Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, the nation’s only Independent governor, said this morning that he expects to face a challenge from state General Treasurer Gina Raimondo in 2014. Chafee was mum on whether he’ll switch parties and become a Democrat,...
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Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee speaks during day one of the Democratic National Convention on September 4, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Chafee Hears Providence Footsteps
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Moody's Investors Service Inc. headquarters in New York.
Pension Poetry: Moody’s Haiku
Marcia Van Wagner, a senior analyst at Moody’s Investors Service speaking at a conference in Providence, Rhode Island, has so far offered the most succinct description of the pension woes facing states and cities. She opened her remarks at the Bond Buyer Symposium...
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People celebrate in front of the White House on Nov. 7, 2012.
Reddest Reds, Bluest Blues: Obama-Romney Contest
Now that we’ve left behind the obsessive coverage and minute slicing-and-dicing of the swing states that constituted the end-all and be-all of the 2012 presidential election, we were left wondering: Where did the landslides occur? Defining that as any place where one of...
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Sen. Jack Reed, left, and Sen. Sherrod Brown on the Capitol.
Reed’s Read: `Let’s Get This Done’
Sen. Jack Reed dropped in for coffee this afternoon, arriving with a reasonable amount of faith that some of the heaviest lifting required to avert the so-called fiscal cliff at year’s end will be possible in the lame-duck session after...
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U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, left, and challenger Anthony Gemma participate in the 1st Congressional District primary debate at Rhode Island College.
Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Last to Vote Before Nov. 6
It’s primary election day in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, the last states to select major-party nominees for Congress in the Nov. 6 general election. The top contest probably is in Rhode Island, where one-term Democratic Rep. David Cicilline is...
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Rhode Island Most Democratic — Utah Most Republican: Gallup
More evidence about how closely divided the nation is politically: 16 states are politically competitive, 16 lean Democratic and 18 lean Republican. That’s the finding of the Gallup Organization after quizzing 177,670 voting-age people about their political preferences in the...
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