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With Sympathy
2008-05-13 19:25:00 A member of the Providence progressive community who is known and loved by many has suffered a loss. Nomi from ?I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Last Night? sent me an email that Phil Edmond?s mother died this week after a long illness. If you know Phil, you will want to give him your sympathy. Here ... More About: Spirituality
Show Your Papers
2008-05-13 01:03:00 I thank my parents and dumb luck that with all the moving around I?ve done I still have my original birth certificate. If I had spent my youth in foster homes, survived a house fire, or had a moment of carelessness during the stress of packing and moving I might not be able ... More About: Show , Papers
Bipolar Disorder on the Rise? Maybe Not So Much
2008-05-12 15:30:00 Now we just need another study on the overdiagnosis of bipolar in kids, and we’ll have two studies pointing us in the right direction. From the Projo: A major swing in diagnosing bipolar disorder By Felice J. Freyer, Journal Medical Writer A few years ago, Dr. Mark Zimmerman, a psychiatrist at Rhode Island Hospital, started noticing that ... More About: Bipolar , Rise , Bipolar Disorder
Music Can Improve Executive Function and Mental Health
2008-05-12 02:11:00 (Cross-posted on my private practice site.) I have been thinking about music recently, ever since a colleague of mine questioned whether there is scientific proof of the effectiveness of music therapy. Hence, I started doing a little Googling on the subject and learned about a kind of therapy for ADHD called “Interactive Metronome.” ... More About: News , Music , Health , Mental , Mental Health
Just Wondering? (for May 10, 2008)
2008-05-10 16:26:00 ? …now that the vultures are circling the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and the superdelegates are vamoosing from her so as not to be mistaken for carrion, whether she is feeling bitter and, if so, whether she will cling to guns and religion or simply continue to sow the seeds of racial divisiveness. ? …what 178 ... More About: Politics , Elections , Race , Civil Liberties , 2008
Lynch and Kennedy Launch ?Vote for Change?
2008-05-09 21:30:00 Voting and civic participation have never been more important. Barack Obama knows this, and so do our local leaders in the Democratic party. From the Obama Campaign: TOMORROW: U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Attorney General Patrick Lynch to Launch ?Vote for Change ? in Rhode Island Providence, RI ? The Obama campaign announced today that Attorney ...
David Segal?s Party?Way Too Crowded
2008-05-09 15:05:00 I got an internet invitation to a fundraiser for David Segal. I vaguely remembered that he had once belonged to the Green Party . I have to say that any politician who tries to get my vote by naming his party after me gets an ?A? for effort. Too bad I didn?t live in his district. But ...
Help Cranston Plan a Better Future
2008-05-08 19:29:00 Next Tuesday, May 13, the city of Cranston’s planning department will hold a meeting to get public input on the Comprehensive Plan . The meeting will take place in Cranston City Hall, Council Chambers, at 7 pm. This meeting will focus on updating the 5-year comprehensive plan, particularly in the areas of Housing, Natural ... More About: Environment , Future , Open Space
Sister Mary Voteless
2008-05-07 15:00:00 Amazing that Barack Obama did so well in Indiana despite the Rev. Wright ?scandal?. Despite Sen. Clinton, who I had respected for supporting the Million Mom March against gun violence, re-creating herself as a hard drinker and scourge of ducks everywhere. Despite a supreme court ruling that disenfranchised Indiana voters disproportionately Black, young, handicapped ... More About: Mary , Sister
Paula McFarland May Run for School Committee
2008-05-07 14:57:00 The Projo is reporting today that Cranston city council member Paula McFarland is considering running for school committee. From the Projo: CRANSTON ?? Forced out of office by term limits at the end of the year, City Council Vice President Paula B. McFarland says she is weighing a run for the School Committee . McFarland, who is ...
Steven Bloom Responds on Cranston?s Budget
2008-05-06 16:57:00 Steven Bloom provided this response, with attached spread sheets: I appreciate all of the comments and criticisms regarding my proposal and would like to specifically address some of the comments. I?d like to reiterate them for clarity: 1. It generally seems as if he targeted the highest-paid city staffers and suggested their elimination, but took no such ... More About: Education , Finance , Budget , Steven
Obama HQ Re-opens
2008-05-06 14:50:00 Word is out on the internets tubes that Barack Obama is pursuing a 50 state strategy for a Democratic victory in November. Could it be true? Apparently the campaign kept the lease on the office on Westminster St. (where Westminster Mall used to be, next to URI). A grand re-opening is planned for this ...
Just Wondering?
2008-05-05 18:56:00 ? …whether Hillary Clinton will be even more determined to stay in the presidential race after witnessing what happened to the runner-up in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. ? …how a nation that owes its success and vibrancy to immigrants can be so indifferent or cruel to immigrants, even to the point of dismissing their deaths ... More About: Bush , Elections , George W , Immigration
Mildred Loving?Courageous and Sadly Missed
2008-05-05 17:33:00 There are still those who want to turn the state to support their personal morality, and they feel that affirming individual rights takes something away from them. They feel robbed and disrespected, because people who are different from them are equal under the law. More About: Loving , Courageous
Geoff Schoos Analyzes Local School Funding Politics
2008-05-04 15:53:00 In his column this week in The Cranston Herald, Geoff Schoos offers some piercing analysis of the social dynamics being enacted in Cranston (and probably elsewhere) as communities scrabble over the dwindling funds for education and other services. From The Cranston Herald: I?m sick and tired? Over the past seven years, our schools have been starved ... More About: News , Politics , Education , Finance , School
Muy Loco Parentis
2008-05-03 19:19:00 Why do so many politicians, particularly when they are running for office, feel compelled to treat the electorate like children? Why, when they open their mouths to expound on matters of policy, do they offer us pablum when our guts ache for more substantive fare? Why do they seek to divert our attention ... More About: Politics , Elections
Preaching to the Terrorized ? An Allegory
2008-05-03 15:17:00 Jesus walked up close to Rev. Bright and whupped him on the side of the head. ?Haven?t you ever heard of ?context??? asked the Lord. ?How can you expect to reach people?s hearts and minds when you?re throwing a holy hand grenade at them?? More About: Allegory , Preaching
Olson and Kutner Research Video Games and Violence
2008-05-02 22:49:00 (This is cross-posted from the blog on my private practice site.) In 2004, Lawrence Kutner, PhD, and Cheryl K. Olson, ScD, cofounders and directors of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media, started doing research on the effects of video games. With $1.5 million in federal funding from The US Department of Justice, ... More About: Video , Video Games , Games , Research , Violence
The Fine Art of Blogging in Rhode Island
2008-05-02 04:32:00 Ian Donnis does us all proud with an in-depth look at Rhode Island ’s blogs: Matt Jerzyk launched his Rhode Island?s Future blog in January 2005 because, after having worked locally in community- and union-organizing, ?I saw first-hand how difficult it was to pene-trate the media cabal with progressive stories of hope and change.? After two months ... More About: Elections , Fine Art , Blogging
Bitter Religion?What Would MLK Do?
2008-04-30 15:00:00 Former President Jimmy Carter is an evangelical Christian. It was just lucky for him that when he ran for president in 1976 he had his Jesus credentials in place. All our politicians were suddenly born-again, and the voters were acting as if they were born yesterday. Since then, displaying religion is right up there with ... More About: Religion , Bitter
Let?s Go Green
2008-04-29 21:46:00 That’s the tabloid in today’s Providence Journal. Our good friends at Natural News Network are providing content, with great articles by Mary Grady and others about how to live well without wasting money or energy. Mary writes about how to reduce your carbon footprint and save on your electric bill, and Caroline Brown explores locally ... More About: Environment , Green
Steven Bloom Provides Cranston with Fiscally Sound Budget
2008-04-29 17:01:00 UPDATE: Steven Bloom attended the city council’s special meeting last night about the 2007-2008 deficit in the Cranston schools. He states in an email: “The forecast is worse than predicted by about $1.1 million which is partially offset by School District reserves of about $500,000.” Click here to see the School ... More About: Elections , Education , Finance , Sound , Budget
Cultivating Relationships
2008-04-26 20:51:00 I realize now that it is not enough to care about the earth, to defend it with words and charitable donations from those who would abuse or exploit or deplete it. It is not enough to treat the earth with gentle respect and reverence, as I journey across its woods and valleys and peaks. ... More About: Environment , Relationships
Whitehouse Joins Senate Dems to Push Voter Registration
2008-04-24 16:41:00 This year’s elections provide an excellent opportunity to improve voter registration. To that end, Senator Whitehouse is working with other Democrats in the senate to “ensure all eligible Americans have the opportunity to register to vote.” Washington, D.C. ? With November?s elections drawing closer, several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed concern today that ... More About: Registration , Push
Media Math = Rounding up to Double Digits
2008-04-24 01:30:00 Remember that joke about right being ?military left?? Maybe there is a media decimal system that is different from the one I learned in high school. Following a lead from Daily Kos I went to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania elections webpage. With 99.44% of results in, Hillary Clinton has 54.6% of the vote and ... More About: Media , Double , Math
Mayor Nap?s Starvation Diet for the Schools
2008-04-23 00:18:00 Andre Araujo lamented in his comments today that the turnout for the Cranston school’s information meeting on their budget crisis was “dismal.” Truly, if there was a situation where Obama’s “bitter” seems to be revealing itself front and center, it would be in the apathy of parents in Cranston. Parents are just so ... More About: Diet , Schools , Mayor
Donald Carcieri Walks off With the Keys Again
2008-04-21 20:49:00 So who?s really in charge in case something needs to be decided? The Gov. says he has his red cell phone on him even when he?s swimming. You can?t expect him to be accountable the way ordinary working stiffs like us have to be. More About: Donald , Keys , Walks
Geoff Schoos: Smart Ways to Reform RI Corrections
2008-04-20 02:17:00 Geoff Schoos has an interesting column in this week’s Cranston Herald about what the state could do to save money on incarceration and bring non-violent ex-offenders back into the economy. I’m reprinting the column here for educational purposes, and because for some reason his column is having formatting problems on the Herald’s website and ... More About: Reform , Smart , Corrections
City Council Meeting April 22 ? More Education, Please!
2008-04-18 16:17:00 It’s time to fight for the right to quality education for children in Cranston. School committee member Steve Stycos gives a good rallying summary for why it’s important for parents to come out for Tuesday’s meeting: If passed by the Cranston City Council , Mayor Michael Napolitano?s budget will be a disaster for the schools. ... More About: Education , April , Meeting
Elizabeth Roberts Won?t Stop Talking About Health Care
More articles from this author:2008-04-16 22:15:00 And why should she, really? The more I read, the more frightened I get. The news yesterday was that as the baby boomers are hitting 65, our already failing health care system is becoming totally swamped. So what’s a future-minded Lt. Governor to do? Why, hold a series a community meetings, ... More About: Health , Health Care , Care , Talking , Stop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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