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5:02 PM Thu, Jun 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello and House Finance Committee Chairman Helio Melo have now joined a GOP-led drive to repeal an early-morning budget amendment that would, in effect, steer all of the state's TV and radio advertising......
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9:06 AM Thu, Jun 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Kate Bramson Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House Finance Committee will reconvene at noon Thursday to consider additional changes on a bill affecting development of prime real estate in Providence available from the relocation of Route 195.......
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3:05 PM Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After several months of job-hunting, Beryl Kenyon, a one-time deputy in former Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's press office, has landed a new role in state government. She is now the chief of information and public relations......
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2:47 PM Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- One-time Republican Secretary of State Susan Farmer is headed for a seat on the Rhode Island Board of Elections. Governor Chafee's nomination of Farmer to the board -- to the......
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2:01 PM Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - In their effort to bring the 2011 legislative session to a close by the end of this week, lawmakers have packed their Wednesday agenda with potential votes on more......
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1:06 PM Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Senate approved legislation on Tuesday that would move Rhode Island's 2012 presidential primary from March 6 to April 24. The change would see voters in Rhode Island go to the polls in 2012 on the......
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1:02 PM Wed, Jun 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As the 2011 legislative session rapidly winds down, Democratic and Republican leaders in the House agreed on Tuesday to suspend one of their chamber's rules, paving the way for bills to be voted on by the full......
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1:55 PM Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, D-RI, is one of two dozen new millionaires in this year's Congress, The Washington Post reports. He's also one of just three freshman House Democrats, including U.S. Rep. William Keating of Massachusetts......
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12:35 PM Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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BRISTOL, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. David Cicilline will host a neighborhood supper for 1st District constituents in the Bristol area Tuesday. The supper, at Franklin Court, 150 Franklin St., will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Bristol area residents will......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The date of Rhode Island's presidential primary is on the move. Bills currently moving with speed through the House and Senate would push presidential primary day from the first Tuesday......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By RANDAL EDGAR State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- She's often addressed as "Madam President," but last Tuesday, as the Senate wrapped up its daily session, Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed seemed to have found a new title. The......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By PHILIP MARCELO State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Board of Elections will take up this week the issue of whether ActBlue, a national Democratic fundraising organization, can raise campaign funds in Rhode Island without being confined by......
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1:17 PM Fri, Jun 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On closer look, the proposed $7.7 billion state budget headed for a vote by the Rhode Island House of Representatives on Friday paves the way for a possible sales tax......
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3:24 PM Thu, Jun 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A bill opening a door to the "retroactive payment'' of unemployment benefits to substitute teachers, school bus drivers and custodians for school-break weeks and summer vacations when they were out......
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12:01 PM Thu, Jun 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With a House vote on the proposed $7.7 billion budget a day away, organized labor is leading a "fight back'' campaign at the State House to try to head off......
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7:46 PM Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House lawmakers have submitted nearly 60 amendments to the Finance Committee budget that will be up for a vote on Friday, according to House spokesman Larry Berman. Lawmakers said that funding the state bus system and restoring......
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12:35 PM Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The end of the legislative session is near when the lawmakers start introducing - and voting - on bills to reimburse drivers for their car-repair bills and provide "judge emeritus'' license plates to retired judges. Here's a......
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2:54 PM Tue, Jun 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATE BRAMSON Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The incentive program that granted tax breaks earlier this year of up to $1.6 million to Hasbro Inc. and up to $420,586 to TD Bank, in return for the companies' promises......
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2:44 PM Tue, Jun 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By PHILIP MARCELO Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The city scored some key victories in the state budget, gaining needed flexibility in certain state requirements, plus an added boost in state funding for hosting tax exempt institutions, like......
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2:16 PM Tue, Jun 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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The House Finance Committee met for all of 90 minutes this past Friday before voting to send the state budget to the House floor. One person who was not impressed is former gubernatorial candidate and Moderate Party founder Kenneth J.......
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12:49 PM Tue, Jun 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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Journal staff and wire reports PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- More than 2,500 progressive political activists will come to Providence in June 2012 to take part in the annual Netroots Nation conference. But the group of progressive bloggers wants no competition for......
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12:24 PM Tue, Jun 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The 12 member pension-advisory group assembled by the governor and state treasurer has set a date for its first meeting. The group will meet Monday, June 27 at 10 a.m. at a location that has not yet......
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3:36 PM Mon, Jun 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Over the attorney general's strong objections, the Senate Judiciary Committee may vote Tuesday on a bill to give state judges the discretion to remove "legal impediments'' from the path of......
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1:45 PM Mon, Jun 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Governor Chafee says he'll keep pushing to lower and broaden the sales tax. But Chafee, an independent, acknowledges he's unlikely to succeed now that lawmakers are calling for much smaller changes to the sales tax in......
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4:57 PM Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By RANDAL EDGAR State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's not every day that House Minority Whip Joseph A. Trillo, D-Warwick, manages to get an amendment passed on the House floor, but he pulled it off last week on a......
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4:50 PM Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By RANDAL EDGAR Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The notion of saving money by cutting waste and fraud in health and human services programs has taken a back seat in recent weeks as legislative leaders craft a state......
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4:44 PM Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By PHILIP MARCELLO Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Chronicle of Higher Education, a news organization that covers academia, released its first ever survey this month of where the 7,000-plus state lawmakers in America went to college. Unsurprisingly,......
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4:38 PM Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By PHILIP MARCELLO Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Someone has posted an advertisement on the free classifieds website craigslist this month seeking to enlist Democratic challengers to Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed, a Newport Democrat up for......
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4:30 PM Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There were seven Harvard degrees among the 12 people chosen to participate in the pension-reform task force jointly announced by the governor and state treasurer last week, and resumés that......
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3:05 PM Fri, Jun 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Finance Committee Chairman Helio Melo says that the hearing set for this afternoon on the state budget will be delayed. The chairman was to have briefed the media at......
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2:32 PM Fri, Jun 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The House Finance Committee, members of Governor Chafee's inner circle, and leading Senate Democrats are currently meeting behind closed doors in the third floor office of Committee Chairman Helio Melo about the state budget. Finance Committee members......
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6:17 PM Thu, Jun 16, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Friday is budget day at the State House, but it is also the day of the "Department of Administration/Department of Revenue Summer Outing.'' The coincidence came to light when Governor Chafee's......
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12:06 PM Wed, Jun 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A fast-moving bill backed by organized labor to retroactively allow double payments for the same injury from the state's workers' compensation and retirement systems is slated for a vote Wednesday......
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9:50 AM Wed, Jun 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Doreen Costa (R-North Kingstown, Exeter) has submitted a bill that would required mandatory drug testing for all applicants of public assistance, the House Minority Office said in a news release Wednesday morning. The purpose of House......
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8:40 AM Tue, Jun 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island lawmakers have a hearing scheduled on legislation that would allow automated cameras to help police catch speeders. The bill, sponsored by Providence Democratic Rep. John McCauley, would create a procedure to for using the......
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2:38 PM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Democrats will caucus on Tuesday afternoon on their version of the state budget for the next fiscal year, which they are set to release publicly sometime this week, state lawmakers said Monday. Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence,......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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Randal Edgar Journal State House Bureau Those who wondered if the Moderate Party of Rhode Island was going to fade away after the November election might be surprised to learn that the party updated its website last week, removing old-news......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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Journal State House Bureau Benjamin "Barry" Hinckley III, the first and so far the only Republican to announce a challenge to U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, stopped by the Rhode Island House of Representatives last Tuesday, where he was introduced by......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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Philip Marcelo Journal State House Bureau About 300 people attended a fundraiser for Providence Councilman Terrence M. Hassett at the Roger Williams Park Casino last Wednesday, according to event organizers. Among the attendees were Congressman David N. Cicilline, Providence Mayor......
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8:00 AM Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | Permalink |
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Journal State House Staff Former Republican Gov. Don Carcieri will be the headliner at former state police Supt. Brendan P. Doherty's first big fundraiser as a Congressional candidate. The fundraiser will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on June......
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2:30 PM Fri, Jun 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- "A trip back to the future.'' That is the way Gary Sasse, a top-level official in the Carcieri administration -- and long-time head of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council -- described the front-page news Friday about......
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4:55 PM Thu, Jun 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Senate unanimously approved two retiree-rehiring bills Thursday. One of them would allow the hiring of up to 50 retired public-school teachers and administrators as $500-a-day consultants to the state Department of Education. Governor Chafee is......
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4:38 PM Thu, Jun 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A spokesman for former state police Supt. Brendan P. Doherty says the the newly minted congressional candidate will have his first fundraiser on June 21. His special guest: former Republican Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, according to the......
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12:46 PM Thu, Jun 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Staff PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As budget negotiations continue behind the scenes at the Rhode Island State House, state GOP leader Ken McKay is demanding to know who among the General Assembly's Democratic leaders are......
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4:06 PM Wed, Jun 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State lawmakers will not have a budget for next year ready this week, House spokesman Larry Berman confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Lawmakers are looking at sometime next week to unveil their proposed budget for the fiscal year that......
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3:51 PM Wed, Jun 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON _ An influential nonpartisan campaign analyst sees "a compelling case that Democrat David Cicilline is one of the most vulnerable incumbents in Congress" and raises the possibility that party strategists might press......
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7:30 PM Tue, Jun 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former House Finance Committee Chairman Antonio J. Pires testified before his old committee on Tuesday afternoon on a number of bills supported by his new boss, Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien. Pires, who was a Democratic state representative......
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4:06 PM Tue, Jun 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Senate committee is being asked to open the door for a state agency to insure the mortgages of "sailing vessels,'' and most immediately, the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry. On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee will consider......
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9:26 AM Tue, Jun 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is scheduled visit a Rhode Island business park to talk about the fishing industry and meet employees. Langevin is also expected to talk about the intersection of job training and business......
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3:58 PM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In an effort to preserve the status of Liberians living legally in the United States, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed on Monday led a letter signed by 14 of his colleagues to President Obama urging an extension and......
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7:08 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed had an interesting end of May. First, he made headlines as the Memorial Day weekend approached by introducing legislation requiring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to strengthen labeling and......
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7:08 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Tea Party has a new television show, "TeaTV." Colleen Conley, the group's founder, says the half hour show is devoted to discussing state policy and interviewing elected officials and other......
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7:06 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rep. Anastasia P. Williams, D-Providence, has in recent weeks been reelected as the chairwoman of the Rhode Island Legislative Black and Latino Caucus for the 2011-2012 legislative session. Freshman Rep. Leo Medina, D-Providence, is......
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7:05 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Randal Edgar PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Before turning testy last Wednesday, the House opened its session with the return of a familiar face -- that of 104-year-old Frank DiPaolo Jr., who retired a year ago this month as a House......
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7:03 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The latest round of proposed budget amendments drew attention to the hiring, by General Treasurer Gina Raimondo, of $595-an-hour lawyers out of Washington, D.C., to help Rhode Island navigate its way through an investigation......
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7:01 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After sparking a run of rumors last week about his former boss, state GOP chairman Ken McKay acknowledged Friday that he really doesn't know what former Governor Carcieri plans to do during election-year 2012......
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7:00 AM Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg There were no heavy lifts on the House calendar Wednesday as members gathered to vote on several bills before an address by state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist. No big budget bills or pension-reform proposals. But the debates......
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3:05 PM Thu, Jun 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With the state's unemployment rate at 10.9 percent, Rhode Island lawmakers are nearing a decision on whether to open the doors even wider for retirees to return to the state......
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1:59 PM Thu, Jun 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's leading gay marriage advocacy group says it opposes legislation to create civil unions because of a provision allowing religious groups to ignore the new law. Marriage Equality Rhode Island says it's urging lawmakers to......
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1:33 PM Thu, Jun 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has failed the United States and is pitching himself as an alternative who can fix the nation's ailing economy. The former Massachusetts governor on Thursday made official his White......
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1:25 PM Thu, Jun 02, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A business-backed think tank has concluded that Rhode Island's sales tax should be reformed, apparently lending support to Governor Chafee's plan to overhaul the state sales tax as a way......
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11:22 AM Wed, Jun 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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By Katherine Gregg Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two freshman Republican lawmakers are seeking to cap the disability pensions paid retired municipal workers who have moved on to new jobs in the private sector. Should the recipient of any......
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