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December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008 Archives
12:58 PM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry  Email
AP photo / Charles Dharapak Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., arrives for a town hall style campaign event in Peterborough, N.H., Saturday.......
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12:24 PM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
AP photo / M. Spencer Green Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally on Saturday in Nashua, N.H.......
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11:23 AM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
AP photo / Elise Amendola Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts to applause as she campaigns with her daughter, Chelsea, in Penacook, N.H., Saturday.......
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10:46 AM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Donna McGarry Email
Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, signs autographs after holding a town meeting at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH.......
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10:45 AM Sat, Jan 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Governor Donald Carcieri arrives at a campaign event in Derry, N.H., to support Mitt Romney.......
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5:48 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP Photo Republican presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee plays with Lisa Guyer, lead singer for local band Mama Kicks, during a campaign stop in Henniker, N.H., today. Yesterday in Iowa, where he emerged the GOP caucus......
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3:55 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is surrounded during a campaign stop at Hollis Pharmacy in Hollis, N.H., today. Complicating the presidential primary next week in New Hampshire is the presence of a large bloc of......
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3:37 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Republican presidential hopeful, leaves a campaign stop in Portsmouth, N.H., today as he and other candidates tour the Granite State in advance of its presidential primary on Tuesday. Romney, who finished......
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3:30 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
AP photo Sen. Barack Obama takes the stage at a rally at the Concord High School gymn today. CONCORD, N.H. -- Without mentioning any of his opponents by name, presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama continued with his theme of......
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2:37 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Providence Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst has filed his Sunday Journal column on local reaction to the Iowa caucuses -- including from the brother-in-law of Barack Obama, a coach at Brown University -- two days early on projo.com. Here's......
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2:08 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
CONCORD, N.H. -- Two thousand people sheathed in fleece and down have crowded Concord High School gym for the arrival of Sen. Barack Obama, who trumped Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in yesterday's Iowa Democratic caucus and now sets sight on......
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1:23 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Two Concord High School students hang a flag today inside the New Hampshire school's gymnasium in anticipation of a visit from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, who scored a Democratic victory in the Iowa caucuses......
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1:16 PM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton poses for a photograph after addressing about 400 supporters at Nashua Municipal Airport today, as presidential candidates flock to New Hampshire for the country's first-in-the nation primary next week.......
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10:33 AM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
The recall election between Rehoboth, Mass. incumbent Selectman Christopher P. Morra Sr. and Gerald V. Schwall is Monday. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in all three precincts. The winner will finish the second half of......
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9:14 AM Fri, Jan 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
Journal photo/ Gretchen Ertl Jessie Sabrino, 18, of Bethesda, Md., a campaign volunteer for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, carries an armful of signs in preparation for Sen. Clinton's arrival early this morning at Nashua Municipal Airport. Sen. Clinton finished......
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1:26 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
A bill introduced in the General Assembly by Democratic lawmakers would ask voters to amend the state constitution to let the lieutenant governor fill in for the governor when the governor is away. The proposed legislation comes in the aftermath......
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12:25 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE -- The Democrat-led House Finance Committee meets at 2 p.m. today on Republican Governor Carcieri's layoff proposals, on the third day of a legislative session that leading lawmakers say will be consumed with shoring up a gaping budget hole.......
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12:00 PM Thu, Jan 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
PROVIDENCE – It’s day three for the new session of the General Assembly, and on the calendar for today is a resolution to create a House commission to review a proposal. That proposal, however, is one that could bring two-thirds......
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9:28 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Christmas Eve was not a merry time in the State House. There were no family dinners, no Christmas carols. And state workers were on ladders in the rotunda, dismantling the state Christmas tree. They had stripped the tree of nearly......
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9:26 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
It was the day before Christmas and all through the Department of Administration’s Conference Room B, not a creature was stirring except for state Personnel Administrator Anthony Bucci. Bad poetry aside, Bucci was indeed the only one to show up......
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9:24 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Christmas brought a brief reprieve for those in state government facing layoffs. Had the next action date on the Carcieri administration’s layoff calendar not been lifted, letters would potentially have gone out on Dec. 24 informing dozens of employees that......
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9:18 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Legislators who missed Frank Ferri’s pre-Christmas swearing in need not fear. YouTube is here. Footage of Ferri’s inauguration, along with a smattering of hearings from the last session, are featured on the popular video-streaming Web site, courtesy of Capitol TV.......
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9:17 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Santa brought Political Scene a surprise this year. When former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee failed in his reelection attempt, one of the casualties was his gregarious spokeswoman Debbie Rich, a former radio personality perhaps best known during the holiday......
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9:16 AM Mon, Dec 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
House Minority Leader Robert Watson, R-East Greenwich, will be busy with tomorrow’s opening of the 2008 General Assembly session, but his heart and mind will be elsewhere, nervously watching the polls in Iowa in advance of the Thursday GOP caucuses.......
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