The House is getting ready to vote on whether to lodge articles of impeachment and rallies are being organized across the country by Impeach.org to show support for this on Tuesday. The headline in the ProJo accidentally said “Wednesday.” The following is my opinion of how to handle the impeachment and may not reflect that …
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Imagine waking up one morning to discover that you had appeared on one of your favorite comedy shows. Meet Alan Gunther, library manager of the Smith Hill Library and star of the most recent installment of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. [Watch the 17-minute segment now or the hamster thing won’t make any …
Welcome to the Ladies Room in the Rhode Island State House. This quote from Tacitus* reads “Rare felicity of the times when it is permitted to think as you like and say what you think.” Rare indeed. In the hope of more felicitous times ahead The Dose welcomes the newly rebranded and independent Rhode Island …
(2.24) [Update: The Senator has invited Mayor Elorza to join the event which means a wide-ranging variety of topics will be discussed, not just the future of our democracy.] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is holding a town hall this Saturday at Gaige Hall on the Rhode Island College campus. (Facebook event page.) Senator Whitehouse has a …
Fans of the Olympics are spending lots of time tuned to NBC. Unfortunately, unsuspecting viewers may suddenly find themselves accidentally listening to pro-Trump propaganda once the network breaks for the “local” news at 11pm. (Assuming that updates about Benghazi can be considered either local or news.) Sinclair’s notorious must-run segments are bare-faced Trumpist propaganda. It’s …
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(3.25) What would Dante make of the current administration. To which circle of hell would he condemn these creatures, they fit so many categories: thieves, hypocrites, sowers of discord, traitors against their country. This last one gets them all the way down to the ninth circle, frozen up to their necks in a lake of …
(2.12) All four members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation will host a town hall forum this Sunday at East Providence High School. The ProJo advises, “If the U.S. Senate is called into weekend session, the forum will be rescheduled for a later date in the near future.” I have it in my head that after …
Consider this an open letter to the Providence Journal. The people of Rhode Island need your newspaper. A lot is at stake here. Imagine what would go on in this state, and in the cities and towns, if the paper were to fold. With all due respect to the great investigative reporting done at the …