Epidemiology Map
Valerie Brown, of Alternet, takes apart the official reassurances that ‘no immediate risk’ of harm from radioactive exposure is the whole story. On a spring day in 1975, the first words I heard as I rose through the fog of anesthetic were “it was malignant.” I was twenty-four years old. A couple of months earlier [...]
Update on Edgewood Community Garden from Steve Sycos
There is progress being made in finding a plot for the community garden, as it detailed below by Steve Stycos: Friends, Community garden plans are progressing. We are focusing on the southeastern corner of the Edgewood Highland parking lot. Annemarie Bruun discussed the project with Rich Pederson, who runs Southside Community Land Trust’s City Farm. [...]
Can This Marriage be Saved?
Dr. Laura Gallagher, from the distinguished Think Tank and Anti-Advocacy group, GLUM(MUN) (Gays and Lesbians Undermine Marriage and Make Us Nervous) takes questions from real readers who bare their hearts and air their dirty laundry so we can be entertained and enlightened. And get blog hits. Thank you, Dr. Gallagher, for guest blogging here. Readers [...]
Better News
Heard on the radio today that 2 of the 6 Fukushima reactors are under control. A lot of good people are putting their lives on the line for this, and a lot depends on it. I hope they are successful, and that we will look closely at all the aspects of the worldwide energy crisis [...]
Japan in the Fog of Crisis
This morning from the Houston Chronicle… FUKUSHIMA, Japan — An unexpected spike in pressure inside a troubled reactor set back efforts to bring Japan’s overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that so far minor contamination of food and water is spreading. The pressure increase raised the possibility that plant operators may [...]
Why it Matters
Because the same re-assurances from experts, the same doubts that were disregarded as alarmism, the same ‘pragmatism’ that allowed reckless policy in the name of science and profit are behind the push to expand nuclear power today. Robert Peabody died almost fifty years ago in a nuclear plant that was sold as state of the [...]
Rhode Island’s Nuclear Fatality–Part I
This is in memory of Robert Peabody, a husband and father working a second job to support his family, assigned to a dangerous task in an unsafe workplace, poisoned by a nuclear reaction. There are lessons to learn, may we not forget them. It’s been almost thirty years since the Three Mile Island disaster put [...]
Thinking of Japan
It’s been a crazy day, riding around on potholed roads listening to the radio. Reports from Japan of people without shelter in freezing temperatures, without water, food, electricity. Without any idea of what the next day will bring. Japanese architecture, I’ve always heard, is based on centuries of experience with earthquakes. No doubt the crisis [...]
RICLAPP hosts Third Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser
Hear ye, hear ye! The Rhode Island Center for Law and Public Policy (of which I am a board member and treasurer) is having its Third Anniversary Fundraiser and Celebration on Thursday, March 24, 2011 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. The party will take place at Waterplace Restaurant, One Finance Way, Providence. There will [...]
We Can’t Fire Poverty….
This quote from Diane Ravitch helps frame the issues we are facing in Rhode Island as we all await the announcements of school closures in Providence, and hopefully start repairing the damage done by the mass firing letters. This comes from a statement Ravitch made about the firings of the teachers in Central Falls last [...]
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