Your Coronavirus Update – Today, Jan. 13, 2021

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Photo: Image from NBC Nightly News – RI is one of 5 stats with hotspots of COVID19. RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Gov. Raimondo has not been public or held a COVID19 briefing in 25 days – this was mentioned in most of the RI media yesterday. Early this morning Gov. Raimondo issued a release that…

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If it’s Wednesday…it’s Sour Grapes!

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by Tim Jones, cartoonist Enjoy! _____ 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,…

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The interview that never happened – by ConvergenceRI

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by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer With the Governor on her way to Washington D.C., her refusal to sit down with ConvergenceRI for a one-on-one interview, despite six years of persistent attempts, must be worn as a badge of honor. I’ve interviewed hundreds if not thousands of people during my journalism career, which has spanned…

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Tasting Addiction – by Michael Morse

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by Michael Morse, contributing writer I think we are all getting a taste of the misery that is addiction. I know that social media is a distraction on its good days, a compulsion most of the time and an absolute obsession when things in the real world turn upside down.   We all have an opinion,…

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RI Weather Today – Tues, Jan. 12, 2021

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by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A lack of meteorological variety continues to benefit us, Sunny, some midday cloud cover, a little warmer than normal with afternoon highs in the low 40’s and morning ows in the upper 20’s, and a light northwesterly breeze. No threat of any precipitation given the high pressure regime set up over…

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Big tech. Too big, too powerful.

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This story has been updated. There has been rapid developments in the way censorship has grown from the first action of Twitter taking down the President’s tweets for inciting a riot and violence in the nation’s capital. We deplore the violence that happened and we hope a full and thorough investigation will be done. As…

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Why are post offices lovely? – by David Brussat

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by David Brussat, contributing writer, Architecture Here and There Photo: Federal courthouse, 1908 (right), post office 1940 (middle) and State House, 1901. (postcard, @1950s) I speak out in praise of my friend and fellow Rhode Island architecture critic William Morgan’s “In Praise of the Post Office.” In this recent article for GoLocalProv.com, Morgan writes: The…

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Networking Pick: ASCENT learning platform for women launches TODAY

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Join SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza for the ground-breaking launch of Ascent, an online digital learning platform for women small business owners. Ascent is the first-of-its-kind online resource specifically designed to help the nearly 10 million American women entrepreneurs grow and scale their small business. This virtual event will include discussion panels with real women entrepreneurs,…

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