Eliminate line spacing after #EXCERPT

I have a table displaying the list of events. In one of the TD’s in each row I want to add some text with a link to the full event page after a line displaying the #EXCERPT. The excerpt gets wrapped in <p>…</p>, followed by my additional text, but there’s a sizeable space between the summary and my additional text. I want to control, or at least reduce that space.

I’ve set the line-height for the table, which reduces the space between lines in the summary if that’s long enough to wrap.

I have tried adjusting the space between paragraphs by setting margin-top and margin-bottom for <p>, and even setting margin and padding for the table to zero. Those don’t seem to have any effect.

My formatting for the lines of the table looks like this:

<tr><td style=”padding-right: 5px; background-color: #91DFFE;”>#_STARTDATE – #_STARTTIME</td><td> #_LINKEDNAME</td><td>#_EXCERPT (
Click for details.)</td></tr>

and you can see the spacing I’d like to adjust at https://www.thurstonclimateaction.org/events/

Thanks in advance for any suggestions…

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