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April 2011 Archives
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4:20 PM Fri, Apr 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon D. Fox and other legislative leaders filed their financial disclosure reports for calendar year 2010 to the state Ethics Commission by Friday's deadline. View Fox's report here. FoxGordonD2010.pdf His report showed income from his......
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2:54 PM Fri, Apr 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee boosted his campaign account by $40,487 during the first three months of 2011, taking in $39,395 in donations as well as a $50,003 refund from a Virginia media company that more than offset his campaign......
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2:34 PM Fri, Apr 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee and the four other statewide office holders filed their financial disclosure reports for calendar year 2010 to the state Ethics Commission by Friday's deadline. View Chafee's report here. ChafeeLincolnD2010.pdf Chafee, a Warwick resident, reported the......
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12:21 PM Fri, Apr 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly five months into his tenure, Governor Chafee, the nation's only independent governor, says he's liking being unaffiliated and has no plans to join a political party at this point. He also said he has not made......
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5:17 PM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Peter Petrarca will introduce legislation Tuesday granting gay couples access to civil unions, according to a House spokesman. Petrarca has said the proposal would borrow heavily from a bill that the Lincoln Democrat has already......
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2:15 PM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Following through on pledges made earlier this year, the state House of Representatives and the state Senate plan to begin posting committee votes online starting next week, spokesmen for the two chambers said Thursday. The votes will......
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1:28 PM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee went to the mat this week for his alma mater Brown University's varsity wrestling team, which faces elimination this year, the Brown Daily Herald reports on Thursday. Chafee, who graduated from Brown in 1975, was......
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12:59 PM Thu, Apr 28, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Was there support in the state House of Representatives this session to pass legislation that would have granted gay couples the right to marry in Rhode Island? Even among members of House Speaker Gordon D. Fox's leadership......
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2:06 PM Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Unable to win passage of same-sex marriage legislation this year, Rhode Island's openly gay House Speaker Gordon D. Fox has thrown his support to civil unions. In a letter that went out to his House colleagues on......
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10:49 AM Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Mary Murphy Governor Chafee discusses his tax proposal during a breakfast hosted by the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce at the Kirkbrae Country Club. By Philip Marcelo Journal Staff Writer LINCOLN, R.I. - Governor Chafee said......
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10:02 AM Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a possible vote Tuesday on legislation that would require voters to provide proof of identification before casting a ballot. The legislation, S-0400, would require proof of identity for any person attempting to......
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8:04 AM Tue, Apr 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The executive director of the advocacy group Marriage Equality of Rhode Island has resigned amid growing uncertainty about the fate of this year's drive to allow same-sex marriage in Rhode Island. In response to questions, the advocacy......
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7:29 PM Mon, Apr 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A key state Senate committee has scheduled a possible vote Tuesday on legislation that would require voters to provide proof of identification before casting a ballot. The legislation, S-0400, would require proof of identity for any person......
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3:46 PM Mon, Apr 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG, JOHN HILL and BRYAN ROURKE Journal staff writers PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Minority Leader Robert Watson Monday morning issued a statement in which he vehemently denies "driving under the influence" in response to his arrest Friday night......
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2:25 PM Mon, Apr 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Sen. John J. Tassoni, a Smithfield Democrat, has introduced 70 bills into the state General Assembly, the most out of any legislator so far this session, according to a count taken by the Joint Committee on......
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6:05 PM Sun, Apr 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Three weeks after his expected return to Rhode Island after a winter-long break, former Gov. Donald L. Carcieri will pick up another honorary degree. On May 21, he will receive one of six honorary doctorate degrees awarded......
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4:56 PM Fri, Apr 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House Speaker Gordon D. Fox has responded to House Minority Leader Robert Watson's call for an open meeting Tuesday to talk about legislative employee raises with an alternate suggestion. In a letter obtained by The Journal,......
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5:34 PM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former State Police Superintendent Brendan P. Doherty says he has not yet decided what direction to take in his professional life, but he has asked a friend, Dante Bellini, to handle his communications. Bellini, the executive vice......
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5:18 PM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy and leading Democratic state lawmakers have reached a compromise on a sales tax overhaul that may have an impact on Rhode Island, where Governor Chafee is also pushing significant changes to the......
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2:10 PM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Republican Senate candidate Benjamin "Barry" Hinckley III has hired Travis Rowley, chairman of Rhode Island Young Republicans, as a campaign consultant. Hinckley, a Newport resident who hopes to unseat Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse next year, said he hired......
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2:06 PM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The State House question of the day: Will House and Senate leaders acquiesce to House Minority Leader Robert Watson's demand for a meeting Tuesday of the legislative leadership committee to talk about "personnel policy relating to compensation......
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9:15 AM Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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Former congressional candidate John J. Loughlin II is off to Iraq, having come out of U.S. Army retirement to help the armed forces with public affairs work. Republican John J. Loughlin II, during a debate last year in the congressional......
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6:51 PM Wed, Apr 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Smith Hill gambling debate will begin anew next week with the introduction by Rep. William San Bento of legislation to give voters a chance to allow "state-operated casino gambling'' at the sprawling Twin River slot......
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3:46 PM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With his sales-tax proposal under attack by top lawmakers, Governor Chafee has gone into campaign mode to save other major pieces of his budget, including roughly $60 million in......
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3:46 PM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With his sales-tax proposal under attack by top lawmakers, Governor Chafee has gone into campaign mode to save other major pieces of his budget, including roughly $60 million in......
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2:26 PM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state General Assembly, which is off this week for a spring recess, has transmitted 61 bills and other legislative matters to Governor Chafee so far this year. Twelve of those bills have been signed by the......
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12:28 PM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Politicians and business leaders have formed a coalition that they say will propose solutions and alternatives to Governor Chafee's budget and policy priorities. I.D.E.A. Rhode Island, or Individuals Demanding Economic Accountability, formed shortly after the 2010 election......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau The Providence Democratic City Committee is looking to hire an executive director. The city committee, with about 165 members, wants a full-time employee to work with Providence residents, Democratic committee members, and the......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau For labor leaders and municipal leaders, one of the most significant events last week was Thursday's House Municipal Government Committee hearing on a bill that would raise the retirement age for municipal employees,......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau As executive director of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns, Dan Beardsley is not known to be shy about drawing on past experience when talking to legislative committees about the fiscal......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcello State House Bureau It was perhaps a bit of historical revisionism when Governor Chafee last week credited former Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey for raising property taxes during his tenure at the helm of Rhode Island's third......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg State House Bureau Former House Minority Leader Nicholas Gorham, quite literally, has a new lease on life. Last Tuesday, the State Properties Committee approved Gorham's bid to raise and harvest crops on a 23-acre state-owned piece of......
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6:59 AM Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Public employees and taxpayers were not the only ones with a deep interest in the outcome of Wednesday's meeting of the state retirement board, chaired by new state Treasurer Gina Raimondo. Paul Solman,......
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6:59 AM Sun, Apr 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau The College Republican Federation of Rhode Island elected Brown University sophomore Terrence George as the new state chairman at its annual convention this month. George is a political science major from Chicago and......
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10:50 AM Fri, Apr 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Two of U.S. Rep. David N.Cicilline's opponents from the 2010 congressional race have filed federal campaign reports for the first quarter of the 2012 election cycle, but one of them indicates......
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12:01 AM Fri, Apr 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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Paul Edward Parker and Kate Bramson West Warwick leads most of Rhode Island in the percentage of adult residents who collected unemployment benefits, according to figures from the state Department of Labor and Training. More than 5 percent of the......
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10:17 PM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- During Thursday's House session, House Minority Leader Robert Watson publicly "commended'' and "congratulated'' House Speaker Gordon D. Fox for his stance on Chafee's sales tax package, and specifically for his......
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3:47 PM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the state House of Representatives all but rejecting Governor Chafee's sales tax proposal on Wednesday, one question is whether the state Senate will voice similar opposition. Senate spokesman Gregory......
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2:05 PM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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BULLETIN, posted 2:54 p.m: In a one-sentence press release, Governor Chafee's office said that the governor "has been delayed and will not be available" for his previously scheduled meeting with news media Thursday afternoon at 3. By Philip Marcelo Journal......
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1:41 PM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By THOMAS MORGAN Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Common Cause and Operation Clean Government on Thursday challenged Governor Chafee's appointment of Barrington Police Chief John M. LaCross to the state Ethics Commission, contending that state law prohibits public officials......
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12:04 PM Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the state House of Representatives all but rejecting Governor Chafee's sales tax proposal on Wednesday, one question is whether the state Senate will voice similar opposition. Senate spokesman Gregory......
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2:20 PM Wed, Apr 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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When he campaigned for governor last year, Moderate Party founder Kenneth J. Block said he could save the state $150 million by cutting waste and fraud in Medicaid programs. Block didn't win the election, but the business owner and software......
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1:04 PM Wed, Apr 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Republican caucus in the state House of Representatives is asking Governor Chafee to abandon his budget proposal for the coming year and start working on a new proposal that reduces spending and provides more relief to cities and towns.......
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4:58 PM Tue, Apr 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Minority Leader Robert A. Watson is asking House and Senate leaders to convene a meeting of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services to discuss a plan to abolish longevity pay raises for General Assembly employees and......
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12:49 PM Tue, Apr 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee and opponents of his sales-tax overhaul plan held competing news conferences at the State House on Tuesday, the day before state lawmakers were set to start hearings on......
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5:31 PM Mon, Apr 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House and Senate judiciary committees will take up matching bills this week that would give voters a chance to restore Ethics Commission jurisdiction over the actions of Rhode Island's lawmakers. The bills, if adopted, would allow......
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5:04 PM Mon, Apr 11, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A high-ranking Democratic congressman is scheduled to come to Providence on Monday night to attend a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline. Rep. James E. Clyburn, of South Carolina, will be among the featured guests at......
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5:40 PM Sun, Apr 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Back in February, U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates inquiring about the military's policy toward what female U.S. soldiers wear in the Muslim countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. A 2002......
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5:37 PM Sun, Apr 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Among the many people recognized last week on the floor of the state House of Representatives was Brad Gorham, the former Republican minority leader and father of former Rep. Nick Gorham. Rep. Robert Watson, the current minority......
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5:31 PM Sun, Apr 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Another member of former Gov. Donald L. Carcieri's team has landed in Pennsylvania. Tim Costa, who was Carcieri's policy director for a number of years, is now the executive deputy secretary at the Pennsylvania Department of Public......
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5:27 PM Sun, Apr 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin visited Rhode Island on March 31 to stump for gay marriage, but he also had another goal -- raise a little cash. After meeting at the State House with gay-marriage supporters such as......
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4:55 PM Fri, Apr 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Legislation allowing gay couples to marry in Rhode Island remains in limbo, as a key Rhode Island House committee has yet to vote on the measure. House Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Edith Ajello says no vote has been......
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2:43 PM Fri, Apr 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee would oppose the passage by Congress of any federal legislation "that would open the door to a federal Indian casino operating in Charlestown.'' But this was the response from......
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1:33 PM Fri, Apr 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Front and center in the Rhode Island labor movement for almost three decades, Local 1033 business manager Donald Iannazzi intends to run one more time for a top leadership post in the Laborers International Union affiliate that......
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4:16 PM Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I -- Governor Chafee's proposed sales tax changes have yet to be approved by the state General Assembly, but plans are already under way to roll out the plan, according to state officials. In his proposed budget for fiscal......
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3:00 PM Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The debate about how to carve up the land left behind by the Route 195 relocation is no longer on the calendar next week for a Rhode Island Senate committee. The Senate Committee on Housing and Municipal......
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2:28 PM Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I -- Five consultants from Rhode Island, New Jersey, Colorado, New York and Minnesota have expressed interest in conducting a wide-ranging casino study for the new Chafee Administration. While unwilling to disclose......
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1:09 PM Wed, Apr 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Would Governor Chafee's sales tax plan affect computer software consultants? Not according to state officials. Responding to a Monday Journal op-ed column by software-company owner and former gubernatorial candidate Ken Block, a state official said this week......
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11:18 AM Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island lawmakers will consider a proposal to allow gay couples and others who can't legally marry to enter into an agreement providing many of the benefits of marriage. The House Committee on Judiciary will review......
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9:19 AM Tue, Apr 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Chafee unveiled a new effort to communicate with the public Monday, one that will provide updates on his administration's workings via email. Called NewsLINC, the updates will be issued each Monday morning, providing "stories that highlight......
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1:22 PM Mon, Apr 04, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Rhode Island Progressive Network brought its message of workers' rights and social justice to the State House Monday afternoon, urging support for an agenda that focuses on job creation, education and housing. More than 100 people gathered in the......
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6:00 PM Fri, Apr 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON, R.I. -- For anyone who's wondering what former Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey is up to these days, here are a few hints: Horses. Cattle. Colorado. Want to know more? Check out the website at www.laffeysirishanimals.com. There you will see......
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