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From the Young Dems : As the primary season comes to an end and we get closer to the Democratic National Convention in August - the RI Young Democrats are preparing for a busy summer and fall. We hope you'll join us at our next meeting: TONIGHT, Tuesday...
Kudos + congrats to my friend Matt, an occasional Phoenix contributor, who graduates this week from Roger Williams Law School. The RI Populist was today among the winners of the Metcalf Diversity in Media Award (named for former ProJo publisher Michael...
Kim's got the scoop on where local Obama supporters will be tonight: After a short meeting tonight, beginning at 8:00PM , the RI Young Democrats will be watching the Pennsylvania Primary returns. Please join us on this exciting night for all Democrats...
From the Young Dems : We hope you can join us at our next meeting, which will be held . . . on Tuesday, April 22nd at 8:00PM. The meeting will be held at the Cactus Grille, located at 800 Allens Avenue in Providence We will be discussing a number of important...
As is customary in the Best issue, we at the Phoenix profile some people doing exemplary work around Rhode Island. The winners this time include Ramon Martinez , Bill Harley , Bob Fusaro , and Ren Whitaker. Like most people, Ren Whitaker had never felt...
Speaking of Chafee, he has declined to sign on with the Moderate Party of Rhode Island , main Moderate Ken Block tells me, but Block has enlisted the backing of former attorney general Arlene Violet, my regular co-panelist on Newsmakers. In hindsight...
The Moderate Party's Ken Block just e-mailed with some poll findings: The people of Rhode Island are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the performance of the General Assembly and both major political parties in solving the state’s problems, and nearly...
Here are the details: The College Democrats of Rhode Island o nvite you to join them for their Kick-off Fundraiser Thursday, March 27th, 2008, 6 -9 P.M. A speaking program, including the debut of our new website and the call for our first state-wide convention...
Labor activist and rabble-rouser Patrick Crowley is live-blogging from the Take Back America 2008 , a progressive convention in Washington, DC. Pat sends word that he can also be heard on the radio .
I checked out the scene last night at Lupo's. Here's a brief report I wrote for this week's Phoenix: There were the makings of a celebration as the What Cheer? Brigade unleashed its joyous cacophony amid hundreds of Barack Obama supporters at Lupo’s Heartbreak...
I haven't seen anything from the Clinton campaign on where it will be tonight -- perhaps at their headquarters. Here's the word from the Obama folk: PROVIDENCE , RI – After an unprecedented four day “Get Out the Vote” effort, during which thousands of...
Speaking of delegates, voters in the First Congressional District have the opportunity to cast tallies for Joseph M. Fernandez , Jeff Padwa , and Rhoades Alderson , three of the key figures in Obama's RI campaign. The trio helped to get things moving...
Members of the Rhode Island Young Democrats are among the delegates running on today's primary ballot: For Senator Clinton CD1: Jennifer Claire Paolino Meghan Grady CD2: Andy Andujar James A. Cenerini Amy E. Gabarra Mark S. Weiner For Senator Obama CD1...
Very curious that the ProJo skips any endorsement today, even on the Republican side, for Tuesday's primary. In related news, -- Brown's Jen Lawless is out with a poll showing 42 percent of respondents for Clinton, 37 percent for Obama, and a whopping...
UPDATE II: TEDDY IN TOWN TOMORROW: PROVIDENCE , RI – The Obama campaign announced today that Senator Edward M. Kennedy will travel to Rhode Island to campaign for Barack Obama tomorrow, Friday February 29th. Congressman Patrick Kennedy and Attorney General...
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