Archive for January 2021
Your Coronavirus Update – Today, Jan. 13, 2021
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…
Read MoreURI College of Pharmacy trains pharmacists, technicians to deliver COVID-19 vaccine
With the production of the COVID-19 vaccine, the end of the pandemic is on the horizon. While there’s still a long way to go, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy faculty and staff members continue their efforts to hasten the end of the deadly pandemic, training pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to administer the vaccine.…
Read More$7/hr pay hikes for RI Developmental Disabilities workers by 2024, per Federal Judge
By Gina Macris, contributing writer, Developmental Disabilities News Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of the U.S. District Court has tightened his reins on Rhode Island’s developmental disability system in an order that gives the state two and a half years to raise the hourly wages of direct care workers nearly $7, to $20 an…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday…it’s Sour Grapes!
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,…
Read MoreThe interview that never happened – by ConvergenceRI
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…
Read MoreTasting Addiction – by Michael Morse
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,…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Tues, Jan. 12, 2021
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…
Read MoreBig tech. Too big, too powerful.
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…
Read MoreWhy are post offices lovely? – by David Brussat
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…
Read MoreNetworking Pick: ASCENT learning platform for women launches TODAY
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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