Archive for January 2020
Providence Art Club to open 2020 with two new shows
The Providence Art Club is excited to announce it will open 2020 with two exciting exhibitions featuring work created both by new and current members of the historic organization, which turns 140 in the new year. On view in the Club’s Maxwell Mays and Mary Castelnovo Galleries will be the annual Class and Staff Exhibition,…
Read MoreA Lively Experiment with Jim Hummel, Jan 3, 2020
This week’s Lively Experiment features, with Jim Hummel, Executive Director of The Hummel Report, Moderator: Panel Jim Hummel (Moderator), Exec. Director, The Hummel Report Steph Machado, Reporter, WPRI Scott MacKay, Political Analyst, The Public’s Radio Patrick Anderson, Reporter, The Providence Journal Topics (please note subjects may change) General Assembly – budget, IGT contract, gun legislation, regional gas tax Pot – recreational appears to…
Read MoreRI Weekend Weather Wrap: Sat/Sun, Jan 4 & 5, 2020
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday 1/4/20: A low pressure system passing to our south will generate basically all day light rain and wind for the first half of the weekend. Continued warmer than normal temperatures with an early low around 40 and afternoon highs in the upper 40’s accompany the rain. Winds will eventually be…
Read MoreLong-awaited federal flavored vaping ban – could go further
Not only are new regulations about purchasing certain flavored vaping products, but within 30 days companies that do not cease production of flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes (other than tobacco or menthol) or face FDA enforcement actions. Here is the FDA statement issued Jan 2, 2020: Amid the epidemic levels of youth use of e-cigarettes and the…
Read MoreGriefSpeak – Auld Lang Syne
By: Mari Dias Hindsight is 20/20. And so is this new year. It is not merely a new year but a new decade, and if social media is any indication people have varying views on this calendar transition. The posts often begin with hindsight, looking back at the graduations, weddings, births, travels and deaths, and…
Read MoreThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – this week in Rhode Island
by Nancy Thomas, editor The Good The economy…the stock market…investments… Making new records on the very first day of 2020, no doubt that the economy is strong, jobs are plentiful and joblessness at its lowest, including women, and minorities. Let’s see if it holds throughout the year. One thing is for sure; more of us…
Read MoreBOYS AND SEX Author Peggy Orenstein coming to RI
Peggy Orenstein, the author of Boys and Sex (and Girls and Sex) will be at the Brown University Bookstore on Saturday, January 11th, from 2-4pm. Tickets are $10, and the event will benefit Foster Forward. Tickets are $10 and this event will benefit www.fosterforward.org. Please help us get the word out – the event is Saturday,…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Friday 1/3/20:
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Light rain well ahead of a developing storm system over the southeastern US will overspread the area during the afternoon. The slow moving system will plague the region for the next couple of days with waves of light rain, but warmer than normal air as well, so not a total loss.…
Read More“Town Council, Administrator, Fire Chief have failed residents… nothing short of reckless”
Middletown Fire Questions Response Times/Availability A fire on New Year’s Eve day in a small duplex home in Middletown had a father rushing in to save his daughter who was inside the home. Daughter and father were both burned, and the father’s actions were credited with saving the life of his daughter, Trinity. Trinity had…
Read MoreThe NAACP Providence eagerly awaits the 2020 legislative session
By Jim Vincent Among the NAACP-Rhode Island legislative priorities are: FAIR CHANCE LICENSINGThe formerly incarcerated deserve a second chance EARLY VOTINGWe need to increase cutizen participation in the democracy $15 MINIMUM WAGENo one in Rhode Island who is gainfully employed should live in poverty SOURCE OF INCOME DISCRIMINATION If you can afford the apartment and…
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