Archive for October 2020
“We Got Your Six” Vehicle Parade at RI Veterans Home
Volunteers are busy completing plans for the first No Contact Car and Truck Parade to support the Rhode Island Veterans Hone residents and staff on Saturday, October 24th. The event begins at 11am at Rhode Island Veterans Home Road. Parade Grand Marshals are former RI Attorney General, Arlene Violet, Linda Peck (ITAM Veteran), and…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Wed, Oct. 21, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist After some dense morning fog burns off mid morning, another front will replace yesterdays front, similar characteristics, only a bit further north with a lower chance for showers. It’ll be a bit muggy, with high dew points and light winds under partly cloudy skies. Morning lows in the upper 50’s rising…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday – it’s Sour Grapes!
by Tim 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 More“I don’t want my son’s name behind what’s happening right now….”
A protest planned by groups including Black Lives Matter RI, turned ugly in Providence last night. The protest was against the Providence Police and their potential role in the accident that put motor bike rider, Jhamal Gonsalves, in the hospital, after suffering a head injury. As the early morning hours came, 19 arrests were made,…
Read MoreRI-based CVS at the beginning, middle – and (hopefully) the end of the pandemic.
CVS Health to hire 15,000 across the U.S. in fourth quarter At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic Rhode Islanders could be proud of seeing CVS step forward with early prevention information and testing – being the very first fast-testing site in the US set up in a tented area at Twin River in…
Read More3 Surprising items negotiated in a Real Estate transaction!
By Emilio DiSpirito, Realtor of DiSpirito Team with HomeSmart Professionals [email protected] When selling a home, you realize that it’s important to hire a Realtor who can negotiate the best and highest offer for your home. What many homeowners may not be aware of is that there are several items, terms, and contingencies outside of pricing…
Read MoreRhode Island an outlier in release of pandemic relief funds, reconvening legislature, and not doing a state budget
Rhode Island is an outlier in not releasing pandemic relief funds, not convening legislature, and not doing a state budget. A comparison of the 5 New England states for release of relief funds, only: Rhode Island 24% Connecticut 71% New Hampshire 80% Vermont 100% Maine 55% Of these five states, only RI has not passed…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Tues, Oct. 20, 2020
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A cold front approaches from the northwest as a near coastal boundary develops and drives some low level moisture into the area, generating morning mist that will stick around until just after sunrise. A few afternoon showers can be expected ahead of the cold front and through the low cloud cover…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, Oct. 20, 2020
Photo: Massachusetts cell phone users are beginning to receive emergency alerts on their phones. This is not – yet – activated in Rhode Island – as case numbers soar, look for creative ways to receive the coronavirus warnings. NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Fauci: COVID-19 numbers would have to “get really, really bad” before advocating national lockdown…
Read MoreRI Foundation tackles racial disparities with $8.5M Equity Leadership Initiative
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, health contributor Photo: Womazetta Jones, Secretary of RI EOHHS, and Neil Steinberg, president/CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation in August of 2019. An immediate challenge: the need to have an “uncomfortable conversation” about how racism may be embedded in the analytics software algorithms used by Optum, according to findings in new…
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