Ken Bredemeier Last updated on: July 25, 2016 3:17 PM U.S. Democrats open their national convention Monday, set to affirm former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, but embroiled in controversy over leaked emails that show how party leaders sought to ease her path to the nomination by […]Load more...
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By: Carmen Russo CRANSTON, R.I. – Latino Public Radio broadcasted live coverage of Hillary Clinton’s first appearance with her newly announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. The presumptive Democratic nominee introduced Kaine, a fellow Democrat and former governor of Virginia, during a rally Saturday at Florida International University in Miami. LPR broke the news […]Load more...
By: Carmen Russo PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Providence VA Medical Center celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony Friday morning for its new intensive care unit (ICU) and transportation facility for sterile supplies. Funding for the improvement projects was secured by U.S. Senator Jack Reed, who helped include $163 billion for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the […]Load more...
By: Carmen Russo PROVIDENCE, R.I. – In two years, nonprofit group Dominicanos USA (DUSA) registered more than 30,000 Dominican Americans to vote in Rhode Island. In its first year of existence, the nonprofit exceeded its goal of registering 100,000 new voters in New York and Rhode Island. As the group continues to encourage the two […]Load more...
By: Carmen Russo PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Voting equipment in Rhode Island will undergo a series of upgrades during the presidential elections this fall. At a press conference Thursday morning, Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea announced the use of technologies such as online voter registration, electronic poll books and modernized scanners to count ballots and deliver […]Load more...
By Carmen Russo PROVIDENCE, RI – At a press conference in the State House Library today, Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea demonstrated the state’s new voting systems to Governor Raimondo, legislative leaders, elections officials and community representatives. “Voting equipment is Democracy’s infrastructure. When I ran for office, I pledged to Rhode Islanders that I […]Load more...
By JIM MALEWITZ TEXAS TRIBUNE Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. law prohibiting racial discrimination in elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed previous rulings that the 2011 voter ID law — which stipulates the types of photo identification election officials can and cannot accept at […]Load more...
*Statement by Cranston City Council City-Wide candidate Lammis J. Vargas* Cranston, RI – «Only days after announcing my candidacy for City Council and being endorsed by the Cranston City Democratic Committee, I became ill, had to be hospitalized and was diagnosed with APL Leukemia. I have always fought for what I believe in and will […]Load more...
(Photo Credit: Grant Miller) VOA – An aide to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says she made a mistake in writing his wife Melania’s tribute to him this week by including identical phrases from a speech Michelle Obama gave supporting her husband Barack Obama’s 2008 run for the U.S. presidency. For two days, the Trump […]Load more...
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