College life sure sounds fun this year, doesn’t it? Is it any wonder why so many people elected to take a gap year?

WJAR News reports:

University of Rhode Island votes to eliminate spring break 2021

The University of Rhode Island...

The people who are doing this must know they are judging the past by the standards of today. Which would mean they are intentionally trying to erase the past. It’s sickening.

Campus Reform reports:

Other than some of the key speeches, I skipped most of the live coverage of the Democrat National Convention. When I tried to watch, it was unbearable, like watching a never-ending public service announcement from the Ad Council.

So I missed the live coverage of “Michael from Rhode Island” presented by the...

Every year we remember Victory Over Japan Day, later known as VJ Day, now celeberated only in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, with the shortened more politically correct name “Victory Day” because apparently historically accurately remembering over whom we had a victory is forbidden.

This year I missed the...

Oops. He is blaming this on a hack of his home computer.

The Navy Times reports:

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As the American press paints a dire picture of all the new cases of coronavirus out there, to inspire another economy-crushing set of closures, it would be wise to step back and start questioning the numbers.

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Rhode Island’s official full name is State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

The word “Plantations” in Rhode Island history giving rise to the name has nothing to do with slave ownership or slave plantations. Rather, at the time Rhode Island was founded, the term plantation simply signified an...

The suspect also reportedly assaulted a public safety officer.

ABC 6 in Rhode Island reports:

Man arrested for spray-painting swastikas at Providence College

Providence Police have identified the man they say spray-painted swastikas on graves...

The man is a social studies teacher. It’s time for America to have a conversation about who is teaching our children.

WPRI News reports:

Pawtucket teacher among those arrested for vandalizing boarded-up Columbus statue

Three people were arrested early Saturday morning for vandalizing the Christopher Columbus statue in Providence.

One of the suspects arrested, Derrick...

This is another example of how ready people are to end the shutdowns.

WPRI News reports:

Providence College officials apologize following large student gathering Saturday

Providence College officials have issued an apology to the community after students poured out of off-campus housing and flouted coronavirus-related social distancing mandates this weekend.

Video shared on social media...

On Friday afternoon, my company discussed the development of recommissioning plans.

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The last we wrote about the Wuhan coronarivus situation in Rhode Island, Governor Gina Raimondo had ordered the State Police and National Guard to stop vehicles with New York plates, expanded to all out-of-state plates after NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw a fit.

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Rhode Island’s Governor Gina Raimondo announced last Thursday that the State Police would be stopping cars with New York plates entering the state, and requiring drivers from New York who planned on staying in Rhode Island to self-quarantine.

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I went to Walmart early this morning, hoping to pick up a few things before the crowds arrived.

The bad news is the shelves were really picked over, frighteningly so, and not just for food. The good news is the aisles were filled with wrapped pallets of food and assorted other things,...

Readers of Legal Insurrection know who Linc Chafee is.

For several years we covered the once-upon-a-time Republican Senator (in a seat he inherited from his father), and Independent former Governor of Rhode Island, is quirky, to put it mildly.

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In January 2018, I wrote about the Kafkaesque campus sexual assault tribunal at Johnson & Wales alleged in lawsuit.

The case involved all-too-common really troubling procedural twists:

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