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IAN DONNIS

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Rhode Island in ’06: same as it ever was

Democrats on top, a casino quest, and a dose of corruption
Imagine a year when the Narragansett Indians were energetically pitching a casino, cynical Rhode Islanders had plenty of reason to reinforce their jaundiced views, and state house Democrats maintained the upper hand over hapless Republican opponents without even breaking a sweat.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 20, 2006

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Former Cicilline chief of staff Mello to take GTECH post

City watch
Michael P. Mello is about to take a prime new job — as GTECH’s senior director for global government relations.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 20, 2006

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Truce offers hope for preserving Pawtucket train station

Outside Providence
For decades, the Beaux Arts train station has sat idle on the Pawtucket-Central Falls line, a reminder of a bygone era of more elegant transportation.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 20, 2006

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Rhode Island’s man of mystery

 Projo reporter Mark Arsenault carves a budding sideline in fiction
The hard-luck obit writer has just made his literary debut, in Gravewriter , a fast-paced mystery that represents a promising new chapter in Providence Journal reporter Mark Arsenault’s budding sideline as a fiction writer.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 14, 2006

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Violet’s rude ouster is a loss for RI

 Media
Considering Arlene Violet’s 16-year run on talk-radio in Rhode Island, not to mention her unmistakable local accent, the way in which WHJJ (920 AM) abruptly jettisoned her last week came as an unpleasant surprise.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 13, 2006

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Would the ProJo be better with local ownership?

Belo — unwilling to sell to Sundlun — seems a bit more benign than in the past
In 2003, former Governor Bruce Sundlun wrote a letter to Robert Decherd, the CEO of the Dallas-based Belo Corporation, expressing his interest in restoring local ownership of the Providence Journal.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 07, 2006

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Olneyville Holiday Art Sale renews ill feeling for development critics

City watch
Feelings about increasing development on Providence’s West Side remain quite raw in some quarters, as evidenced by the dissonance over the “Olneyville Holiday Art Sale” planned this Saturday, December 9, at Rising Sun Mills.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 06, 2006

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Concern grows on downtown demo

City watch
Almost two years after plans were announced for 32-story luxury condo tower at 110 Westminster St., construction is expected to finally begin on the project.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 29, 2006

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A force for change

Phil West bids farewell after an eventful 18 years at common cause
Arriving in 1988 as the corrupt misdeeds of then-Governor Edward DiPrete were bursting into public view, H. Philip West Jr. picked an opportune time to take the helm of Common Cause of Rhode Island.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 21, 2006

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Thanksgiving thoughts on a few of those with reasons to be thankful

Reflections  
With so much deprivation in the world, there’s something perverse about the Red Sox paying more than $51 million just for the right to negotiate with 26-year-old Japanese pitching standout Daisuke Matsuzaka.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 21, 2006

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Déjà vu all over again for RI GOP

Carcieri faces failure in having fostered a real two-party system
Lincoln Chafee should be the next head of the Rhode Island Republican Party.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 15, 2006

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The national GOP could take some tips from Chafee

Last of the moderates
Given Washington’s prevailing partisan gridlock in the late ’90s, George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign pledges — to be a uniter, not a divider, and to pursue a humble foreign policy — struck Lincoln Chafee as harbingers of something better.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 15, 2006

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Buy nothing day strikes a blow for compassion

Anti-Consumerism
The local incarnation of Buy Nothing Day has grown each year and it continues to get more rooted.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 15, 2006

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Whitehouse rides the Democratic tide; Fogarty falls short

Talking politics
For Sheldon Whitehouse, claiming the US Senate seat held by two Chafees over 30 years came down to being the right man in the right place at the right time.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 08, 2006

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Appetite vanishes for vetting “editorial mysteries” on casino switch

As the ProJo turns
Although someone on the Providence Journal ’s editorial board wanted to offer a published explanation of the newspaper’s dramatic and unacknowledged recent reversal in endorsing the Harrah’s Entertainment-Narragansett Indian casino, the ensuing editorial never made it into the print version of the ProJo .
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 08, 2006

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Campaign winners and sinners

A pre-election dissection of the tasty, the terrible, and the in-between
It’s almost all over but the counting.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 01, 2006

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A curious editorial switch on the Harrah’s casino

As the ProJo turns
Reporters at the Providence Journal were among those taken by surprise when the paper, in an abrupt and unacknowledged reversal of its long-held position, editorialized on Sunday, October 22, in favor of the proposed Harrah’s Entertainment-Narragansett Indian casino.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 01, 2006

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Separated at birth

The partisan difference is the big thing dividing Chafee and whitehouse   
Six years ago, when Lincoln Chafee won the US Senate seat to which he’d been appointed after his father’s death, it wouldn’t have been surprising if Sheldon Whitehouse approached him during the victory celebration at Providence Marriott to offer his congratulations.
By IAN DONNIS  |  October 25, 2006

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Gadfly Driver brings independent challenge to Langevin

Talking politics
While US Senator Lincoln Chafee is fond of likening himself to the Independent Man atop the State House, Rod Driver might have an even better claim.
By IAN DONNIS  |  October 25, 2006

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The battle of Rhode Island

Fogarty and Carcieri sharpen their competing visions for the state
Heading into the home stretch of the 2006 gubernatorial race, Lieutenant Governor Charles Fogarty has cause for hope and reason for concern.
By IAN DONNIS  |  October 18, 2006
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