I was in Durham, NC, earlier this week, where my wife received treatment from doctors at Duke Medical Center.
With plenty of time to spare, it occurred to me that I should get a selfie at the Duke Lacrosse house to post on the website. While the 2006 prosecution and April 2007...
Welcome to my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Rhode Island lawmakers are undergoing anti-sexual harassment training after a female lawmaker alleged she was told she could get legislations passed if she slept with the right people.
This is getting silly and dronish.
From the GoLocalProv News Team:
Moses Brown Boy’s Varsity Soccer Coach Eric Aaronian announced that he will kneel during the n...
It’s tough for bricks-and-mortar retailers.
We reported earlier this year, how Retailers Filing for Bankruptcy Keep Piling Up, May Set Record in 2017. And recently how Toys R Us Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 at least allows a retailer to reorganize, and perhaps survive in some form. But other retailers are simply folding up...
The only state which still celebrates Victory Over Japan Day is my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Except, we can’t call it Victory Over Japan Day. Because that is a microaggression against Japan, even though they did start the war and we are celebrating victory over Japan.
I’ve covered this...
The activists beyond the “Resistance” to Donald Trump’s Inauguration are urging students nationwide to walk out of classes on Friday, January 20, 2017, just prior to Trump’s swearing in.
The College Fix reports:
A student socialist group has organized a nationwide walkout on Friday to protest...
Central Falls High School math teacher Seth Kolker has organized a trip for a group of students to attend the “Women’s March on Washington” to protest against President-elect Donald Trump the day after his inauguration:
Central Falls High School math teacher Seth Kolker has independently organized the group. He did so to...
Alan Sorrentino wrote a Letter to the Editor of his local newspaper, the Barrington Times in Barrington, Rhode Island.
It was a letter, accordingly to Sorrentino, intended to be tongue-in-cheek, somewhat humorous in intent, critical of women wearing yoga pants outside the yoga studio (and men in Speedos).
Little did Sorrentino realize that...
The internet moves from object of hate, to object of hate.
Perhaps a prime example was Justine Sacco, who after tweeting an ambiguous, clearly satirical message about AIDS that some people interpreted as racist, found herself...
As you may have noted from some of my recent posts, we recently bought a small waterfront house in my formerly-now-once-again home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
For the past six weeks I’ve been back and forth several times, and expect to split the year between Ithaca and Rhode Island...
I’m back in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations again. Not just for the weekend, but “for good.” We are back to splitting the year between Ithaca and RI.
When I left in 2013, I lamented all that would be missed:
My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has...
The Rhode Island legislature has joined numerous other states in passing legislation prohibiting the state and its subdivisions from contracting with entities involved in discriminatory boycotts, which would cover the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Signature by the Governor is expected.
The recognition that boycotts based on religion and national origin are d...
My formerly home State of Rhode Island and [do you remember the rest of the official state name?] recently mourned the loss of Robert Healey, founder and perennial candidate of the Cool Moose Party:
Robert J. Healey Jr. was a fixture at Rod’s Grille in Warren — so much so that words...
You may recall the Silver Spring, Maryland case of parents being charged with “unsubstantiated neglect” for allowing their children, ages 10 and 6, to walk home from a local park. This, along with similar incidents, sparked a debate about “free-range kids,” the role government should take in parenting, and the relative...
Former Providence Mayor Vicent “Buddy” Cianci, Jr. has died, The Providence Journal reports.
He was a lovable rogue, but definitely a rogue. He transformed Providence from a washed-out industrial blight to the jewel of New England. He was larger than life, and came to epitomize both the power and excesses of personality.
My prior...
