Rhode Island Tag

URI Students Plan to Create a ‘White List’ of Profs Who Fail to Push Diversity Hiring

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2020 9 Comments

"no university could possibly maintain an all-White senior leadership for 128 years without implicitly and deliberately colluding and conspiring to exclude African-Americans"...

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Art School With Massive Deficit Hiring 10 Profs to Teach ‘Race and Decolonization’

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 10, 2020 5 Comments

"We repeatedly heard from our community that the most definitive transformation we could make would be to increase the diversity of the scholarship of our faculty and thereby our pedagogy"...

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Is A Conspiracy Nutter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2020 25 Comments

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is nutter. A conspiracy nutter. It's his personality, and it preceded the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

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University of Rhode Island Votes to Cancel Spring Break in 2021

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 26, 2020 1 Comment

"spring break, which was initially set for March 22, has been replaced with classes"...

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URI Removing Murals Commemorating WWII Veterans for Lacking Diversity

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2020 12 Comments

“These murals were a snapshot in time, but the images no longer represent who we are today and where we are going in the future” ...

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“Michael from Rhode Island” Starring At DNC as “Longstanding Republican” Voting Biden, Is A Democrat

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2020 37 Comments

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 DNC as a "longstanding Republican for a long time" who is voting for Biden.

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Rhode Island’s “Victory [Over Japan] Day” Holiday May Fall Victim To Ongoing Historical Purge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2020 38 Comments

"But amid the national reckoning on racism, those calls [to change the name] have been renewed ...

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Naval War College Official Placed on Leave Over Pornographic Link in Email

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 03, 2020 5 Comments

“The matter is currently under investigation”...

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Connecticut pathologist’s study shows CDC coronavirus test kits generate 30% false positive results

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 19, 2020 63 Comments

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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“Connotation” phase of the cultural purge: Rhode Island loses its “Providence Plantations”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2020 40 Comments

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 early settlement:

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Man Arrested for Allegedly Painting Swastikas on Gravestones at Providence College

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 24, 2020 11 Comments

"spray-painted swastikas, defaced multiple gravestones, then attempted to set a grass area on fire at the Dominican Cemetery on campus"...

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Middle School Teacher Among Those Arrested for Allegedly Vandalizing Columbus Statue in RI

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 14, 2020 5 Comments

"Pawtucket Superintendent Cheryl McWilliams told WPRI 12 on Saturday afternoon that Garforth is out on leave pending an investigation."...

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Officials at Providence College Apologize Following Large Gathering of Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 18, 2020 1 Comment

"Many were seen gathered in groups larger than five and not wearing cloth face coverings"...

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Wuhan Virus Watch: Texas, California, and Iowa among states lifting lockdown rules

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2020 24 Comments

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

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Community fundraises to bring food and PPE for struggling workers at Rhode Island’s Orchard View Manor nursing home

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2020 15 Comments

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 does not welcome you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2020 58 Comments

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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Support your local businesses, while they still exist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2020 72 Comments

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, with workers feverishly unpacking and shelving items. Seems I got there just a little too early.

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On the beach, waiting for Wuhan coronavirus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2020 72 Comments

There are a small number of movies that had a profound impact on me as a child. Having grown up in the generation for whom nuclear war was the looming threat, many of those formative movies concerned the aftermath of nuclear war. I particularly remember Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove.

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