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Political Scene: Neither party nor PAC, RI co-op defies definition
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Politically, September is just around the corner.
Even as Rhode Island lawmakers exhale after Thursday s session-ending vote-a-rama, attention is already turning to unfinished business and a special back-to-school General Assembly session sometime after Labor Day.
The headline topic this fall, beyond the Senate confirming judges, is to settle the long-burning issue of marijuana legalization.
But there are more many more issues that people on Smith Hill have been working on that could return when the weather gets colder.
Charter schools
Talks on a proposed three-year moratorium on new charter schools continued until the final days of the legislative session, and with Gov. Dan McKee threatening a veto, the issue had the potential to grind business to a halt.
New push to expand early voting meets GOP pushback
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Through thick, thin, and even a pandemic that virtually shut down legislating last year, Rhode Islanders stuck by their lobbyists.
Ocean State companies and organizations spent $12.4 million in lobbying fees in 2020, according to a summary of reports filed with Secretary of State
Nellie Gorbea s office.
That s around $100,000 more than state-registered lobbyists collected in 2019, despite being mostly exiled from the State House last March and told that almost no new policies would pass.
Good work if you can get it. And maybe not as surprising as it may seem.
After all, since the virus struck and Congress stepped in with more than a billion dollars in help, the importance of public-sector spending is more important to business success than before.
Who won the presidential election? RI Republicans won t say Patrick Anderson, The Providence Journal © Bob Breidenbach, The Providence Journal Providence Journal File- Donald Trump as he holds up the Providence Journal which has a headline stating Hillary and Himself are leading their respective parties as he greets supporters after his speech. The Providence Journal/Bob Breidenbach
Who won the 2020 presidential election?
More than a month after the vote and after nearly every state has certified its results, Rhode Island s elected Republicans can t, or won t, say.
The Journal asked all 13 Republican members of the General Assembly, and the two representatives elected last month, who won the presidential contest that consumed the nation all year and whether there was widespread voter fraud in 2020.
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