Edward Fitzpatrick
News Reporter at The Boston Globe
Host at Rhode Island Report
@BostonGlobe reporter covering Rhode Island. Former @projo columnist, reporter. @FiveFreedoms board member. Host of #RIReport podcast. @NewhouseSU grad. Runner.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Edward Fitzpatrick
PROVIDENCE — The fastest game on grass? Hurling’s history reaches back 3,000 years, and the All-Ireland hurling final draws up to 80,000 fans to Croke Park in Dublin. Here in Rhode island, the Providence Hurling Club began 10 years ago, and it recently drew 20 lads to the Gano Street field for practice. On the Rhode Island Report podcast, co-founder Michael Kennelly explained that hurling has similarities to hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, and baseball. “It’s kind of all those things,“ he said.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Edward Fitzpatrick
The legislation would make 48 changes to the public records law, which has not been significantly updated since 2012. This is the third consecutive year that Senator Louis P. DiPalma has championed the legislation, but it has failed to pass in the face of opposition from the McKee administration.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Edward Fitzpatrick
a record-setting, 33-inning game played between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings in 1981. “The longest game is part of McCoy Stadium’s legacy, and finding this time capsule means a part of that legacy will live on,” Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien said in a statement. Both time capsules will be opened during a June 23 ceremony marking the 44th anniversary of baseball’s longest game.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Edward Fitzpatrick
Opponents urged the committee to reject the bill, saying it aims to legalize a practice that Rhode Island’s criminal code now calls “assisted suicide.”McDowell, 72, of Little Compton, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying she is a direct descendant of Stephen Hopkins, a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island who added his “very wobbly signature” to the Declaration of Independence.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Edward Fitzpatrick
PROVIDENCE — While the Rhode Island Senate leadership battle ended April 29, the clash continued this week as the new Democratic majority leader and a former majority leader exchanged accusations about promises made during the scramble for power. Pearson, in turn, claimed Ciccone and new Senate President Valarie A. Lawson promised conservative senators they would torpedo a proposed ban on assault-style weapons by sending the bill to a divided Senate Judiciary Committee to die.
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