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Board of Education retreat: the course is set 27 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm
On Sunday and Monday, the Rhode Island Board of Education held its annual retreat to discuss, among many other topics, the high school graduation requirements. This was a hot topic because it includes...
On the road with the NAACP for #MOW50 27 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
Onna Monia-John holds a banner that recently George Lima, a recently-deceased former East Providence representative and member of the Tuskegee Airmen brought home from the original March on Washington...
Affected parent recaps Ed. Board’s NECAP discussion 26 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
My friend Tina Egan and I spent our Sunday afternoon at the RI Board of Education meeting on August 26. I am very proud of Tina as she was one of the plaintiffs on the recent lawsuit that ensured suc...
Saturdays at the Pawtuxet Farmers’ Market 24 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
Farmers Markets are becoming a more integral part of communities all over Rhode Island, especially at the Pawtuxet Village Market in Cranston, Rhode Island. Every Saturday morning from 9:00-12:00 far...
Steal this speech (so it can continue to change world) 23 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Free speech was certainly a central theme of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech but evidently the heirs to his estate don’t interpret his dream to extend to free information as well. One re...
NAACP, RI Prog Dems and me celebrate MLK together 23 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Something nice is starting in Rhode Island tonight and here’s hoping it lasts longer than just the weekend. A bunch of lily white liberals like me and some members of the Rhode Island Progressive Demo...
Fixing RI Part 4: Moving toward A sustainable future 23 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
In this, the final installment of series on how to fix Rhode Island’s ailing economy, I will look at some next steps for moving forward. First, the story so far: I have outlined what Rhode Island’s le...
NecronomiCon Keynote Address: Lovecraft was an atheist 23 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Dr Stanley Lemons, the church historian for the First Baptist Church in America on 75 North Main St. here in Providence, Rhode Island opened the NecronomiCon with a short yet fascinating talk about H....
Fixing RI Part 3: What the green economy looks like 22 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
So far, I have looked at three “big ideas” our state’s leaders need to embrace, including changing Rhode Island’s trajectory by moving towards a sustainability economy. Yesterday, I examined some reas...
Great American hero: Antoinette Tuff 22 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
We’re quick to applaud physical and mental prowess, but it’s not often America has good reason to celebrate someone for a courageous act of compassion. But if school shootings are the saddest tragedy ...
