Will First Latino Mayor of Providence Run for Governor?
The son of Dominican immigrants and Providence’s first Latino mayor, Angel Taveras finds himself one of the best-liked politicians in the state, with a difficult choice to make later this year — whether to seek the governor’s office in 2014.
A little more than halfway through his first term, the 42-year-old Democrat has walked the city back from the brink in a state, Rhode Island, that has struggled for years with one of the highest U.S. unemployment rates.
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