Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Taking a short break

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Message from the Editor By Will Collette I'm taking a bit of a vacation from Progressive Charlestown. I'll still post important anno...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The people want bread and circuses. They will definitely get a circus

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It's hard to accentuate the positive, but I will try By Will Collette The Charlestown Citizens Alliance (CCA) got whipped again by Charl...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Progressive Charlestown readers ask: “Where’s my daily summary?”

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It’s still there, but different By Will Collette This is the top part of the last daily summary sent out with the old system Last summer...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Reflections on 2018

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An awful year and 2019 could be worse By Will Collette As most Progressive Charlestown readers have noticed, I have written far less than...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Are Google and Facebook Responsible for the Medical Quackery They Host?

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They make it easier for fake science on vaccines, AIDS, autism to spread.    Who’s really to blame?   By Michael Schulson B iswaroop Roy...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Studying the death of democracy

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Universities join forces on Brown-led course on why democracies fail Gillian Kiley , Brown University S hortly after the 2016 presiden...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Yeah, they’re pigs

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How social networking sites may discriminate against women Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Social ...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

We Need Journalists

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Real reporters who do real news By Will Collette In this commentary, I’m going to piggy-back on a great piece by Providence blogg...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Serve them with fava beans and a fine chianti

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What Do You Do with Trolls? By Diane Ravitch Long-time readers of this blog know that we have had a more or less steady procession of...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Wonder if the CCA blog is a target?

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Justice Dept Takes Aim At Violent ‘Far-Right Extremists’ On Social Media By Charles Topher We’ve all seen the hateful posts, despic...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Job opportunity for Mike Chambers

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StudentsFirst Launches Astroturf Group to Write Blogs and Be Trolls on Social Media By Diane Ravitch AlterNet reports that Students...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

April Fool!

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We'reeeee BACK! OK, maybe a few of you figured out that last night's post was actually this year's April Fool's joke. Good...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

UPDATED: Goodbye and Good Luck!

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Progressive Charlestown – the Final Edition By Will Collette The Gray People have finally won.... Well, we made it just past f...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Attention Cyber-bullies

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Degradder, the wearable insult watch By Jen Sorenson Hey Mike, Cliff! You need this! Click here for the details.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Do NOT let Jenny McCarthy use the internet

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Opinions on vaccinations heavily influenced by online comments Washington State University, Science Daily An example from Facebook ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

A full plate of Charlestown Tapas sizzle

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News briefs from Progressive Charlestown By Will Collette Yet more problems at nearby Millstone nuke Conservancy closes land deal,...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Nukes, numbers and nuts lead off this week's Tapas

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Charlestown Tapas - tasty nuggets of news By Will Collette NRC finally steps up oversight of Millstone nuclear plant The Nuclear...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Why DOES that cat want dilithium crystals?

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Captain Kirk versus the Internet By Tom Tomorrow Click here for my favorite Tom Tomorrow cartoon to date. OMG! ROTFL! NSFW! ICYMI! EOD...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Charlestown Tapas

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Fourteen  Fifteen quick takes for busy readers By Will Collette Where are the red light cameras? I passed along a Channel 10 re...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

VIDEO: Charlestown Tapas

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Lots more tasty tidbits of local news By Will Collette Misquamicut Beach project starts late As of April 23, no sand had been moved ...