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R.I. Senate sets one-day session Tuesday

10:04 PM Sun, Jun 28, 2009 | | Write a comment
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the legislative Web site signaled the likelihood of a Senate session on Monday, the chamber's leaders have decided instead to return to work at 4 p.m. Tuesday, for a one-day session, and then possibly not return......

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 Tags  Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline   General Assembly   Senate   Twin River  

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Silva named to judicial selection panel

6:16 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | | Write a comment
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By Katie Mulvaney PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former legal counsel for the Rhode Island State Lottery Commission is the newest member of the nine-member panel that helps select the state's judges. Governor Carcieri chose Robert M. Silva, of Middletown, from......

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R.I. lawmakers pass bill allowing Woonsocket dress code

6:55 PM Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Tuesday night voted 64 to 4 to approve a bill allowing the Woonsocket School Committee to establish a dress code for public-school students. The bill, already passed by the Senate,......

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R.I. House Finance frenzy as two dozen budget articles pass

6:00 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The annual frenzy continued last week in Room 35. The House Finance Committee on Wednesday unveiled and approved its 2010 budget, racing through two dozen complex budget articles that had been released to......

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 Tags  RI House Finance Committee   Robert A. Watson   Steven M. Costantino  

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Carcieri: 'There is no job' for R.I. lieutenant governor

5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
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By Steve Peoples Journal State House Bureau The political shots last week were not limited to the House Finance Committee. Talk radio listeners got a treat when WPRO host John DePetro asked Governor Carcieri about Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts' push......

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Larry Valencia new president of RI's Operation Clean Government

5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau An unsuccessful '08 candidate for a South County seat in the Rhode Island legislature has taken over the reins of the citizens' advocacy group Operation Clean Government. Larry Valencia was elevated to the......

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 Tags  Arthur C. "Chuck" Barton III   Larry Valencia   Operation Clean Government  

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Union president Reback wants to officiate at aide's wedding

5:59 AM Mon, Jun 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
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By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau As president of the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers & Health Professionals, Marcia Reback spends many waking hours at the State House, but has never had occasion to be personally named in a......

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 Tags  Marcia Reback   Maureen G. Martin   Rhode Island Federation of Teachers & Health Professionals  

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Appearing on '700 Club,' Carcieri details stance on gay marriage

8:07 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network's hit The 700 Club late Thursday night, Governor Carcieri detailed to the religious station his now familiar stance in opposition to gay marriage. The segment -- essentially......

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Photo: Debate may be mock for these teens, but issues are real

boysgirlsconf.jpg 4:57 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Providence Journal photo / Bob Thayer Mock Senate President Sarah Moffitt, center, a senior from The Prout School in Wakefield, looks for a ruling from Timothy Sebring, also a senior from Prout, the Parliamentarian, during a mock Senate debate......

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 Tags  Boys & Girls State Conference   Providence RI   RI State House  

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Photo: Past and present merge at State House

housetalk.jpg 9:54 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Providence Journal photo / Connie Grosch In a visual echo of politicians past, State Rep. David Caprio, D-Narragansett, left, talks with Rep. Kenneth Carter, D-North Kingstown, before a closed-door caucus begins Tuesday in the lounge of the R.I. House......

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 Tags  RI General Assembly   RI State House  

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New poll: More RIers oppose than support gay marriage

1:43 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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A new poll funded by a group opposed to gay marriage has found that a plurality of Rhode Islanders oppose same-sex unions. Forty-three percent of respondents said they oppose same-sex marriage, while 36 percent supported the idea, according to the......

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 Tags  gay marriage   National Organization for Marriage   poll  

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Photo: Last day of business for mayors at hand

2mayors.jpg 11:55 AM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | | Write a comment
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Providence Journal photo / Mary Murphy Douglas H. Palmer, mayor of Trenton, N.J., left, and Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta, Ga., who is chairman of the nominating committee, talk Monday before the start of the business/plenary session on the......

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 Tags  Atlanta GA   mayors   Providence RI   Trenton NJ  

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