With early voting for the Sept. 9 primary set to begin next week, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Sue AnderBois on Tuesday announced her campaign’s first television ad, backed by a six-figure broadcast ad buy across Rhode Island. The 30-second spot titled “Deliver” was filmed in Roger Williams Park in Providence and shows the Ward […]
With less than a month before early voting begins for Rhode Island state and local primaries, candidates are pounding the pavement and packing in the public events in the hopes of gaining voters’ support — and potentially, donations. Second-quarter campaign finance reports were due to the Rhode Island Board of Elections by 11:59 p.m. on […]
By Rhode Island standards, the Democratic primary for the lieutenant governor’s job is a packed one. Yet the five-candidate contest for the seat currently occupied by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos has received somewhat scant attention, WPRI 12 politics editor Ted Nesi remarked to four of the candidates shortly before the cameras rolled on a debate […]
“Bring Chan home!” That was the chant of more than 100 demonstrators outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office off Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick Wednesday afternoon. They were demanding the release of Chansareth Hong, a Cambodian refugee who has lived in Providence since arriving as an infant in the 1970s. “We want […]
