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Red Sox, Patriots license plate bill still in the bullpen

7:02 AM Mon, May 11, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Attention sports nuts: remember the plan to create Red Sox and Patriots license plates? Fear not, it hasn't dissolved, just given a temporary time out. Legislative spokesmen tell Political Scene that the bills......

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Pay raises doled out at Assembly despite tough economy

7:02 AM Mon, May 11, 2009 | | Comments (19)
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE - Despite the state's deepening budget hole, General Assembly leaders have been doling out raises to select employees, including the son of a current legislator and the brother of a former legislator.......

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GOP appeals challenge on legislative appointments

7:08 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

PROVIDENCE - Facing legal challenges to at least three of the five General Assembly candidates appointed by state GOP chairman Giovanni Cicione last week, state Republicans today filed an appeal with the state board of elections. State law allows party......

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Assembly transmits hundreds of bills to Carcieri for signing

6:53 PM Mon, Jun 30, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

The governor's office is in for a busy week. In an unusual move late Friday afternoon, the Senate transmitted a whopping 201 bills -- its entire roster of legislation approved in the final days of the session -- to......

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Candidates are distant relatives to the stars, president

5:50 PM Tue, Mar 25, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

BOSTON -- This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie. Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found......

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Clinton, Obama supporters lobby for Taveras' nod

4:40 PM Thu, Jan 31, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

Providence lawyer Angel Taveras’ phone did not stop ringing this afternoon in the wake of John Edwards' departure from the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Taveras, Edwards Rhode Island campaign chairman, took calls from supporters of New York Sen.......

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Former CIA agent to speak at Brown

4:25 PM Thu, Nov 29, 2007 | | Comments (4)
By Karen Bordeleau    Email

Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA agent whose leaked identity to the media led to political controversy and the conviction of a high-ranking Bush administration official on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, will signs copies of her book and......

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