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BREAKING: Senate has passed ban on hIgh capacity magazines on a 25-to-11 vote
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The women who helped get the trio of gun bills to the governor’s desk.
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It's official:
@GovDanMcKee
is issuing executive order requiring mask wearing in RI schools, when school resumes.
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At the State House: Moms Demand Action volunteers at rally, cheering push for assault weapons ban.
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Another resignation from the RI Heritage Hall of Fame in the wake of deeply contested vote to induct former Trump aide Michael Flynn. A segment from retired URI Prof. Roberta Feather's Dec. 26 letter of resignation:
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INBOX: "VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Seven Moms Demand Action Volunteers Won Elections In Rhode Island":
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Asked if he will run for CD1, Republican state Rep.
@BrianCNewberry
told me: “I'd prefer not to be bankrupt and divorced, intriguing as the idea is.”
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BREAKING: RI Health Dept. opens door for COVID-infected staff to work at hospitals, nursing homes via
@projo
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The scene outside the
@RIHouseofReps
just before the starting bell for rare Friday session: “Time to Vote”
#Guns
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The family of Victor Walter Butler, 99, the last living RI Tuskegee Airman, at the State House for reading/passage of a resolution honoring his “distinguished & heroic service” 1941-46.
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Later today,
@repmorgan
will go before House Education w/bill to ban certain words - such as "supremacy" - and The New York Times' 1619 Project, in particular, from classrooms. Also mention of "sexual preference, gender dysphoria, or sexual lifestyles."
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URI president calls to revoke honorary degrees bestowed on Mike Flynn and Rudy Giuliani:
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BREAKING: The
@RIHouse
has approved legislatin to ban large-capacity firearm magazines capable of holding ore than 10rounds of amuunition.
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CONFIRMED: A man with the same name/DOB as President Trump's press secretary
@SeanSpicer
is registered to vote in two states.
Story coming.
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Dean Street, Providence. First time I’ve seen gas below $3 in awhile.
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Explain this again please: “Rhode Island is 50th among the 50 states in percentage of residents who have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. “
**Sources: The New York Times, The COVID Tracking Project, Johns Hopkins University. Data is current through Friday.
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Providence Police are not helping by blocking access to every street from Blackstone Blvd to Waterman Ave to Henderson Bridge to East Prov. Forced me to turn around back to downtown. I asked: how do I get to bridge w/cruiser blocking? Cops: “I don’t know.”
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BREAKING: Ri Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced today that it has denied the permit application of Medrecycler-RI Inc. to build a medical waste-to-energy plant at 1600 Division Road in West Warwick.
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@GovDanMcKee
signs legislation allowing state funded health plans to cover abortions sought by state employees, Medicaid recipients.
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This is a wonderful way to remember BIll Rappleye.
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Baby news!!!!
RI Treasurer
@SethMagaziner
and his wife, Julia McDowell, are expecting their 1st child in November. Congrats!
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Affordable? This is the WPRI breakdown of the affordable housing carve-out in “Superman” financing/public subsidy proposal:
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Lesley Stahl here to interview Gina Raimondo for 60 Minutes. (This was as close as we were allowed to get.)
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I’ve never paid for govt. emails. We did this time bec the info was so vital to public’s understanding of bridge fiasco. Not pleased to find out 1)McKee/RIDOT charged us more than at least 1other media outlet 2) for records Feds also seeking.
#BadForm
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I work. I can afford to pay $24.99 for a rapid test kit at CVS, ahead of visiting older relatives. Just did. Could someone as a public service tell me, my followers, where RIslanders can get free Covid rapid tests they can take at home?
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Conservative wing of RI GOP raffling guns, including AR-15, to raise money for 2022 campaigns:
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Freshman Democratic Rep.
@BrandonPotterRI
calls for resignation of Republican Rep.
@justinpriceRI
after his run of Tweets, espousing theory that "Antifa" - not Trump supporters - stormed US Capitol, and acknowledging he was in Washington at time (tming/activities unknown).
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House Speaker
@JoeShekarchi
has removed GOP Rep. Robt Quattrocci from the House Committee on State Govt.&Elections immediately. His statement:
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The full slate: Governor, LtGov, Secretary of State, AG, Treasurer. One by one calling for passage of an assault weapons ban this year.
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Moving along...After a year together in a bunker, kitty and I have almost the same color hair though she’s got a bit more white.
#Pandemicgrey
. It’s a thing. Can’t wait to see people again!
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Very emotional moment in the
@RISenate
as bill long championed by SenateMajorityWhip
@MaryellnGoodwin
to eliminate co-payments on colorectal cancern screening is named by her colleagues in her honor. W/earlier screening, she said, her own cancer might have been detected earlier.
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All of this since August? An evolving story.
See the damaged that caused the closure of the Washington Bridge
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Former Rep. Maria Lopes was surrounded by flowers and accolades Thursday when the
@RIHouseofReps
honored her as the first Black female legislator in RI.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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INBOX: R.I. House Republicans to Submit Floor Amendment Thursday to End State School Mask Mandate
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I am going to miss Twitter if it ceases to exist as a platform for the free exchange of ideas and information. I have learned much from reading the Tweets of others, with real names sharing verifiable information.
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From Instagram to Twitter: “The right to bare arms” solidarity movement on display at the RI State House.
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Former RI Health Director Alexander-Scott has new job as senior executive for the Assn of State and Territorial Health Officials, which represents the public health agencies of every state, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories. via
@projo
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BREAKING: The RI Democratic Women's Caucus has elected the Rev. Donnie Anderson - a transgender woman - as its new chair:
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Providence Mayor Smiley at State House lobbying for legislation to allow city to tax property owned by non profit eds & meds leased for commercial purposes.
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Two of 3 highest ranked House Democratic leaders co-sponsor bill to raise top RI income tax rate from 5.99 to 8.99%
** Alzate, Amore, Blazejewski, Williams, Speakman, Giraldo, Slater, Kazarian, Potter, Diaz
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So...Based on the primary results, a politically astute observer pegs the number of progressives headed to the 38-member Senate in January at 16. That's 16 out of a 33-member Dem caucus, enough to make demands, w/hold the 2/3 needed for budget approval, make deals w/ the GOP.
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Listen. The sounds of glorious Block Island. Can you see the seals popping their heads up?
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A fighter, a cancer survivor, Providence Senator Maryellen Goodwin was back at the State House on Thursday - and happy to be there.
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From
@GayleGoldin
:
"Moments ago, I submitted my resignation to Secretary Gorbea and Senate President Ruggerio, effectively immediately. I’m honored to be joining the Biden-Harris administration today as Senior Advisor, US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau."
More to come
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"RI doesn't have a gun violence problem. It has a crime problem" - Republican Rep. Patrician Morgan. "The criminals, they'll keep their magazines."
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BREAKING: "The investigation concerns the allegation that false claims for payment for services and/or false statements in support of such payments have been submitted to the U.S. govt," according to demand letter from US Attorney GovDanMcKee's office made public tonight
#bridge
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We are back after a beauty-filled hiking tour of the Lake District in England. Logged 50-plus miles! Spent 10 days disconnected (most of the time) from electronic devices except for photo taking. One of the most fun things I have ever done! Did we miss anything?
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Would the RI public welcome the reinstatement of online viewing/online participation in government meetings?
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More calls for
@justinPriceR
's resignation. The letter - released by the College Democrats of RI - speaks for itself. List of signers follows:
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I am sharing this because it is such a good example of the way some people talk to reporters, women and especially women of a certain age on Twitter. Thank you Donna Gibbs aka
@GibbyGalDonna
for today's example.
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Breaking: : First gun bill of the year clears Senate Judiciary on 6-0 vote: 3D gun ban.
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Credit to Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon for bringing a little humor to the situation:
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NOT good news from East Bay commuters. This bridge has been under construction on-and-off since I moved to RI in 1979. How did it get this bad?
.
@ridotnews
director Peter Alviti says a number of scenarios for Washington Bridge repairs are on table. Including full reconstruction
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After mass resignationS, RI Heritage Hall of Fame 'defers' Flynn's induction "to a more peaceful and rational time." What we know.
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YooHoo
@AGNeronha
The private company that manages operations for the heavily taxpayer-subsidized RI Convention Center is refusing to disclose salaries again.
Do we really have to file a brand new complaint and battle this for a year?
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The video and the story have gone national:
I'm a reproductive rights organizer & State Senate candidate. Last night, after speaking at our Roe rally, my Republican opponent – a police officer – violently attacked me.
This is what it is to be a Black woman running for office. I won't give up.
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BREAKING:
Statement from Speaker Shekarchi and President Ruggerio:
“We are committed to passing meaningful gun reform legislation this session. We have been working on this issue with the sponsors and committee chairs for several months.”
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Primary day here in Rhode Island: how are things going at the polling stations? Any issues?
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The reaction on passage of “EACA”: the “Equality in Abortion Coverage Act” by the House Judiciary Committee. Now on to full
@RIHouseofReps
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How is it no one has created a bumper sticker that says: “I (barely) survived the Apponaug Circulator at rush hour.”
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Sen. Cano, raised Catholic and pro-life - and currently pregnant, tells colleagues: "My faith is very important to me...however, ii also believe Roe V. Wade is the law of the land and I cannot impose my faith on others."
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BREAKING: Judge rejects firefighters union's attempt to block RI vaccine mandate
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Seeing big PR push for former RI
@GovRaimondo
current
@SecRaimondo
ahead of
@60Minutes
piece airing tomorrow. Usually a reason.
#instagram
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The Governor's office fought to keep this email secret. Why the Journal fought back, and what it says
More to come
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This was the tribute to veteran newsman Jim Taricani that
@RISpeaker
Mattiello read aloud at the start of today House session:
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A challenger has emerged to Senate President Dominick Ruggerio's leadership team from the progressive wing of the Rhode Island Democratic Party: state Sen. Gayle Goldin.
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Judge Frank Caprio and his son, former Rep. David Caprio, at the State House, shortly after Senate Committee endorsed David’s appointment to RI Bd of Education on a 6-to-1 vote. On to the full Senate.
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Good morning.
1. The races that were frozen last night are still frozen.
2. Did you ever see a more gracious concession than
@RepMoira_Jayne
's? In lots of years covering RI Politics, I have not.
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BREAKING: Raimondo spox tells
@projo
“ upon reflection, we’re going to open up the gala at the state house to credentialed media. we’ll send a formal media advisory with information for credentials early next week.”
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Too bad from this reporter's perspective that RI cannot continue with hybrid meetings that give people a chance to testify remotely, instead of waiting their turn to testify at the State House for hours in many cases, on hardbacked plastic chairs.
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Dead people. Dead people signing nominating papers for one of the GOP presidential candidates seeking place on RI primary ballot:
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Ashley Kalus aka Weinzweig was an unaffiliated voter in Monroe County, Fla. until March 23, 2022 - the day after she announced her GOP bid for governor in R.I. she voted in Fla. in November 2020, election officials there confirm while taking a homestead exemption in Illinois.
A question for the GOP candidate for RI governor:
Are you still registered to vote in Florida?
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FWIW: Filtering out all the noise, here's what I know for certain about the Mueller report.
Nothing.
I would very much like to read it.
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BREAKING: Governor Raimondo has signed into law the newly passed legislation to “codify the status quo “ on abortion in Rhode Island.
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AARP describes Rhode Island's current vaccination plan as: "Inexplicable, life threatening and unacceptable.”
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The newly appointed Deputy House Speaker: Ray Hull. Day job: Providence police officer.
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UPDATE from Republican state Sen. Jessica de la Cruz: “I'm running for CD2”
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Lifespan has created a crisis in my home by compelling both of our Coastal Medical primary care doctors to retire, thrusting us into the growing pool of frantic patients making call after call to the shrinking # of doctors who are NOT taking new patients. More
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So here's the thing:
Numbers are numbers.
One of those unnamed people currently in the hospital with Covid is my nephew.
It's not over.
Here's the context ahead of
@GovDanMcKee
2pm announcement on masks - COVID is on the run in RI amid vaccination campaign + warm weather
New cases down to 139
Positivity down to 1.2%
Under 100 people hospitalized
Just 2 additional deaths
600,000 vaccinated
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RIDOT required employees connected to Washington Bridge contracts to sign NDAs. Why?
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Well. That’s something. A Republican state legislator -Justin Price- has blocked me from seeing his Tweets.
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FWIW: With deadline to submit signatures in 2days, the Biden team has already submitted more than the 1,000 signatures needed o get on the RI presidential primary ballot. The Republicans, including former President Trump?
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Another resignation from the board of the Patrick Conley-led RI Heritage Hall of Fame in the wake of the vote to induct Michael Flynn. Who's left? Dated Dec. 26, the latest resignation letter reads, in part:
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Gun bill signing ceremony. Noteworthy: all five of RI’s top statewide officers are united behind these bills to ban guns in schools/straw purchases
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"Urgent matter"
The text we've all been waiting to see: DOT Director Peter Alviti to
@GovDanMcKee
on Monday Dec. 11:
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