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July 13, 2008 - July 19, 2008 Archives

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Some candidates don't get by without a challenge

6:54 PM Fri, Jul 18, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

Several challenges have been lodged on decisions to certify -- or not certify -- certain candidates for the Rhode Island election ballot, Secretary of State Ralph Mollis's office said. The deadline to challenge was 4 p.m. today for candidates in......

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 Tags  candidate challenges   candidates   R.I. election  

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Mexican government to honor Sen. Kennedy

3:28 PM Fri, Jul 18, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Mike McKinney    Email

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government says it will honor U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy for his defense of immigrant rights. Mexico announced Friday it will award the Massachusetts Democrat the Aguila Azteca, the highest honor the government can bestow on......

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 Tags  Aguila Azteca   immigrant rights   Mexican government   migrants   U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy  

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R.I. political aspirants seek these letters: Q. B. P

3:08 PM Thu, Jul 17, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

Q.B.P. Tomorrow, those are the most important letters of the alphabet for Rhode Island candidates, political junkies and taxpayers alike. They stand for "qualified ballot position," which means a candidate for offices small and large, from town races to Congress,......

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 Tags  QDP   qualified ballot position   Rhode Island elections   Secretary of State's Office  

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Reed bill to expand childhood cancer research becomes law

2:37 PM Thu, Jul 17, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

He turned 4 and learned he had cancer. The disease ended the life of Warwick's Benjamin Haight in August 2003. He was 9. Now, legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, R-R.I., to expand childhood cancer prevention research, inspired in......

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 Tags  Benjamin Haight   cancer legislation   child cancer research   U.S. Sen. Jack Reed   Warwick  

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It's a turf war in the crowded race for Senate District 9

2:28 PM Thu, Jul 17, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

The turf wars are under way in a crowded District 9 state Senate race, where the powerful Senate Finance Committee Chairman Stephen Alves must survive a three-way Democratic primary and a contested general election to earn an eighth consecutive term......

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 Tags  District 9 state Senate race   Michael J. Pinga   Paul Caianiello Jr.   Stephen Alves   West Warwick  

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DOT union ratifies new deal with state, despite opposition

6:22 PM Wed, Jul 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Susan Areson    Email

Another state employee union has voted to ratify a new four-year agreement with the Carcieri administration, despite what the local president describes as widespread opposition. Local 400, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, voted Tuesday 62 percent to......

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 Tags  DOT   Local 400   state employees   union contract  

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New England delegation pushes for heating help

8:20 AM Wed, Jul 16, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

WASHINGTON -- The temperature will be approaching the 90s this morning by the time members of the New England House delegation gather near the Capitol to warn about next winter's freeze - and how to help the poor to weather......

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 Tags  Congress   heating   Jack Reed   James Langevin   petroleum   President Bush  

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Harvard chooses R.I. woman as vice president for public affairs

1:28 PM Tue, Jul 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Scott MacKay    Email

Christine Heenan of East Providence, a former aide in the Bill Clinton White House, was today named vice president for government, community and public affairs at Harvard University. Heenan, 41, has been most recently president of Clarendon Group, a Providence-based......

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 Tags  Brown University   Christine Heenan   Clarendon Group   Harvard  

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Obama, McCain trade barbs over Iraq war strategies

1:23 PM Tue, Jul 15, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

WASHINGTON -- The nation's leading presidential candidates took verbal shots at each other again today over the Iraq war. Democrat Barack Obama pledged anew this morning that as president he would end the Iraq war, withdrawing American combat troops by......

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 Tags  Barack Obama   elections   Iraq war   Jack Reed   John McCain   presidential campaign  

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A voice goes silent in the State House

4:38 PM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

PROVIDENCE -- State House Room 140 is dark today. Its occupant for the last 17 years, Patricia Collins, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, according to the governor's office. Collins, 63, of West Warwick, had served as the......

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 Tags  Patricia Collins   State House  

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Reed flattered by V.P. talk but not eager for that kind of change

12:40 PM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Mike McKinney    Email

EAST PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed said this morning he was flattered by mounting speculation that he may be a vice presidential contender on Barack Obama's ticket but said he was not interested in the job. At the ribbon-cutting......

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 Tags  Barack Obama   business   East Providence   Jack Reed   manufacturing   Patrick Kennedy  

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Nader files for Rhode Island ballot as independent candidate for president

11:48 AM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Scott MacKay    Email

Ralph Nader, the onetime consumer advocate and perennial candiate for president, today filed petitions to run as an independent candidate for president in Rhode Island. Nader, 74, a Connecticut native, ran unsucessfully for president in 2000 and 2004. Nader submitted......

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 Tags  Matt Gonzalez.   presidential campaign   Ralph Nader   Rhode ISland politics  

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