the National Education Association of Rhode Island, is on leave until the new year. The leave had been planned, according to Charlene Small, legal secretary for the general council at......
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