Progressive Charlestown

a fresh, sharp look at news, life and politics in Charlestown, Rhode Island

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Check out your local emergency room

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Be Prepared: Find the ER You Want to Go to Before an Emergency Happens by Lena V. Groeger If you live in Charlestown, here are your two...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Anti-vaccination mothers have outsized voice on social media

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Pro-vaccination parents could make a difference Brooke W. McKeever , University of South Carolina and Robert McKeever , University of Sou...

Our boy Brett

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From the RI Community Food Bank

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Common insecticide threatens survival of wild, migrating birds

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Neonicotinoids are harming more than bees. Brian Bienkowski for Environmental Health News Migrating songbirds exposed to small amoun...

Definitely don't go food shopping

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Don't make major decisions on an empty stomach University of Dundee We all know that food shopping when hungry is a bad idea...

States try to fill the void

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Bipartisan Corporate Crime Fighting by the States By Phil Mattera for the  Dirt Diggers Digest A  new report  from the Corporate Rese...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

There are lots of better places for projects than forests

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Hack Job on Green Space Diminishes Rhode Island's Future By FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staff This vacant plaza on Route 3 in Covent...

A new kind of Justice

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October 17 "Empty Bowls" fundraiser for RI Community Food Bank

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Students looking for a good buzz

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URI students tackle bee decline with lab, field studies Todd McLeish URI seniors Casey Johnson (left) and Danielle Butler pose w...

"Who did that!?!"

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Gutsy effort to produce comprehensive study of intestinal gases University of New South Wales A source of embarrassment to some,...

Here's how you create a conflict of interest, Trump-style

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Trump’s NLRB, Trying to Cut Protections for Millions of Temps and Fast-Food Workers, Trips Up Again By Ian MacDougall for ProPublica Und...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Can big business reform itself?

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No. By  Jim Hightower   Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote of being leery of a fast-talking huckster who visited his home: “The louder he...

They've suffered enough

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