Archive for June 2020
“A Lively Experiment” – Jim Hummel/guests talk RI name change, school reform…
This week’s Lively Experiment features, with Jim Hummel, Executive Director of The Hummel Report, Moderator: Panel:Jim Hummel – ModeratorBrandon Bell – Former RI GOP ChairmanEva Mancuso – Attorney and Former ProsecutorPablo Rodriguez – Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School Program Content:-Providence Plantations controversy-Plan for Board of Education-Reaction to Supreme Court DACA ruling A Lively Experiment airs…
Read MoreArtist Catherine Mansell Featured at Rhode Island Watercolor Society
Artist Catherine Radix Mansell, of Westerly, will be featured in a member showcase at Rhode Island Watercolor Society (RIWS) from Saturday, June 27th to Friday, July 31st, 2020. The show will be open Thursdays – Saturdays, 10am – 4pm each day. Mansell will exhibit 15 artworks at RIWS, located in the historic JC Potter Casino…
Read MoreGriefSpeak: The Emperor’s New Clothes
By: Mari Dias We are living in a world fraught with a minefield of words. It’s almost impossible to avoid them, but I will try, as I zigzag through the mire of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Although I prefer to be mute today, I will rally – as I never want to be compared to…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – June 26, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A weak trough of low pressure sets up during the morning which will be the trigger for some scattered showers to develop by midday. Anything we get will likely be passing and quick, with the best chance for rain between 1pm and 3pm. Morning lows in the upper 60’s will rise…
Read MoreThe Police need the Community need the Police
From national legislation underway to amend police enforcement techniques such as eliminating the choke hold and regulations on use of deadly force, to local efforts to support the police, defund the police, self-regulation efforts, and strife with city leadership, the police were in the news moreso in the last 48 hours than ever before. Here’s…
Read MoreJohnson and Wales University announces new direction…expansions and closings
This following video announcement was released Thursday afternoon by JWU Chancellor Mim L. Runey. Future plans for Johnson & Wales University, based in Rhode Island, include evolving from a niche university in hospital and culinary arts to becoming a comprehensive university, focusing on a 6-college model with engineering and design, health and wellness, expanding arts…
Read MoreRACE enters the race for one Providence office
Saying in a Facebook post last night that he doesn’t think anyone should “discourage or shame anyone who wants to run for office from doing so” – Providence Councilman Nicholas Narducci bows out of a potential challenge to Rep. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, who represents District 5 in Providence. His decision followed a statement by Vassell yesterday…
Read MoreReport that Turkey!
Rhode Island surveys turkey broods from July 1st to August 31st each year to gather information on productivity (number of offspring per female) and compare long-term reproductive success. This survey also provides biologists with an index of recruitment (the number of turkeys that survive to adulthood). They rely on citizen scientists (that’s you!) to collect…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 25, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Cold front heads out to sea, and dry air moves in, at least for a day. Should be a fog-free morning for coastal regions finally, and a generally very nice early summer day for all. Morning lows in the mid 60’s warm to the mid 80’s, but dewpoints will be held…
Read MoreButterflies Bring Comfort in Time of Grieving
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging Susan feels “joy in her heart and complete happiness” whenever she sees a butterfly. A butterfly came into her life as she mourned her brother’s death in 1990. Before he died, she remembers her brother saying that he would come back as a butterfly. The 62-year-old Pawtucket resident…
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