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Holy Cow ? The Giants Won
2008-02-04 04:12:00 I didn’t know who was playing in the Superbowl until yesterday, but I must admit enjoying the last half hour of the game. Plaxico Burress made an incredible touchdown catch for the Giants to win the game 17-14. Happy Superbowl. Better luck next year for the Patriots. UPDATE: This was another incredible ... More About: Sports , Holy , Holy Cow
An Exclusive Interview with Myself?Part 1
2008-02-02 23:10:00 DAVID: Our readers haven?t heard much from you lately. What have you been up to? MYSELF: Well, contrary to rumors, I have neither joined a monastery nor involuntarily taken up residence at Guantánamo. I?m just waiting out the winter here in Western Massachusetts, working four days a week as a Juvenile Court clinician. ... More About: Elections , Humor , Environment , Exclusive , Interview
Seeking Environmental Justice in Rhode Island
2008-02-02 16:49:00 Yesterday I attended the state’s Environment al Justice Community Network meeting. It was hosted at a very interesting place downtown called New Commons. They are doing many innovative things at New Commons besides facilitating environmental justice. Next week, as part of their “Soul at Work” series, they are hosting a screening of a ... More About: Education , Rhode Island , Environmental
A Note to Readers and Commenters
2008-02-01 22:07:00 I know you have all tolerantly been stopped by the spam police all week while commenting on the blog, and I apologize. I think I have finally gotten my spam filters properly coordinated and, for regular contributors, comments should now appear without being held up. For newbies to Kmareka, the first comment will ... More About: Wordpress , Readers , Note
Cranston Schools 8-16 Million in the Hole
2008-01-31 16:35:00 The quote from Superintendent Scherza just kind of says it all: “It is really not a good time to be a child living in Cranston and going to the Cranston schools.” The Cranston schools are projecting between an $8 and $16 million dollar deficit, and that’s on top of the $3.8 million they ... More About: Education , Finance , Schools , Hole , Million
Coventry Legislator Ejected
2008-01-30 16:04:00 And I thought we got a little hot under the collar here in Cranston. We got nothin’ on Coventry. Last night, Rep. Nicholas Gorham had to be escorted out by the police. From the Projo: COVENTRY ? A meeting last night of the Town Council, the School Committee and the community?s legislative delegation, ... More About: Politics , Humor , Education , Finance
Council Endorses Cullion Settlement
2008-01-30 00:45:00 The Cranston City Council passed a non-binding resolution in support of the proposed $1.9 million settlement. David Scharfenberg of the Projo reported on the meeting here: CRANSTON ? The City Council approved a resolution last night backing the proposed $1.9-million buyout of the controversial, half-built Cullion Concrete Corp. batching plant in the Eden Park neighborhood. The ... More About: Environment , Open Space , Settlement
Margaret Truman Dies at 83
2008-01-29 22:39:00 Sad news: Margaret Truman , the only child of former President Harry Truman, has died. In reading through her the story on MSNBC about her life, I was struck by this quote: ?I?ve had three or four different careers,? she told an interviewer in 1989. ?I consider being a wife and mother a career. I ... More About: Dies
Kmareka?s Blog Gratitude List ? January 29, 2008
2008-01-29 16:01:00 In imitation Nomi Hurwitz, I would like to offer more gratitude to the world, and in an effort to do this, I would like to write an extended “thank you” to someone every week. There are many gifted, generous, and generally under-appreciated people in the world, and I am on a mission to honor ... More About: Blog , January , Gratitude , List , 2008
Laffey Gave Giuliani $9,200
2008-01-28 18:42:00 A reader has tuned me in to an interesting device at The New York Times that helps you find out who gave money to which presidential candidate. You just enter a zip code and pick a candidate. So far, I have learned that Steve Laffey (and his wife) gave Giuliani a total of ... More About: Elections , Finance
Lettin? Our Freak Flags Fly
2008-01-27 18:11:00 So happy to see that the voice of freedom is up again, because the thought police are messing with me. For over two years I have been standing out on South Main St. holding a ragged cardboard sign with the latest from the New York Times ?Names of the Dead? count every Saturday. I ... More About: Freak
Cranston News on Concrete and Education
2008-01-27 00:30:00 Jesse from Cran ston writes with some news, predictions, and opinions on the Cranston scene: Just wanted to remind you that the city council will be taking up Emilio’s resolution on the $1.9 m proposed payment to Cullion. I’m sure many people will want to attend this meeting. Here’s a news flash for you: The school committee has ... More About: News , Education , Concrete
Plan to Increase 6th Grade Classes at Eden Park Nixed
2008-01-25 15:47:00 PTO President for Eden Park Elementary School, Liz Iacobucci, provided the following update on Wednesday regarding the 6th grade move. The school committee has backed off on its plan to send Waterman’s 6th grade to Eden Park. From the email: Parents, Yesterday Deb Griefer visited Eden Park to see for ... More About: News , Education , Classes
Get Your Free Money Here!
2008-01-19 22:03:00 I just assumed they were printing up Bush Bills in the basement. More About: Finance , Money , Free
Stormy Weather on the Stock Exchange
2008-01-18 19:01:00 President Bush is in a tuxedo talking to his base, ?the haves, and the have mores?. I wonder if his popularity sinks a bit when the stock market tanks like it did this week. All those valuable families losing dividends. More About: Weather , Exchange , Stock , Stormy , Stormy Weather
Cranston to Move 6th Grade Back to Elementary School
2008-01-18 14:10:00 The Projo reports that the School Committee approved the plan to move the 6th graders in Cran ston back into the elementary schools by a vote of 5 to 2. While many people are concerned about this, we in Eden Park have particular reason to be concerned, as last night it was also proposed that, to solve ... More About: Education , Back , Move
As the Markets Get Manipulated
2008-01-18 01:00:00 UPDATE #3: After making a new back-up of the site yesterday, I found that the spam issue had impacted the comments sections. Therefore, and much to my dismay, I have closed the comments on posts temporarily while the spam problem is fixed. We are making progress and hope to be back to ... More About: Markets
Sign Katha Pollitt?s Letter
2008-01-17 08:47:00 Well-known feminist and writer Katha Pollitt has written an open letter about whether American feminism is taking an unfair bashing for not focusing on global issues enough. Here’s the letter. An Open Letter from American Feminists Columnists and opinion writers from The Weekly Standard to the Washington Post ... More About: Sign
Meditations on Dr. Laura
2008-01-17 04:39:00 According to one of her professors, she spent most of her doctoral training time "pulling fat pads off rat testicles." More About: Humor , Meditations , Laura
Trailer Testicles
2008-01-16 14:41:00 The billboard lobby probably has more cojones with politicians than the truck testicle industry. More About: Trailer , Testicles
More Fame and Glory for Little Rhody
2008-01-16 14:00:00 ...the Dr.Laura action figure. More About: Humor , Psychology , Fame , Social Work , Glory
God Wants You to Send Me Money
2008-01-15 02:04:00 I had to explain that you can?t hex a person you only know as ?someone connected with this address?. More About: Finance , Money , Spirituality , Send
The Discarded Weapons of War
2008-01-13 17:56:00 Can anything psychologically prepare young men and women for the demands and stresses of serving in a combat zone, sometimes for multiple tours of duty? It seems doubtful. The intensity and horror of wartime experiences?of repeated exposure to violence and death, and the threat of violence and death?are often more than the human ... More About: Weapons
Fear of a Black President
2008-01-13 15:47:00 You know, no one remarks wonderingly that Sen. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ?clean?. More About: President , Black , Fear
Cranston Teacher?s Alliance: ?Stop Runaway Train!?
2008-01-11 13:47:00 UPDATE: School Committee member Andrea Iannazzi has provided some more information: - The School Committee will be voting on two separate resolutions. The first, scheduled for a vote on Monday (1/14), states “SPONSORED BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATION NO. 08-1-2 RESOLVED, that the 6th grade classes be housed in the elementary schools ... More About: Train , Stop , Teacher , Alliance , Runaway
Daily Body Count?January 10, 2008
2008-01-11 02:53:00 3,901 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq War. 151,000 Iraqis who have died of violence in the first three years of the war 100,000 ... More About: Daily , Body , January , Count , Body Count
Be Presidential?Keep it Clean
2008-01-10 18:10:00 I am not sorry that Hillary is still a contender. When I was really turned off by her compromising style of politics, someone would make a misogynist attack on her and I?d be tempted to vote for her just to spite them. More About: Presidential , Clean
Shock Therapy from Dr.Phil
2008-01-10 04:10:00 You know, Britney Spears really is sick, and the public can?t get enough of the reality meltdown. It’s kind of like watching a human sacrifice. But it’s a great opportunity for an opportunist. Although Dr. Phil — whose full name is Phillip McGraw — announced Monday that he is shelving plans for a ... More About: Shock , Therapy , Dr Phil , Thera
Predictions 2008
2008-01-09 01:49:00 Why spend money on the Enquirer or the Globe, when you can get ridiculous predictions for free at Kmareka? However, if any of these come true, you heard it here first... More About: Predictions , 2008
Cranston Doctor Finds Fame and Glory
More articles from this author:2008-01-08 14:43:00 Cranston is on the map, now. More About: Fame , Doctor , Glory , Cran 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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