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Obama courts mayors, wins Cicilline's support

4:46 PM Fri, Jun 27, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By Mike McKinney    Email

Sen. Barack Obama may be in Unity, N.H., today cultivating party harmony, but earlier this week he was in Florida to push for another kind of togetherness. Obama traveled to Miami to address the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference......

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Raptakis takes aim at his majority leader, Paiva Weed

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By Susan Areson    Email

In the state Senate where debate is rare – and dissent even rarer – Sen. Leonidas “Lou’’ Raptakis, D-Coventry, has done the unusual. He has launched a political grenade aimed at taking out Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed,......

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Whitehouse gains time to weigh electronic surveillance bill

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By Mike McKinney    Email

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has not finished retooling the law that governs foreign intelligence surveillance, so Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has until after the Fourth of July recess to decide whether he’ll vote for it -- despite his opposition to a......

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Waiting in Unity

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By Brandie Jefferson    Email

UNITY, N.H. -- More than 1,000 people are gathered so far today in the tiny New Hampshire village of Unity in anticipation of this afternoon’s rally, when Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama –– the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee......

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Jobless in R.I.? Extended benefits await Bush's signature

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By Susan Areson    Email

WASHINGTON -- Rhode Island is among the states in line for an immediate extension of unemployment benefits provided in a bipartisan spending bill that the Senate sent last night to President Bush. Rhode Island workers who have already exhausted the......

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Candidate deadline brings accusations of backroom dealings

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By Brandie Jefferson    Email

At least five more Republicans are joining the party’s effort to crimp the Democrats’ overwhelming majority on Smith Hill. But state GOP Chairman Giovanni Cicione and Senate Finance Chairman Stephen Alves tell very different stories about how one — and......

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