Archive for April 2021
Networking Pick of the Week – KickStart
A first of its kind event for Southeastern Massachusetts/Rhode Island Businesses and Non-Profits will be held TODAY, Monday, April 5th, from 5:00 – 6:15 pm This networking group is combination of local networking groups and is designed to allow each group’s members to cross pollinate with others. The goal is to allow all to “Kick Start” our…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – April 5, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Low pressure continues to sit and spin near the Gulf of Maine, and high pressure tries to press in from the southwest, so we can expect some breezy conditions to start the week. Lot’s of sun and warmer temperatures will take the edge off of the winds effect, so it should…
Read MoreWhat Happens When We Violate the Rules? – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.” – Benjamin Franklin Organizations can get themselves into trouble and create legal exposure when they flaunt common sense and the rules and ignore laws designed to protect employees and employers alike. I came across and interesting case study which can be…
Read More9 more tanks. 390,000+ gallons of used oil. A pond to Narragansett Bay. One of the most densely populated cities in America. What could go wrong? (updated)
Central Falls, Rhode Island. The 27th most densely populated city in America. Approximately 20,000 people living in little more than 1 square mile. Recently, we’ve all learned more about Central Falls as it became a hotspot for COVID-19 transmission. Dense housing, with streets of 3-tenement houses and multi-generational family living, made the transmission of a…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – Sun, April 4, 2021
Low pressure creeps back to the west from the Atlantic, around which some more in the way of cloud cover will be passing over the area, but we’ll still have plenty of Sun and even warmer temperatures for Easter, so any egg hunting expeditions shouldn’t be frozen finger affairs. Morning lows in the low to…
Read MoreThe Louvre puts its entire art collection online
The Louvre has made its entire art collection available online and for free. The new Collections database is comprised of 482,000 works from the French museum, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, the Tuileries and Carrousel gardens sculptures, plus “MNR” (Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery) pieces that were found after World War II and were…
Read More“In the Arena” – Rep. James Langevin with Joe Paolino, Jr.
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. This week his guest is U.S. Representative James Langevin. They talk about the federal stimulus plan, the coronavirus, vaccinations, the new Governor, gun control, cybersecurity, submarine industry, IT, federal initiatives, and…
Read More7 Easter Sunday locations put HOPE for a vaccine time into action – updated
UPDATED 4/5/2021: Informal results of Sunday vaccine appointment setting for the Black, Asian, Indigenous, Hispanic communities: 544 people registered across 5 sites in RI at these 7 sites on Sunday. Total registrants per RIDOH is approx. 900. Background: from RIDOH: Governor Dan McKee worked with the Equity Council to organize equity-focused COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Equity-Focused Clinics…
Read MoreRI Weekend Weather Wrap – April 3/4, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday 4/3/21: We’ll still have a reflection of the upper level trough influencing the lower surface weather in the form of cooler air and generally clear skies dotted with some fair weather cumulus clouds during the day. Afternoon temperatures will be a bit higher than yesterday, around 50 for a high…
Read MoreNCAA Final Four Matchups – John Cardullo
by John Cardullo, sportswriter The NCAA Basketball season gets ready to wrap up and crown both a Men’s and Women’s champion for 2020-21, a season that will be forever known for plowing on during a Pandemic. The Final Four teams are set in both the Men’s and Women’s side of the brackets and for those…
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