Archive for February 2020
RI Weekend Weather Wrap: Sat/Sun, 2/29 & 3/1, 2020
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A cool and blustery Leap Day for your weekend kickoff, upper 20’s for lows with a light breeze keeping wind chills down in the upper teens. We’ll warm to the upper 30’s with a brisk and gusty wind out of the northwest under patchy stratocumulus cloud cover, a sub-freezing feel through…
Read MorePanera goes bottomless
In a move described by Panera’s CEO, Niren Chaudhary as “disrupting the industry”, Panera has launched a subscription coffee promotion. For $8.99 a month you can drink as much hot coffee, hot tea, and iced coffee with unlimited refills as you want throughout the month. Panera claims to be the first in the national restaurant…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – 2-29-2020
Advice We don’t mean to make light, in any way, of this challenge to our health, but if you could think about your face area as having a “cone of shame” around it, and have a “hands-off” policy as much as possible, we know that would make a big difference in preventing germs from entering…
Read MoreA Lively Experiment with Jim Hummel, Feb. 28, 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 Dan Reilly, Former State Representative Maureen Moakley, URI Political Science Professor Rob Horowitz Topics (please note subjects may change) House Speaker Mattiello faces a challenge for his seat Joe Biden’s bid for…
Read MoreGirls just want to have fun!
By John Cardullo, sportswriter Girls just want to have fun! Slap shots, driving the net, and scoring goals Girls ice hockey is as popular as it’s ever been and growing Women’s ice hockey can be traced back to the 1920s. Ladies had been playing the sport before then. In Canada and the Northern United States,…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Friday 2/28/20:
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist As much as we may like to think, Winter is not dead yet, as far as chilly conditions are concerned. We’ll feel the brunt of a late February rush of cool continental air chilled effectively by high winds blustering in from the west courtesy of a tight pressure gradient set up…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update Today 2/28/20
Personal Preparedness It’s a time to prepare. Some things you might consider doing for personal and family preparedness: Make and freeze a week or two’s worth of meals for you and those who live with you – things like casseroles, soups, pasta casseroles. Buy and freeze rolls that can be used one at a a…
Read MoreGriefSpeak: ALS
By: Mari Dias (All names, places and identifying factors have been changed.) As a child, Gregory watched the young girl next door as she hung out the wash on the clothesline in her backyard. As he grew older, he thought he might be a priest and he created a makeshift church in his basement. The…
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly…this week in Rhode Island 2/28/2020
THE GOOD Ash Wednesday, Lent, Spring We’re all in need of some spirituality. Unfortunately, Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season came in with a hush as the country’s attention turned to a virus. Let’s remember this holy time and the solace it can bring. And spring can’t be far behind. Friends of the RI Veterans…
Read MoreRhode Island Veterans Home Study shows changes needed
(At 4:30pm, the RI Department of Veterans Affairs released this news release and a link to the TIGER report – see below). SUMMARY of Study by Alvarez & Marsal: Alvarez & Marsal was engaged to provide the leadership of the Rhode Island Veterans Home Community Living Center with an overall risk assessment and series of…
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