Save RIPTA
For all my voting life I have been pulling the lever for transportation bonds that put big bucks into highways. I do it to authorize the pocket change for public transit included in the small print. Being both a car owner and bus rider I say it’s time to balance the funding and build up [...]
Pediophobia
Friend Kathryn has a story that will make you afraid to open your closet, or walk past it, or live in the same house where the closet is, or look in the rearview mirror as you drive desperately away from the house… Click here if you dare.
Jobs Not Cuts
Standing for Workers So we’re standing on the State House lawn once again, this time for the working and unemployed Americans who are left out of the budget decisions– except as targets for austerity. I came more to talk to people and not feel so alone with despair over what the past two weeks have [...]
Local Artist Explores the Alaskan Wilderness
Rhode Island artist, Kathy Hodge, is kayaking to a remote island on the Alaskan coast to experience the landscape first-hand. She has already encountered a polar bear and taken photos in close-up. See them here.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Sunshine, and embracing nature with all of your being has its hazards… A 30-year-old man who slept nude on a boat dock suffered second-degree burns on 40 percent of his body and was taken to the hospital by helicopter, according to Austin-Travis County EMS spokesman Warren Hassinger. The man jumped in Lake Travis, near Mc [...]
Verse for Governor Rick Perry
Some improving words from the Bible– 12And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house [...]
Short Memory
Rep. Paul Ryan, on the vanguard of Medicare privatization, had this to say on Fox News, via Crooks and Liars… Rep. Paul Ryan said Sunday that S&P’s downgrade of U.S. credit was a “vindication” Republican actions and his budget plan, which would end Medicare as it exists today. “I am not very surprised with the [...]
A Small Victory at the Pharmacy
It doesn’t matter what you do for a living, when someone in your family is sick you lose your cool. I’m trying to make sure my Dad gets all he needs, and grateful for six brothers and sisters tag-teaming as well as ADL home nursing on scene. I spent some phone time last week with [...]
Sweet News
Some rare good news on the state of the ecosystem–Urban bees are flourishing. As an example, this photo of my bee garden, otherwise known as ‘weeds’… With the world decline of honeybee population, an unexpected habitat is booming: the urban bee. Cities around the world –like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York City, and San Francisco–are [...]
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