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The country's smallest state has the longest official name: "State
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
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Reading this post reminded me that I had thoughts, a year or so
ago, about the disconnect between how the academic literature
breaks down the state and the way that policymakers consistently
seem to fail to understand that other states have domestic
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general Tuesday, hours after losing a lawsuit she filed against her
own office in an effort to prove that she is qualified to be the
state\'s top prosecutor.Democrat Susan Bysiewicz said in a
statement she is tremendously disappointed with the state Supreme
Court\'s unanimous decision that she is not legally qualified to
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