Rhode Island Politics Information Directory

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Kernan F. King, the Republican candidate for state general treasurer, up until Friday led Florida officials to believe he was a legal resident of that state, qualifying him for a tax break on the home he owns in ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sen. Leonidas P. Raptakis, who is running for secretary of state, is accusing the incumbent, A. Ralph Mollis, of making "absurd claims" in his TV and radio campaign ads about helping businesses and registering record ...

“I voted for this bill to help keep Rhode Island teachers on the job,” Langevin said in a statement. “Properly supporting our state's education system is the best way to reverse our current economic situation over the long term.” ...

4 Dems running to replace Kennedy debate on TV PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) The four candidates running to replace Patrick Kennedy have decried the influence of money in politics during a televised debate, but ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The four candidates running to replace Patrick Kennedy are decrying the influence of money in politics during a televised debate, but they have different views of how to change it. The debate ...

Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their Rhode Island classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will ...

Ohio and Rhode Island. The Wisconsin site can be accessed at www ... a 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for local reporting who has covered politics and government for 25 years; Tom Kertscher, who has covered courts and ...

Rhode Island, and Vermont—six currently held by GOP chief executives and three by Democrats."

T he Massachusetts unemployment rate is higher than the New England average, and above all the region’s other states except Rhode Island, new federal data showed. At 9 percent for July, the state’s ...

... extraordinary coup full of meaning for national politics. It's like they never noticed that bluer California has a Republican governor -- as does even bluer Vermont and the bluest-of-all Rhode Island. None of ...

a huge block of ice broke off of Antarctica the size of Rhode Island; another huge block of Greenland ice broke off nine times the size of Manhattan; scorching heat plagued Russia, bringing life virtually to a stand ...

Rhode Island, Washington. The MOVE Act requires states to send absentee ballots to military and overseas voters covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act no later than 45 days before an ...

a job similar to tax assessor in Rhode Island, Furst oversees homestead exemptions, a tax break available only on a primary residence. “That’s not true. Absolutely not true. I never talked to anybody down there ...