The Nov. 7 election of five new members to the 15-person City Council shook up a legislative body that had been largely composed of long-term incumbents. At least two factors helped drive the influx of new blood: the intentions of Mayor David Cicilline '83 to change the composition of the council and ...
Students who are at least 18 years of age and registered to vote in Rhode Island are eligible to vote in today's general election. Voters must have registered at least 30 days prior to Election Day to cast ballots for local races. If registered less than 30 days before Election Day, they are eligible ...
Republican Bill Harsch's campaign for Rhode Island attorney general received an unexpected boost Wednesday following public accusations that his Democratic opponent, current Attorney General Patrick Lynch '87, lied intentionally about his involvement in the plea bargain of the owners of The Station ...
If the Rhode Island race for U.S. Senate were the Tour de France, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse would wearing the yellow jersey, as he enjoys an ever-increasing lead over Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75.
The man from Hope, Arkansas, spoke Monday night about the Democratic Party's hopes for this year's general election at the Hope Awards in downtown Providence.
Despite Brown's reputation as a politically left-leaning university, Republicans on campus are heeding the call for volunteers from the campaigns of Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75 and Gov. Don Carcieri '65. As the Nov. 7 general election nears, members of the Brown College Republicans are working behind the ...
Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75 may have steamrolled over Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, his challenger in the Sept. 12 Republican Senate primary, but he trails his Democratic opponent in the general election, former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse, by a hair.
For Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75, R-R.I., today's primary election may hinge on voter turnout in the hotly contested Democratic primaries for open Providence City Council seats. In a rare turn for Providence politics, all 15 council seats are contested - 13 of them with Democratic primaries.
There is no clear leader in the Republican Senate primary race between Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey and incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75. Now, with five days remaining before the primary election, both candidates are pulling out all the stops.
Dennis Michaud M.A. '96 Ph.D. '02, an adjunct professor of economics, announced last week he has ended his bid to challenge incumbent Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 in the Sept. 12 Republican primary after failing to collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot.
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