PROVIDENCE — With a first quarter report showing that the state budget will be nearly $220 million in the red by June 30 if revenues and spending continue down the paths they are on, the Carcieri administration is clamping down even further on each dollar the government spends.
When divisive topics take over issues
on 11-15-2009 22:28
Politics as Usual by Jim Baron
Just when it seemed that we had put abortion behind us as the “social issue” dominating the political debate, supplanting it with same-sex marriage, it comes roaring back to life with the health care reform bill. And to bring the issue home to the Ocean State, we have the verbal fisticuffs between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Bishop Thomas Tobin.
PAWTUCKET --- When asked how it felt to be embraced by “Pat Patriot,” the official mascot of the New England Patriots, Jenks Junior High School eighth-graders Kanisha Coar and Tateana Sena admitted they were shocked and thrilled.
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