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Roman Polanski, Unwanted and Undesired
2008-06-10 00:32:00 ?Father McGillicuddy would never do a thing like that.? you can hear the believers saying. Because to admit that he could and he did would take the roof off the church. Blaming a famous director for raping a child not only invalidates a lot of people?s meal tickets, it scares us. The only way to keep a comfort level is to blame the victim. More About: Human Rights , Law and Justice , Feminism , Roman , Roman Polanski
Cranston Comprehensive Plan Draft: Now Available Online
2008-06-09 19:17:00 As promised by the Planning Department, the drafts from sections of the Comprehensive Plan Update are now online for residents to download and review. The drafts of the following sections are posted online: Historic Preservation, Housing , Natural/Cultural Resources, Open Space, and Services & Facilities. The Introduction to the Comp Plan is also there. ... More About: Politics , Environment , Online , Draft
McFarland Will Not Seek Top Cranston Post
2008-06-08 16:41:00 Via Rhode Island’s Future, we learn that Paula McFarland is ruling out a run for Mayor of Cranston, citing the issue of lack of funding for the campaign. Matt Jerzyk posted the following statement, which I assume is from the Democratic City Committee in Cranston: …During these fifteen years Paula has served as a community ... More About: Post , Seek
Research on Preschool Ed with Executive Function Focus
2008-06-07 00:29:00 (Cross-posted from the blog on my private practice site.) An article in this week’s Newsweek by Wray Hebert describes some fascinating research being done on enhancing preschool education by focusing the curriculum specifically to improve executive functions. From the article: […] Psychologist Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia has been testing the EF concept in ... More About: Research , Executive , Focus , Function
The Uprising: Now Taking Place in a Community Near You
2008-06-05 18:38:00 David Sirota’s The Uprising takes the reader inside several pockets of change across the country, and gives us a fuller understanding of those who are working to build a stronger nation from the bottom up by acting on their anger at ineffective government, rather than just trying to tune it out. Whether ... More About: Elections , Education , Community , Corruption , Place
At Risk: Open Space in RI
2008-06-05 02:10:00 Let me start this by saying that if you’re not familiar with this website and email newsletter, you should definitely become so. The Natural News Network is ”Rhode Island’s own online magazine about your environment — the news and info you need to explore it, have fun outside, keep up with local issues, live greener, and ... More About: Politics , Elections , Environment , Space , Open
Mayoral Academies ? More Planning Needed
2008-06-04 22:49:00 Recently there has been a lot written in the Providence Journal and on Rhode Island’s Future about the proposed concept of “Mayoral Academies” — charter schools that can be created by mayors of cities and towns who want to offer new educational options for their communities. On the one side, Paul Bovenzi, a teacher ... More About: Planning
The End is Near for Clinton Campaign
2008-06-03 17:25:00 MSN has the story of Hillary’s aides saying she agrees that Obama has enough delegates. The Democrats may soon have their candidate to get behind. From MSN: Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be ... More About: Campaign
David Sirota on Stephen Colbert
2008-05-31 01:44:00 I’m reading “The Uprising” now and am hoping to have a review of it online by next weekend. More About: Colbert , Stephen Colbert , David , Stephen
Car Wash for Eden Park Elementary School
2008-05-29 20:11:00 I don’t know about you, but I’m loving all this beautiful weather. The only down side is the ton of tree pollen and other stuff all over my car. What better time than now for a car wash to benefit the education of our Cranston youth! WHAT: EDEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 5th GRADE ... More About: News , Education , School , Park , Eden
Bizarre Comment Gets Bizarre Reaction
2008-05-29 01:22:00 That Michelle Malkin sure knows how to get her name inserted in the headlines. It’s bizarre that Michelle Malkin would see murderous terrorist symbolism in a scarf on Rachael Ray’s neck. But what’s even more bizarre is that Dunkin Donuts would pull the ad based on the comment of one right-wing pundit. More About: Bizarre , Comment , Reaction
Napolitano is Done Being Mayor
2008-05-28 00:05:00 The Projo blog is reporting that Mayor Napolitano will not be seeking re-election. Apparently his family is missing him too much, particularly his wife and children. So now what? I had contacted the Mayor’s office about two weeks ago, asking for an interview with the Mayor on his re-election plans. I was ... More About: Politics
Evaluating a Threat
2008-05-26 16:06:00 Just a few preliminary words about why ?gotcha? phrases pulled from one person?s public statements are not automatically equivalent to another person?s. It?s essential to know the context. Working with the elderly, I hear many expressions of anger and depression from my patients. ?Don?t get old.? they tell me. (Having missed the chance to die young and ... More About: Threat
Just Wondering? (for May 26, 2008)
2008-05-26 15:29:00 ? …how President Bush and Senator McCain can in good conscience honor the memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of this nation (including the 4,082 American service members killed in the Iraq War ) and yet continue to oppose a new GI Bill that has strong bipartisan support. ? …why the United ... More About: Elections , Barack Obama , George W
Open Space Funding for Cranston
2008-05-25 05:32:00 On the docket for Tuesday night?s Cranston City Council Meeting (the Council is meeting on Tuesday this month due to the Monday holiday), is an Open Space & Development/Restoration Bond Referendum Request that is co-sponsored by Council Vice-President McFarland and Councilman Navarro. Council Members McFarland and Navarro are sponsoring this resolution and hope to ... More About: Environment , Funding , Open Space
America?s First Blow for Freedom
2008-05-25 05:31:00 Do you know what ?America ?s First Blow for Freedom ? was? If you?re like most Rhode Islanders, who live outside of Cranston and Warwick, then the answer more likely or not is no. That?s sad because it means that the majority of Rhode Islanders are unaware of the important role that Rhode Island played ...
New Study on Meditative Mindfulness and ADHD
2008-05-24 21:38:00 (This is cross-posted from my private practice site.) Sharpbrains.com, one of the sites in our Technology & Helping Kids blogroll, has an article by Dr. David Rabiner in which he reviews some new research on teaching mindfulness meditation to teens and adults, and how study participants with attentional problems were helped by learning and practicing these ... More About: News , Education , Health , Study , Mental Health
Gonna Watch Some TV
2008-05-24 15:55:00 On Sunday night, at 9pm on HBO. I want to see ‘Recount’ because I saw the trailer and it looks good. Laura Dern as Katherine Harris with a Southern accent! I saw Dern in ?Citizen Ruth?, a very cynical movie about abortion. She played a glue-sniffing pregnant woman. She was great. I always regarded the ... More About: Elections , Watch , Gonna
Whitehouse Casts Vote Against David Hill
2008-05-22 14:38:00 Sheldon Whitehouse continues to advocate for more attention to science at the Environmental Protection Agency. In a vote of 10-9, David Hill was rejected as the legal counsel for the EPA. From the Whitehouse press office: Whitehouse Vote s to Reject Bush Appointee for Top Legal Job at EPA Washington, D.C. ? In an expression ... More About: Casts
Some Good News for Once
2008-05-22 14:18:00 As soon as I find my glasses I?m going to clip this article from the science section of the New York Times. ?Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain? When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies ... More About: News , Good News , Good
For Their Country
2008-05-22 14:15:00 This year I?ve been within a handshake reach of more politicians than I ever met in my life. John Kerry was at Obama headquarters downtown before the primary, with Linc Chafee and other dignitaries. On election day I was holding an Obama sign next to Myrth York and Sheldon Whitehouse, whom I regret to ... More About: Elections , Country , Barack Obama
My Valuable Family
2008-05-22 02:16:00 Actually, the stories of gay lovers who are thrilled to be able to legally marry after decades together doesn?t rob me of anything. It gives me a romantic buzz. And as an old Star Trek fan I send George Takei and Brad Altman my best regards. Here is from George?s blog… The California Supreme Court has ... More About: Family
Bush-League Plays
2008-05-19 16:56:00 Two hundred and forty-six days. Thirty-five weeks from tomorrow. That’s how much longer this nation must endure the reign of King George and await the term of a new President. Let’s hope that whoever swears to faithfully execute that office and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution actually honors that solemn ... More About: Bush , George W , Immigration , League , Plays
Why are We Still Depending on Oil?
2008-05-19 01:13:00 This video raises the question of why we continue to depend on oil when clear alternatives exist and could be developed to bring on sustainable and renewable energy. Watch, learn, and advocate for better energy policy in the US, before we all go broke and ruin the world by pigging out on oil.
I Always Knew Flamingos Were Gay
2008-05-18 02:30:00 And now a scientist says so, so that proves it. According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others. If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn’t eliminated this ... More About: Science and Technology , Gay Rights , Animal Behavior , Flamingos
Blogs Drive the Media to Cover Environmental Justice
2008-05-15 16:11:00 Is it just me, or are the blogs helping to drive the agenda when it comes to front-page news? A couple of months ago, we posted about the environmental justice movement in Rhode Island. Alex Moore has posted extensively about it at Rhode Island’s Future. Now it’s front-page news at the Projo. I ... More About: Media , Education , Environment , The Media , Justice
Life of Sacrifice ? The Journals of Cindy McCain
2008-05-15 04:03:00 June 3, 2007?A month at my estate in Aruba. John should be here if his merchant vessel is on schedule. How I?ve missed him. Don?t tell anyone, diary, but I expect him to spend the night in my suite. Not like last year, when he slept in that thatch hut on the beach. More About: Politics , Elections , Life , Sacrifice , Journals
Nancy Carriuolo Chosen as RIC?s Ninth President
2008-05-15 03:34:00 As a female, who is not only a professional in the field of Student Affairs, but also an active alumna of Rhode Island College, I was very pleased to hear that the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education chose Nancy Carriuolo to succeed President John Nazarian as the ninth president of Rhode Island ... More About: Feminism
Slow Start to Cranston?s Comp Plan Update Process
2008-05-15 02:45:00 Last night was the first public workshop to discuss the updated draft of the 1992 Comp rehensive Plan . The good news is that Director of Planning, Peter Lapolla, said that he has never been to a Comp Plan update workshop with more than 15 people; I estimated that there were at least 40 people in ... More About: Start , Update , Slow
Hard-Working White Woman for Obama
More articles from this author:2008-05-15 01:12:00 Even if you can?t get a date, you are presumed to be a sexual libertine. You have to listen to white people like Don Imus affect a ?black? accent. Then when you, a black person, try to speak, you can?t get heard because you?re not saying what you?re expected to say. More About: Elections , Barack Obama , White , Feminism , Obama 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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