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 [...]
What’s Happening to Rhode Island’s White Collar Jobs?
Many of us in Rhode Island were glad to hear the news of Senator Whitehouse sponsoring legislation to help keep jobs in America, or at least reduce the monetary incentives for corporations to outsource their jobs to other countries. Senators Gillibrand and Schumer in New York also recently urged National Grid not to outsource IT [...]
From Despair to Courage
Several years ago, the Green family held a reunion in Montgomery, Alabama. My husband’s parents grew up in the nearby town of Selma, in the heart of the segregated South. They both traveled North in the late 1940′s, separately, to Louisville, Kentucky. They had grown up on adjoining farms, and after finding each other in [...]
Faith vs Guns
Today’s sermon by Rev. James Ford was dedicated to the life of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King. I understand when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated, after the police and FBI arrived, during all the confusion, people running around, agents trying to get a handle on what had happened, one agent informed his [...]
Some Will Rob You With a Fountain Pen
Okay, ya wanna see voter fraud? Let’s go back to Florida, 2000, when the presidential election was decided by 537 votes and a Supreme Court 5-4 ruling… TAMPA — Kelvin King was turned away from the polls here in November when records showed that he was ineligible to vote as a convicted felon. County election [...]
A Goofy Anniversary
Before the tragic and horrifying events of September 11, 2001 came to pass and made that date infamous, 9/11 was no more or less remarkable than most days out of the year. Historically, various lesser-known events have marked this day. In 1773, Benjamin Franklin published a satirical essay entitled “Rules By Which A Great Empire [...]
Providence, September 10
Friday, sunset, the eve of another September 11, a day that will never again be ordinary. I was working downtown in 2001, Providence is where I heard the news, watched the towers fall over and over on TV’s and video screens in Dexter Manor, high-rise housing for the elderly and disabled. I took a walk downtown this evening [...]
The President’s Speech
President Barack Obama marked the end of combat operations in Iraq with an Oval Office address. I heard it on the radio, just absorbing the words and the tone. The words were sober, the tone almost somber. I recently read President Nixon’s ‘Peace With Honor’ speech, marking our exit from Vietnam with nothing really accomplished [...]
America the Beautiful
Some music for the Fourth of July, one of our loveliest patriotic songs. Written in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates, an instructor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts… America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, [...]
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