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Friday, April 3, 2015
Weekend pollen count due to hit "moderate" range
If you are allergic to tree pollen, prepare to be a little uncomfotable this weekend...
Challenging the Governor's cockeyed approach to Medicaid
By in Rhode Island’s Future
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| Fitting the facts to suit her corporate sponsors |
Two single-payer advocacy groups,Rhode Island Chapters of Physicians for a
National Health Program (PNHP) and HealthCare-Now, have prepared a report that is highly critical of GovernorGina Raimondo’s Reinventing Medicaid initiative.
The PNHP/HCN-RI report
identifies five areas of concern and concludes that “Governor Raimondo has made
it impossible” to achieve the goal of developing “a plan to improve the quality
of care Rhode Islanders receive and reduce the costs for Rhode Island
taxpayers.”
The areas of concern cited in the analysis are:
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Primiano gets ousted
Controversial, though popular, Parks & Recreation
Director forced out
By Will Collette
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| Jay reading from his new book at the Charlestown Land Trust's Farmer's Market. Read the review HERE. It's pretty good. |
Next Wednesday night, the Charlestown Town Council will
discuss the departure of Jay Primiano as Director of the town’s Parks and
Recreation Department at a closed-door executive session prior to setting the
agenda for the April 13 Town Council meeting.
Sources tell Progressive
Charlestown that Primiano, long a target of attack by leaders of the
Charlestown Citizens Alliance (CCA Party), has been forced out though the reasons and terms and conditions that have not yet been disclosed.
Primiano is a member of the quasi-union of Charlestown
department heads and as such, has some contract and bargaining rights that will
have to be honored unless the Council has found some basis to dismiss him for
cause. That seems unlikely since there have been no public actions taken
against Primiano. One source tells me Primiano signed the separation papers today though I cannot confirm that. Jay has not responded to my request for comment.
Town Department heads were instructed to stay mum about
Primiano’s ouster, if not keep it a secret. Yeah, like that's going to happen in Charlestown!
New at the Charlestown Gallery
April 2 - May 31st, Spring
Group Exhibition / Made in USA
40
Regional Professional Artists.
Coalition gears up to fight local pipeline
Filed
for formal federal status today
From Peter
Nightingale, Fossil Free Rhode island
Kingston, RI — Individuals, grassroots groups and towns from the four states adversely impacted by Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) natural gas pipeline expansion project have formed a coalition to file a Request for Rehearing after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the project on March 3, 2015.
The coalition engaged DC attorney,
Carolyn Elefant, who filed the request on April 2, 2015, asking FERC to vacate
the Certificate.
Bad News for lobster lovers
Lobster
growth rates to decline under increasing ocean acidification conditions
KINGSTON, R.I. – April 1, 2015 – The growth and molting rates
of juvenile lobsters are likely to decrease significantly as the oceans become
increasingly acidic from climate change, making the animals more vulnerable to predation
and leading to fewer adult lobsters being available for harvest.Those are the results of a four-month laboratory study conducted by University of Rhode Island doctoral student Erin McLean. “I’m not sure yet what the mechanism is that is affecting their growth,” she said, “but it takes energy for them to regulate the increased acidity, which is energy they cannot then put toward growth.”
In any campaign, you have to plan ahead
Giant Screwup By Ted Cruz Will Make You Literally LOL
The Canadian born Ted Cruz has
announced he is officially running for the presidency in 2016, and the hits
keep coming. I’m sure Cruz’s announcement had to have made Bush,
Walker and the rest of the GOP clown parade very happy. He takes crazy to
an entirely different level, which would give ALMOST anybody
else an edge in the Republican primary.
Seems to me if you are going to be
running for President, you, or someone working for your campaign, would have
remembered to registered the domain TedCruz.com. Even if Cruz were not running for
the highest office one would have thought as a United States Senator he would
have registered his own name. Oops!
Clear
your area of anything that could be spilled or spit out as not to damage your
electronics before you take a look at what you see when you click on Ted’s
name below.
Fair-warning,
it’s hysterical.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Final Peeps® push, Narragansetts testify before Congress, Taylor Swift tax and other crazy politics and lots of new job postings
New plate of
Charlestown Tapas for the discerning reader
By
Will Collette
Things
you never knew about Peeps®
Easter
is less than one week away. For me, the main reason to celebrate Easter is
marshmallow Peeps®, pretty much a forbidden food since I learned that I am
diabetic. But it’s great having them around, stale of course, in case of low
blood sugar episodes.
Anyway, I am not the only one with Peeps® on the mind,
evidenced by all the Peeps® diorama contests (click here and here for examples. The folks at Mental Floss
did their part to contribute to our greater understanding and appreciation of
Peeps® with this insightful list of “Twenty Delicious Facts About Peeps®.”
Narragansett
leader testifies before US Senate
Narragansett
Tribal Council member Randy Noka
traveled to DC to give testimony before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on the
so-called “Carcieri Fix” on March 25
The "Carcieri Fix" is legislation that would declare the clear intent of Congress that the
nation’s laws on the relationship between Indian tribes and the
government apply to all tribes, and
not just those who have been federally recognized prior to 1934.
Starts April 16
URI
Theatre presents Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”
KINGSTON, R.I. –The University of Rhode Island Theatre
Department is proud to announce the opening of “As You Like It,” by William
Shakespeare.Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy was first published in 1623 and remains a favorite among modern audiences, having been adapted for radio, film and musical theatre. The play centers on Rosalind, who flees persecution in her uncle’s court while accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone, the court Jester, to find safety and love in the Forest of Arden.
“As You Like It” will run April 16 through 18 and April 23 through 25 at 7:30 p.m., with additional showings April 19 and 26, at 3 p.m. in J Studio of the URI Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road on the Kingston Campus. General admission is $20, tickets cost $15 for seniors, URI faculty and staff, and $12 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at Tickets or by calling (401) 874-5843.
April Fool!
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 for you because that's what it was.
Progressive Charlestown lives and will hopefully be around to get up in the face of our local aristocrats for a good deal longer.
We now resume our normal programming....
OK, maybe a few of you figured out that last night's post was actually this year's April Fool's joke. Good for you because that's what it was.Progressive Charlestown lives and will hopefully be around to get up in the face of our local aristocrats for a good deal longer.
We now resume our normal programming....
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