Archive for June 2020
RECALL: Fresh Express Recalls bagged Salads
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumers that Fresh Express is recalling salad products that contain iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, and/or carrot ingredients due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. The recalled items were distributed to select retail stores in many states, including Rhode Island and Massachusetts, between June 6th and…
Read MoreTAP more marketing exercise than strategy for Providence schools
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com The long-awaited turnaround action plan for Providence Schools is more of a branding and marketing exercise than a detailed, strategic approach The turnaround action plan for the Providence Public School District, “Turning Hope into Results,” is 68 pages long, but the actual action plan is only 39 pages, with the remaining…
Read MoreNeeding to to find a job – in a pandemic
Many hardworking, ambitious people now find themselves jobless, some after many years of faithful and loyal service. It’s a shock, but also a circumstance out of their control. Who can control a worldwide pandemic and make it go away overnight? The reality is that it’s a circumstance that no longer fits the usual paradigms –…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 30, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Tuesday 6/30/20: Essentially a repeat of yesterday, low pressure stuck in a nearly inescapable traffic rotary anchored down by upper level low pressure, giving us just a bit of instability that helps generate the showers and scattered storms we’ll again see in the afternoon. Morning lows dip to the mid 60’s…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, June 30, 2020
Photo: A Poland art gallery created a nice picnic area for its visitors – in an artistic way. National and International Microsoft announced on Friday that it will permanently close all of its retail locations. The company behind the ubiquitous Windows operating system announced this week that their 83 retail locations Most overnight summer camps…
Read MoreRI invites citizens’ involvement in planning voting
Voting this year, regardless of how we all do it, will be a unique experience, and one that should not be undertaken lightly in the planning. The RI Secretary of State’s office is convening a task force of state and local election officials, good government groups and members of the public from across the state…
Read MoreCranston Citizens Guide to the Land Development Process benefits all
Cranston will be getting a new Citizens Guide to the Land Development Process if efforts are successful of mayoral candidate, and Cranston City Councilman, Kenneth J. Hopkins, and Ward 5 Councilman Christopher Paplauskas. They will be sponsoring an ordinance for introduction at the next Cranston City Council meeting to provide for the guide’s creation. In…
Read MoreNetworking Pick of the Week – Venture Café & District Hall Providence
What does it mean to go back to work now that we’re in the “new normal”? Join the Giant Shoulders team on June 30th from 4:30-6:30 PM as they examine the topic of where, how, and with whom we will conduct our work – both during the pandemic and beyond. This is an online event. Next week will feature a panel of experts including…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 29, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Low pressure sits and spins for a while giving us a drizzly morning with some light rain in the midday and afternoon hours. Not a lot of steering flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere to move the low pressure along, so we’ll have to deal with it for a…
Read MoreProfiles in Courage are Today’s Whistleblowers
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “A Speaker of Truth Has No Friends” – African Proverb What happened in 2010 when the Deep Horizon oil drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and almost destroyed the coastlines and economies of four US states; Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Alabama? Thirteen people were killed on that rig…
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