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House Committee considers straight ticket legislation

2:11 PM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)
By Jack Perry    Email

PROVIDENCE -- The House Judiciary Committee is considering legislation that would ban straight ticket voting in Rhode Island elections. Rhode Island is in a minority of states that allows straight ticket voting, which lets voters select candidates entirely from the......

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Keeping up with the presidential primary in R.I.

2:42 PM Tue, Mar 04, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl Voters wait in line to cast their primary ballots today at the South Kingstown High School. Certain words are echoing around the state of Rhode Island as voters turn out for the presidential primary.......

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Presidential primary coverage on projo.com

7:18 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Projo.com will be on the job throughout the day Tuesday and into the night as Rhode Islanders go to the polls for what may become a historic presidential primary for the nation's smallest state. We'll be posting information about what's......

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Post-primary parties are on, no matter who wins

6:04 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Win or lose, there will be campaign parties going on in the Ocean State tomorrow night after the polls close. On the Republican side: Supporters of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will get together at the home of David B.......

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Bay State politicos stump today in Ocean State

5:57 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

He's a Massachusetts senator, but John Kerry was in Providence and Newport today. He's the former mayor of Boston and former ambassador to the Vatican, but Raymond Flynn was in Providence today. The neighboring Bay State -- which held its......

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More mail-in ballots, fewer polling places for R.I. primary

2:29 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Andrea Panciera    Email

With at least three times as many ballots coming in by mail for this presidential primary than in years past, the state Board of Elections has its work cut out for it today and tomorrow. Robert Kando, the executive director......

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Bills would close R.I. polling places an hour earlier

2:24 PM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

PROVIDENCE -- Rhode Islanders will have until 9 p.m. to cast their ballots in Tuesday's presidential primary. But at least one lawmaker believes that's too late. Rep. John Patrick Shanley of South Kingstown has filed a bill calling for an......

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Kerry makes surprise stop at Newspaper Guild Follies

9:33 AM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

PROVIDENCE — Guests at the Providence Newspaper Guild’s 35th annual Follies Friday got more celebrity star power than usual out of the night’s much-anticipated mystery guest. Instead of the local political flavor-of-the-month that tends to grace the stage at the......

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Carcieri holds fundraiser

9:32 AM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

And back to the local political front… Governor Carcieri’s political coffers got a much-needed boost Thursday night at a fundraiser at East Providence’s Metacomet Country Club. The event drew about 50 people, and more importantly, about $50,000 in donations (though......

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9:29 AM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Official severing ties In hiring Republican John Robitaille to replace Steve Kass as his communications director, Governor Carcieri is bringing aboard the president of the Perspective Communications Group, a video-production and event management company that, according to its Web page,......

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No rules changes

9:23 AM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

The debate over proposed changes to the House rules was put to rest last week when Rules Committee Chairwoman Rep. Eileen S. Naughton, D-Warwick, announced that she would not hold hearings on any rule changes this session. “After consultation with......

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Book signing by Chafee

9:20 AM Mon, Mar 03, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee will discuss and sign his new memoir at 7 p.m. on April 3 at the Warwick Barnes & Noble. The book is titled Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President. The......

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