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In terms of furthering the third-party cause in RI, Ken Block sends this along: This will take less than one minute of your time. The Moderate Party of Rhode Island has an important meeting next week with Rhode Island Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis...
A few weeks back, the Phoenix offered a look at the third-party presidential candidates on the RI ballot -- not much, admittedly, but more than I saw anywhere else locally. Now, writing in the Sun of Baltimore (h/t Romenesko ), journalism professor John...
From the Progressive Democrats of America , RI chapter: Annual Rhode Island Statewide PDA Meeting Well be meeting in the community room in the basement of the library. The phone number for the library is 401-455-8105. There is always plenty of on-street...
From the Young Dems : PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Young Democrats - www.riyoungdems.org - announced today the election of Meghan Grady (23, Barrington) as president, Kimberly Ahern (25, Providence) as vice-president and Eric Coury (25, East Providence...
Rhode Island, with its mighty four electoral votes, is typically on the margins of presidential politics. Yet with our own New Hampshire-style presidential primary this year, and with scores of Rhode Islanders assisting Obama's campaign in various...
Let us count the ways. 1. Dan Yorke is making a plausible case that the party, because of its utter incompetence, should cease operations for about 12 or 18 months. 2. AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer George Nee, a Democratic stalwart, recognizes the state...
It was thought that Chuck Levesque, and possibly Rod Driver, might come up short last night, but they were among the progressive General Assembly candidates who pulled it out. Matt has the details : Progressives Win Big - Progressive candidates identified...
Justin from Anchor Rising was part of the media/blog crew at the Biltmore last night, and he seemed resigned to an Obama victory even when very little of the results were in. It was a bad night for local Republicans, as I forecast last week , and Justin's...
Around the time of Governor Carcieri's economic conference, a group of Brown and RISD students will be having their own get-together, A Better World By Design -- one that also relates to economic-development, yet with a decidely different organizing...
The Providence faction of Drinking Liberally will be out in force at the Wild Colonial , 250 South Water St., Providence, starting at 8 pm.
Our ongoing fiscal nightmare complicates the quest for the green economy, the New York Times reports today. Yet a few days earlier, the paper had this : OAKLAND, Calif. — California’s energy-efficiency policies created nearly 1.5 million jobs from 1977...
-- N4N says Sox beat the Rays in six, although I really have no gut feeling other than anticipating series of close and hard-fought games. -- Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket has an opening tonight, the Museum of Small Finds, from 7-9. -- The Dominican...
As Greg Cook reports in this week's Phoenix: There are the usual ways of spelling out your support for a candidate, and then there’s this weekend’s “Bike Write for Obama.” Sarah Sandman, 28, is organizing a group “typographic bike ride” across Providence...
From the Leadership Institute , which says it has provided a nascent group of RISD conservatives with "start-up materials, recruiting resources, and training opportunities for their club members." PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Conservative philosophy...
As previously reported here : Liberal and moderate Republicans seem like natural targets for Ken Block's effort to develop a third party in Rhode Island. Linc Chafee has been talked up as possibly having a place in an Obama administration, but Block...
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