Rhode Island Weather for March 31, 2025 – Jack Donnelly

by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Morning mist hangs around til mid morning and then cloud cover persists trough the day. Warmer, with southwesterly flow gusting to 30 mph from morning lows in the lower 40’s. It’s a “B” day! ___ Follow Jack’s weather forecasts, here: WEATHER WITH JOHN DONNELLY Jack Donnelly was born in Hialeah, Florida…

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Rhode Island’s last landfill is running out of room – ecoRI News

There’s no clear answer to what happens next by Rob Smith, ecoRI news staff Less than 5 miles west of downtown Providence lies the state’s biggest ticking clock. It’s not a real timepiece, it doesn’t tell you the time of day, although it’s not dissimilar to the sand that fills up an hourglass. Spread across…

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Women’s History Month reflection – Mary T. O’Sullivan

By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL, contributing writer “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself,” – Glinda the Good Witch On the last day of Women’s History Month, a fitting role model and women’s icon to honor is Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an equal rights lawyer and later, Supreme…

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Changes coming to HHS elicit strong response from aging network – Herb Weiss

By Herb Weiss, contributing writer, aging issues The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under management of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., last week announced a major restructuring and renaming of the federal agency under the initiative “Make America Healthy Again.” This dramatic reorganization follows Trump’s Executive Order, Implementing the President’s ‘Department of…

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Ask Chef Walter: Importance of fats in diets – Chef Walter Potenza

by Chef Walter Potenza, contributing writer Fats are not the enemy but an essential component of a healthy diet. They provide energy, support brain health, regulate hormones, and play a role in heart health. Friends: As a chef with years of experience, I want to share some personal notions about treating fats in my diet.…

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Rhode Island Weather for March 30, 2025 – Jack Donnelly

by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Our warm front slides eastward, but cloud cover and southeasterly flow keeps the temps down, highs only expected to reach the upper 40’s from morning lows in the upper 30’s with the chance for some overnight showers as another weak disturbance moves through. Our warm front slides eastward, but cloud cover…

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Mourning Sinwar – a short story by Michael Fine

By Michael Fine, contributing writer © 2025 by Michael Fine This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Asaf was thinking…

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