Steve Stycos Year End Report: Ending Wasteful Spending, Opening Community Gardens, and Opposing Charter Schools
Ward 1 Council Member Steve Stycos reports on his excellent contributions to the city: YEAR END REPORT December 21, 2011 As 2011 comes to a close, I want to update you on my first year on the Cranston City Council and my goals for 2012. For the most part, the council works well. Debates are [...]
Doctors Who Don’t Read What They Sign are Scary
In a later post I will explain why, ‘Is Ron Paul a racist?’ is the wrong question to ask. Who knows what’s in his soul? And how much do we need to care? We’re talking about a politician here. A more useful question is why Ron Paul’s politics attract support from activists and groups that [...]
Laugh Out Loud
From Ellid via Daily Kos comes a tale of a Christmas service gone horribly wrong… Mum and I exchanged glances, and our friend June raised her eyebrows. June’s mother hissed, “This isn’t Lutheran!” and glared at the book fiercely enough that it’s a miracle it didn’t spontaneously combust in her hands. All around us people [...]
What’s Up With This?
For several blocks on Hope Street, the telephone poles are pasted with flyers in Russian calling on sinners to repent.
Dis-Obey
Last night I began my Christmas shopping. I survived a trip to the Providence Place Mall without getting foul-tempered. The trick was avoiding the parking garage, where cars were gridlocked coming and going, and inside shoppers were waiting in long lines to get their parking receipts. I saw a rack of Obey T-shirts at [...]
Solstice– Take Time for the Dark
The word ‘Solstice’ does not mean ‘return of the light’… Solstice refers to the two times of the year when the sun is closest to and farthest from the earth’s equator. The word itself is of Latin origin with “sol” meaning “sun” and “sistere” meaning “stand still.” The latter refers to the sun’s apparent stoppage [...]
Debt by the Numbers
Elaine Hirsch, Kmareka’s West Coast correspondent, sends us a disquieting post about the hard realities of the high cost of college. Thanks, Elaine for the research and for dealing with a tough topic– Statistics of Student Loans For many students enrolling in college, student loans are the only viable payment method that allows them to [...]
Blessed Solstice
Winter solstice takes place on Thursday, Dec. 22 at 12:30 a.m. EST. This lovely image is your tax dollars at work, from NASA.gov. The cool astronomical diagram is from the BBC. If you are even a little bit nerdy you will enjoy the explanation of how the seasons are measured. I never knew that winter [...]
Exploiting Human Resources
I’ll just post a link since Kristin says it all… My name is Kristin Rawls. I am thirty-one years old. I am not a drug user. I am not an alcoholic. My crime is that I went to school, and then I got sick. Today, I cannot even rent an apartment on my own without [...]
Christine Rousselle is Cuter than Ronald Reagan
Christine Rousselle has given the Republican Party an early Christmas present, wrapped in anecdotes, with a ‘Welfare Queen’ bow. She published an essay called, ‘My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform’. Rousselle, a 20 year old student at Providence College, worked summers at a Walmart in Maine, and discovered that the public [...]
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