Archive for January 2020
Reaching your highest potential without pain – Dynamic Performance & Rehab
Already deep into the first month of the New Year (and new decade), people vow to change their lifestyle. They want to eat healthier, exercise more, become better at work and/or become involved with numerous other possibilities. Some people will see or feel initial success and therefore, keep driving toward their goal. Others will stop…
Read MoreNetworking Pick of the Week: Hobby to Business – TODAY
Join this different opportunity today – Monday, January 27th, starting at 3:30pm at the Warwick Public Library for an afternoon packed with information on how to take a hobby or a passion and turn it into a profitable business. You will be able to “meet the mentors” and book confidential one-on-one counseling sessions with industry…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Monday 1/27/20:
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Our oddly fair weather pattern continues, another decent day on tap. An upper level disturbance will swing through during the day, stirring up some mid-level stratocumulus clouds over a decent westerly breeze. Still warmer than normal, as afternoon highs collect around the mid 40’s from an early low in the mid…
Read MoreCover Your Flanks – when you talk to your boss’s boss…
By Mary T. O’Sullivan “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” – Tom Clancy The people with whom you communicate in any organization often signifies the level of information you will be…
Read MoreWords Unlimited: RI Sports Award Winners and Banquet
by John Cardullo, sportswriter Words Unlimited, the statewide organization of sportswriters, sportscasters and sports publicists, will hold its 74th annual Sports Awards Banquet on Sunday, February 16 at the Cranston Country Club, 69 Burlingame Rd, Cranston. Reception will start at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30. Tickets are priced at $35 each and may…
Read MoreKobe Bryant
One of the greatest basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant, 41, died in a helicopter crash in foggy conditions in Calabasas, California, at approximately 10am Sunday. The helicopter was believed to be his private helicopter. He was on his way to his 13 year old daughter, Gianna’s, basketball game. Seven of the nine who…
Read MoreTOP STORY: Middletown Town Council shuts out citizens from speaking on fire dept concerns…
(The issue facing the citizens of Middletown continues to garner attention and concern – so much so that the Town Council meeting had many wishing to testify – yet, public testimony was not allowed. This story was our Top Story of the week.) RINewsToday has been following the issue of understaffing claims of the Middletown…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020
By Jack Donnelly Rain ends early in the morning, as the air holds some of the imported heat from the departing storm, temps remain in the mid to upper 40’s through the bulk of the Sunday, dropping into the mid 30’s later in the evening as cloud cover thins and breaks. Winds do a 180…
Read MoreIn The Arena with Joe Paolino, Jr. & Kim Anderson, Plant City Providence
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. You can also watch it here, commercial free, after 8am on Sundays… This week Paolino talks with Kim Anderson, co-founder of Plant City Providence, discussing how plant-based foods have skyrocketed in…
Read MoreThe Dead Birds of Downtown… horrified to death by building’s ugliness?
By David Brussat, Architecture Here and There The Wexford Innovation Center, completed last year in Providence’s I-195 corridor dedicated to technology, has been killing birds. No, they are not horrified to death by its ugliness; rather, they are disoriented by its reflective plate-glass windows, which birds think they can fly through. Big mistake. Maybe they…
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