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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox has promoted Thomas Falcone to executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislation Services, the leadership committee chaired by Fox that oversees the day-to-day......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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By PHILIP MARCELO Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly 500 people attended House Speaker Gordon D. Fox's first fundraiser of the year, held at the Providence Marriott TuesdayJan. 25, including statewide officeholders, a bevy of union representatives and......
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6:35 AM Mon, Jan 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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With the addition of attorney, lobbyist, and Rhode Island's Future blog founder Matthew Jerzyk to his administration, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has dropped the Capital City Group as the city's State House lobbyist. The Capital City Group, which includes lobbyist......
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6:30 AM Mon, Jan 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON, DC -- A large segment of Rhode Island's community of Washington D.C. transplants gathered Tuesday to remember Pawtucket native J. Eugene Quinn, a longtime U.S. Department of Commerce official who died last month at the age of 70. Active......
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4:59 PM Fri, Jan 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Kenneth Richardson was elected the new chair of the Providence Democratic city committee Thursday night. More than 100 committee members were in attendance at the Rosario Club, in the Silver Lake neighborhood, for the vote. They also......
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12:37 PM Fri, Jan 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As promised, the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled an early-session hearing on a proposal -- co-sponsored by Speaker Gordon D. Fox -- to legalize same-sex marriage in Rhode Island. As described in the agenda for the meeting,......
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7:01 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Halloween could permanently fall on the last Saturday in October, under a bill introduced Thursday by state Rep. Donald J. Lally, Jr. Lally, a South Kingstown Democrat, said he submitted......
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5:46 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Senate has confirmed a former member of its own ranks -- onetime state senator, lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate candidate Richard A. Licht -- as Governor Chafee's new $149,511-a-year......
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5:27 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Department of Labor & Training has officially cleared former Chafee campaign manager John "J.R.'' Pagliarini of allegations that he was drawing $546 in weekly unemployment benefits in late 2009, while on the Chafee campaign payroll.......
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4:52 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The lineup of Senate Democratic committee assignments for the 112th Congress, announced Thursday afternoon by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, paves the way for Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed to assume a powerful new job. Reed,......
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2:11 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After watching one candidate capture nearly 40 percent of the vote last year on a platform to eliminate the office he was running for, state Rep. Stephen R. Ucci thinks the time has come to ask voters......
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6:17 PM Wed, Jan 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Having scuttled his first idea for what to do with the $11,393 raise that came with his new job, Governor Chafee has come up with a new one. Spokesman Michael Trainor said Chafee now believes a "better......
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4:30 PM Tue, Jan 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee intends to ask legislative leaders for a reprieve from the state law that would otherwise require him to submit his first budget proposal next week. Governors are required to submit their tax-and-spending plans by the......
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3:41 PM Tue, Jan 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As Governor Chafee's nominee for state labor director, former Lt. Gov. Charles J. Fogarty faces questions about how he ended up with a federal tax lien against his home in......
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10:33 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The political fundraising season begins this week for state lawmakers. In keeping with State House tradition, the House Speaker -- Gordon D. Fox -- will hold the first of many legislative fundraisers to come with a......
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7:04 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Congressman and former Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline found himself among familiar company last week, welcoming the nation's mayors at the 79th winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. During his eight-year tenure......
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7:02 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Recently cleared of a misdemeanor gun charge, state Rep. Peter J. Petrarca has been named senior deputy majority leader by House Speaker Gordon D. Fox. Petrarca, a Lincoln Democrat who served last year as......
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7:01 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Since losing the House District 12 seat that represents Providence's South Side last year, former Rep. Joseph Almeida says he's been involved in founding the Black Business Commerce of Rhode Island. Political Scene had......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As the new chairman of the state Senate Government Oversight Committee, Frank A. Ciccone III is free to choose a new committee clerk. Well, he has chosen, and the name should be familiar to......
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6:25 PM Sun, Jan 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - From John F. Robitaille, the 2010 Republican nominee for governor who nearly made it, comes word that former Gov. Donald L. Carcieri may soon create a U.S. Senate exploratory committee, and that Carcieri's former campaign chief` Ken......
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5:56 PM Sun, Jan 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE - Despite a smattering of opposition over his national role in the abortion debate, a Senate committee on Thursday endorsed onetime state senator, lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate candidate Richard A. Licht as the $149,511-a-year director......
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8:00 PM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence GOP has a new leader. After eight years as chairman of the feisty, but hugely outnumbered Providence Republican City Committee, David Talan was defeated Thursday by East Sider Tara Pinsky on what Talan describes......
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12:55 PM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former District Court Judge Stephen P. Erickson will not be joining the Chafee administration after all as the new governor's director of legislative affairs. Already retired from the state court bench......
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12:13 PM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The political fund-raising season begins next week for state lawmakers, with House Speaker Gordon D. Fox keeping alive a tradition started by his predecessors by hosting the first of many......
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10:47 AM Fri, Jan 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau Leslie Taito, the chief of an organization for Rhode Island manufacturers, will be the guest of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse next Tuesday when President Obama speaks to the Congress about the state of the......
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6:55 PM Thu, Jan 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A key Senate committee has approved two of new Governor Chafee's nominees to top-level positions in his cabinet. First the Senate Finance Committee approved Chafee's nomination of one-time state Senator,......
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11:05 AM Thu, Jan 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- John Robitaille, the Republican who came within two-and-a-half percentage points of winning the 2010 gubernatorial contest, says he is more likely to run for governor again in four years than he is for the U.S. Senate in......
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10:31 PM Wed, Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- In case anyone was wondering, yes, it has been a snowy winter -- officially. And there's more to come. Meteorologist Neal Strauss, of the National Weather Service's office in Taunton, said so far, 25.8 inches of snow had......
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9:49 PM Wed, Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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After narrowly losing the 2010 race for Governor to Lincoln D. Chafee, Republican John F. Robitaille says he's ready to try for the job again in 2014. Robitaille told WBRU radio in a sit-down interview that, while four years......
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3:20 PM Wed, Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When Governor Chafee meets Thursday with the consul general of Italy, one of the people on hand will be Ronald W. Del Sesto, the honorary vice consul of Italy for......
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7:56 AM Wed, Jan 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy remembered his uncle, R. Sargent Shriver, Tuesday as a man whose ``buoyant, engaging and fun-loving personality'' made him very successful in public life and widely beloved......
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5:07 PM Tue, Jan 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The latest round of lobbyist filings has drawn attention to the Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio's $190,246 compensation package from an arm of the Laborers International Union of North America.......
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2:54 PM Tue, Jan 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Democratic Rep. John G. Edwards of Tiverton has again introduced legislation to decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. Possession of any amount of marijuana is currently a......
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1:01 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Felice J. Freyer An all-star cast of government officials showed up for a closed-door conference on the future of Landmark Medical Center on Friday, but they offered no comment on what that future may bring. Attorney General Peter F.......
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12:59 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Richard Licht, former lieutenant governor and five-term state senator, has won quiet applause among some state workers for one of his first official acts as director of the Department of Administration. Instead of taking the Al Haig......
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12:57 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Christopher Nocera, a high-level aide to former Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. and a member of Mayor Taveras' winning campaign last year, has found his way back to City Hall. He was spotted last week in the......
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12:55 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Former Gov. Donald L. Carcieri has left the State House, but his legacy -- and his portrait -- remain. Unveiled last month, the $15,000 painting of Carcieri by Scituate artist Harley W. Bartlett is now displayed on......
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12:52 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar While state lawmakers gear up for what looks to be a busy legislative session, the Rhode Island Tea Party is gearing up with its own "legislative agenda" for 2011. Released on Friday, a "partial list" of Tea......
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8:12 AM Fri, Jan 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Maria Armental Journal Staff Writer CRANSTON, R.I. -- City Democrats have reached an agreement settling a dispute over who would chair the various City Council committees. The controversy broke in late December when Democratic councilmen Anthony J. Lupino and......
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6:39 PM Wed, Jan 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The headline read: "Public workforce is major target of budget-cutters.'' On the same day this headline appeared above a story on Stateline.org about budget-cutting efforts in New York, California, Illinois and Iowa, the Rhode Island AFL-CIO......
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3:08 PM Wed, Jan 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg and Tom Mooney PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With his talk-radio avoidance policy making the national news and rating the second-highest placed headline on the Drudge Report at one point on Wednesday, Governor Chafee is defending his decision. In......
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3:08 PM Wed, Jan 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Connie Grosch Governor Chafee shovels out at his East Side home on Barnes Street in Providence following a midday press conference on the Wednesday snowstorm's impact on Rhode Island. Chafee first went before the cameras at a......
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6:22 PM Tue, Jan 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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The cancellations caused by the latest snow storm will continue into Thursday, giving state lawmakers a second day off from their usual floor sessions. Both chambers also canceled their sessions on Wednesday. The House and Senate are scheduled to......
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6:21 PM Tue, Jan 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gary Alexander, chief of the Office of Health & Human Services under former Governor Carcieri, has lined up a potential new job in Pennsylvania. The announcement by Governor-elect Tom Corbett's office said Corbett "intends to nominate Gary......
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5:43 PM Tue, Jan 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox filled two key posts Tuesday, choosing East Providence Democrat Helio Melo to chair the powerful House Finance Committee and Providence Democrat Edith Ajello to chair the House Judiciary Committee. Melo, elected to......
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2:43 PM Tue, Jan 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The two sides in the same-sex marriage debate went into battle mode on Tuesday. Opponents attempted to launch a $100,000 TV ad campaign that belittles new Governor Chafee as a......
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8:15 PM Mon, Jan 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The local chapter of the National Organization for Marriage is launching a $100,000 TV advertising campaign aimed at defeating the legalization of same-sex marriage in Rhode Island. The first TV ad scheduled for airing on Tuesday will......
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6:08 PM Mon, Jan 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- No one is likely to confuse new Governor Chafee with his Republican predecessor, Donald L. Carcieri, and now here's another way to tell them apart: Chafee doesn't plan to spend his own time on talk-radio, and he......
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1:14 PM Mon, Jan 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor Chafee plans to announce Tuesday his decision on whether to keep the state's Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher Koller. Without saying what Chafee has decided, his spokesman Michael Trainor said......
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1:01 PM Mon, Jan 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will join projo.com Tuesday morning for a live chat with readers. Democrat Reed, who is in Rhode Island at the beginning of this week, will be available to answer questions ranging from the......
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6:30 PM Fri, Jan 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A spokesman for new Governor Chafee confirms that he hopes to keep Sandra Powell, who was the state labor director under his predecessor, in his own administration. Chafee has already chosen former Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty to......
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6:28 PM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee transmitted to the state Senate on Thursday some of his nominations for Cabinet and director-level appointments. Among them are: -Janet L. Coit, former director of the Rhode Island Nature Conservancy, as director of the Department......
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5:55 PM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the introduction on Thursday of same-sex marriage bills in both the House and Senate, the battle now begins. In the House, Rep. Arthur Handy, D-Cranston introduced his annual bill......
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5:54 PM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed named Sen. Frank A. Ciccone III, an employee of the state laborer's union, to serve as chairman of the Senate Government Oversight Committee. He was among three new committee chairmen appointed......
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4:07 PM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In one of their first acts this year, state lawmakers have banned state officials and agencies from using any term but "Christmas trees'' to describe the trees that are "customarily erected or displayed'' during the holidays. The......
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3:23 PM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On the day that the first same-sex marriage bill of the year is expected to make its appearance at the State House, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts voiced her own support for what she called "marriage equality,''......
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11:46 AM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There was poetry in the Senate chamber on opening day. Quite literally, as Sen. J. Susan Sosnowksi, D-South Kingstown, read aloud a poem she wrote to convey, to her colleagues, why she believed Senate President M. Teresa......
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6:48 PM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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Which words did Rhode Island Governor Chafee and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras use most often in their inaugural addresses this week? This interactive "word cloud" illustrates the 100 words the new office holders have used most in their speeches.......
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5:29 PM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The drive to legalize gay marriage in Rhode Island will begin anew on Thursday, with the re-introduction in the House of a bill to allow for same-sex nuptials. In a......
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2:03 PM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. The state's senators have 452 "friends'' between them. As of mid-day on Wednesday, the members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives only had 19. But the House is new to the world of social networking, having......
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9:33 AM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Journal Staff Writer NORTH KINGSTOWN -- After two hours of testimony opposed to a proposed 427-foot wind turbine at Stamp Farm on Route 2 Tuesday night, the North Kingstown Planning Commission said it would be scheduling additional......
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5:55 PM Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Newport Democrat M. Teresa Paiva Weed has been reelected as Senate president for the new two-year legislative session that began on Tuesday. The vote was 33 to 5.......
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2:47 PM Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In one of his first acts as Rhode Island's new governor, Lincoln D. Chafee plans a public signing at 3 p.m. Tuesday of his first executive order. It begins: "As......
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12:09 PM Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Journal and projo.com are covering Governor Chafee's inaugural day Tuesday as it happens, in blog posts, photos and video. Coverage is available through our 7to7newsblog, mobile and Twitter feeds, and projo.com's homepage.......
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8:06 AM Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Greet the new governor. Lincoln D. Chafee is to be sworn in as Rhode Island's next governor at noon on Tuesday in a ceremony on the South Portico of the State House. Secretary of State A. Ralph......
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5:17 PM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- People who care about disability issues are being urged to attend Tuesday's inauguration of Lincoln D. Chafee as governor -- both to take part in the celebration and to bring attention to "accessibility issues" at the State......
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4:02 PM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor -elect Lincoln D. Chafee has carved out a spot on his State House team for a trusted campaign adviser: retired District Court Judge Stephen P. Erickson. Spokesman Michael Trainor......
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2:29 PM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Soon after taking the oath of office on Tuesday, new Governor Lincoln D. Chafee will issue his first executive order. The topic: ethics. Spokesman Michael Trainor said the order will "establish clear standards for ethical behavior in......
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2:01 PM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Governor-elect Lincoln D. Chafee has a seasoned hand - and former speechwriter for President Clinton - helping to write his inaugural speech. Spokesman Michael Trainor confirms that Edward L. "Ted''......
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7:01 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo and Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau With the departure of state Reps. Steven M. Costantino and David A. Caprio, the chairmanships of two high-profile House committees -- Finance and Judiciary -- are up for grabs when......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau Frank T. Caprio is the state's general treasurer until his successor, Gina M. Raimondo, is sworn in Tuesday, but a walk past the treasurer's office in the State House would suggest otherwise. By......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau In the tradition of other once and future candidates, Anthony P. Gemma -- one of the four Democrats competing for Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District seat in last Fall's primary -- is about......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau When he takes his oath of office on Tuesday as Rhode Island's next governor, Lincoln D. Chafee will place his hand on the careworn Bible of his father -- the late Rhode Island......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau For the fourth year in a row, General Assembly leaders opted against holding their once traditional holiday party at the State House. The gatherings typically brought out lawmakers (past and present), lobbyists, advocates,......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jan 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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As a blizzard bore down on Rhode Island on Dec. 26, a blizzard of e-mails went back and forth between the politicos in Cranston. Following a conference call that Sunday afternoon, Councilman Robert J. Pelletier, the council's liaison to Mayor......
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