Archive for March 2021
Your Coronavirus Update – Today, March 16, 2021
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Photo: URI facing an uptick and quarantines The RI vaccination portal opens with new availability today at 9am – there is not enough supply until next week, it is estimated, to accommodate people. Only 1,900 appts are available today. RI can do 100K shots per week. The state’s site will also…
Read MoreUPDATED: Where is the urgency to clean up toxic Allens Avenue?
Attorney General Neronha, DEM Director Gray issue statements following successful effort to shut down operations at Rhode Island Recycled Metals until further notice Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Terrence Gray today issued the following statements after today’s decision by Providence Superior Court Justice Brian P. Stern granting the…
Read MoreNetworking Pick of the Week – Virtual Coffee w/New England Entrepreneurs
The popular Virtual Coffee Networking with New England Entrepreneurs is put on by Innovation Studio. Join them for their monthly event! Wed, March 17th, 11am A VIRTUAL networking event. Join Coffee Networking and stay connected with the New England entrepreneur community together with the Innovation Studio, and their communities that include: District Hall Boston and…
Read MoreNew England Boxing legend, Marvelous Marvin Hagler – John Cardullo
By John Cardullo, sportswriter Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s boxing career began in 1969, when after his family moved from Newark, New Jersey to Brockton, MA. Marvin was beat up on the street of Brockton by a local boxer as his friends watched. He decided that enough was enough and the next day he walked into a…
Read MoreRI Senate Tackles High Cost of Prescription Drugs – Herb Weiss
by Herb Weiss, contributing writer Photo: Commonwealth Fund In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island General Assembly move to hammer out their Fiscal Year 2022 budget, Senate lawmakers push a package of eight legislative proposals to put the brakes on skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. The Senate…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – Mon, March 15, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist We should not see much more in the way of snow, as the triggering trough will be well out to see, but we’ll still have a decent pressure gradient in place which makes for another windy day, northwesterlies 15-25 mph gusting to 40 mph. Lot’s of Sun, but cold air being…
Read MoreThe Power of Rest – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life.” – Carlo Petrini When you take a roast out of the oven, the cooking instructions tell you to “let the meat rest”. A rested roast, turkey or even meatloaf tastes better when rested, because…
Read More365 days of COVID response: Hope never left. And neither did you
“Community” is more than our middle name, it’s embedded into who we are. “Hope” is more than our State’s motto, it’s embedded into everything we do. 365 days ago, our world changed. The second Friday in March of 2020, COVID-19 hit our community with a vengeance, and changed every aspect of our lives. A year…
Read MoreDeeper look at RI Budget: $15M for DD reform overshadowed by $10M cut
By Gina Macris, Developmental Disability News Thursday’s initial briefing on Governor Daniel McKee’s proposed budget for adults with developmental disabilities highlighted a $15-million set-aside to plan changes in the system, in response to a federal court order enforcing a 2014 civil rights consent decree. At the same time, the budget legislation submitted to the General…
Read MoreProvidence on suicide watch – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture Photo: Proposed mist ring above Waterplace; image does not show raising river walks by 11 feet. (Arup) Each time news emerges of another plan to renovate Kennedy Plaza, Waterplace Park or other sites in downtown Providence, it gets worse and worse. Now there are…
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