Archive for July 2020
Summertime Learning for RI Children in Grades 2 to 6
Distance learning this summer is fun. Elementary school children can experience The Creative Squad, Nature Drawing, Yoga and the Environmental Detective Club for grades 2 through 6. Participants earn digital badges, while combining literacy with creativity, self-esteem and civic pride. Classes start July 20th through using Google Classroom. To sign up: https://www.theempowermentfactory.org/free-summer-kids-online-learning Here’s more on…
Read MoreProvidence Reparations announcement part of international agenda
A press conference was held yesterday in Providence as the city’s mayor, Mayor Jorge Elorza, announced a program intending Providence to be the first city to consider reparations for Black and Indigenous people. In fact, Providence’s efforts were just one of several happening in the US and internationally in the last few weeks. Elorza signed…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, July 16, 2020
National & International Walmart (Sam’s Clubs) customers will have to wear masks. Other national stores are joining this call for mask wearing by customers, such as Kroger, Kohls – and all members of US Retailers Association are being asked to do so. California has closed all indoor establishments – restaurants, bars, gyms, hairdressers – have…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – July 16, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist High pressure remains in control of our weather for another day. We will benefit from dry and pleasantly warm air with a light southeasterly breeze. Afternoon highs in the upper 70’s from a morning low around 60, give or take a couple of degrees.
Read MoreRI Weather Today – July 15, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist High pressure builds in and helps dry up the air for what should be a pleasant day. Some lingering clouds through the morning as the upper level disturbance clears away to the southeast, we’ll have a low in the mid 60’s and an afternoon high in the mid 70’s with a…
Read MoreRI Pediatricians: “We’re open – and it’s safe.”
Rhode Island Pediatricians Release Video Public Service Announcement Urging Families to Return for Well-Child Visits Pediatricians’ offices are open and safe. Parents urged to make appointments to ensure children receive recommended immunizations. The American Academy of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Chapter has released a video public service announcement reassuring families that pediatricians’ offices are open, safe,…
Read More“An independent press is not a liberal ideal or a progressive ideal or a democratic ideal. It’s an American ideal. The New York Times is a bully.” – Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss was a staff writer and editor for the Opinion section of The New York Times, until this week, when she resigned. As a more conservative writer she was subjected to bullying and a work environment where “truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose…
Read MoreSubdivide history? Bad idea for Providence
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Photo: Small cottage slated for relocation at proposed Fox Point subdivision, Providence. (Photo by author) The first blocks of William and John streets off Benefit Street, where College Hill meets Fox Point, are steeped not only in history but historical character. Most of the houses on these and…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday – it must be Sour Grapes!
by Timothy Jones, cartoonist Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip, “Sour Grapes” – a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world. Sour Grapes is currently published in multiple newspapers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California…
Read MoreRI/US Coronavirus testing problems – meeting the unmet needs
Editor’s Note: We publish this one month since it was written, in June, 2020. As we publish once again a call for testing sufficiency is growing from coast to coast. Particularly in hotspot states of Florida and Texas. But also in Rhode Island we are hearing of days’ wait to get a test, and then…
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