Archive for April 2020
Networking Pick of the Week: Virtual LEADS Lunch
The Central RI Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Virtual LEADS Lunch on Friday, April 10th, from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Where? In the comfort of your own home, your address, your city, Rhode Island This FREE event will be held via ZOOM. You bring the sandwich; they’ll bring the connections. Networking is about making…
Read More“Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Infantile Liberalism and the End of Democracy” – a short story by Michael Fine
by Michael Fine © 2020 by Michael Fine This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Introduction That old white man…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, April 5, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Morning sunshine and low temps in the chilly mid 30’s will be followed by increasing afternoon clouds and light southerly breezes, highs in the warmer mid 50’s ahead of an advancing weak cold front and some light rain very late, more of an overnight situation.
Read MoreIn The Arena with Joe Paolino, Jr. & Dale Venturini, RI Hospitality Association
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. This week, Dale Venturini, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Hospitality Association, joins Joe Paolino Jr. to discuss the ongoing challenges faced by local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here…
Read MoreNews Media & House/Senate Minority Caucuses make requests of Governor Raimondo
(Photo: Gov. Raimondo & First Gentleman hold children’s talk this week) Two groups are calling upon Governor Raimondo to open up the crisis management bunker to bring in the media and the RI Legislature. Currently, Governor Raimondo has daily availabilities at 1pm where she speaks from a podium in a room with 4 or 5…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today, April 5, 2020
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PINK has tested positive, but says she is now recovered Dozens of Italian nurses and doctors have died of the virus & two nurses have committed suicide The Franciscan Brothers in Italy have offered a hotline for people to call to get support and comfort Giorgio Armani now producing protective gear; Gucci…
Read MoreRI Weekend Weather Wrap – Sat/Sun, April 4/5, 2020
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday 4/4/20: Our overextended uninvited guest of low pressure will finally gather it’s things and ease on down the road, leaving behind some morning cloud cover, mist and breezes followed by partial clearing and still cooler than normal weather, morning lows around 40 and afternoon highs in the upper 40’s. Sunday…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update Today – April 4, 2020
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL All Disney works in US have been furloughed Brooklyn, NY has leased 20 hotels to convert into hospitals The Yankees have sent their ponchos to local hospitals Labor Dept – US lost 701,000 jobs in March With unemployment surge, millions expected to lose insurance, turn to Medicaid Supreme Court cancels courtroom argument…
Read MoreNew Sour Grapes coloring book addresses bullying
Tim Jones is a self-syndicated comic strip artist from Rhode Island where he lives with his wife and two daughters. His comic strip, Sour Grapes, runs in RINewsToday every Wednesday. Jones has just debuted a new coloring book which addresses the disturbing topic of bullying. With his popular characters, Aesop and Ominous, the coloring story…
Read More2020 Rhode Island Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame
By John Cardullo, sportswriter The Rhode Island Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame announces the 2020 inductees who will be inducted at the 3rd annual R.I.S.P.S.H.O.F. induction dinner that will be held on Sunday, November 8th at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, R.I. “There will be 25 new inductees joining the already 55 inducted members…
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