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Projo recants, admits not everything sucks
2:40AM ON
12/30/2007
BY
Dave Segal
And Scott Mackay’s no blindly cheery dude, either. So there must be some okay stuff going on:
Yet 2007 wasn’t all traffic jams, layoffs and plea bargains.
Rhode Island colleges and universities were rated among the most prestigious in the United States, our health-care system is one of the nation’s tops, and philanthropist Warren Alpert left Brown University’s medical school $100 million.
Providence continued its rebirth as a hip center of culture, entertainment, hospitality, medicine and culinary excellence. The state’s violent crime rate, already one of the nation’s lowest, went down, childhood poverty dropped, and the once-threatened piping plovers made a comeback on Rhode Island’s sandy southern coast.
The billowing majesty of the Tall Ships filled Newport Harbor under a shimmering June sun. Our theater groups were among the region’s best. In a country that lives by the 21st-century religion of velocity and worship of the new, we venerate the past and dwell in cozy neighborhoods in houses from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Sports fans from New York to Los Angeles are envious of the success of our beloved New England franchises — the Sox, Pats, Celts, Bruins, PawSox and P-Bruins.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:07AM
Oh, wait, everything actually DOES suck. | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] David commented last week on an unusually cheery column from the ProJo’s Scott MacKay. As I skim the ProJo website tonight, however, things look pretty damn grim. Here’s some extremely dreary evening news: [...]