USA v. Tammy Brown: Pre-trial hearing
In fewer than 10 minutes, the first pre-trial hearing in the federal Class B misdemeanor charges against Tammy Brown was conducted virtually beginning at 10:40am today. Motif and about 100 […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
How Sick Is the President?: We don’t know, and that’s disturbing
Donald Trump – the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief, the leader of the free world – is hospitalized with a life-threatening medical condition. COVID-19 has killed well over […]
Trump has COVID-19 and it’s not “karma” at all
Donald Trump, in his capacity as president, has spent now 10 months ignoring expert public health advice, opposing basic safety measures such as wearing protective face coverings and opposing curtailing […]
Tardy Tests: K-12 testing delay keeps teacher out of work
Natalie Andrus Fleming is a school psychologist based at the Asa Messer Elementary school in Providence. On Wednesday, September 16, the third day after schools partially reopened in Providence, one […]
Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Book review
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a rare example of the fortunate academic whose subject matter, through no actions of her own, becomes of intense public interest. What she spent a career studying […]
Math Behind Group Size Limits in the Pandemic
In RI, during the COVID-19 emergency Gov. Gina Raimondo has limited informal social gatherings to no more than 15 people and in-person school classrooms to stable groups of no more […]
COVID-19 Is Not Just the Flu
How deadly is COVID-19? How does it compare to seasonal flu? These are difficult and controversial questions. Above all, it should be emphasized that some sub-populations are definitely at much […]
Get a Flu Shot to Prevent a “Twindemic”: Health experts say vaccinations are more important than ever
“Twindemic” is the trendy buzzword for the nightmare scenario in the medical community right now: seasonal influenza rampaging at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic, two respiratory illnesses with […]
#RedAlertRESTART: Lighting Buildings Red on Sep 1 to Save Live Events
The live event scene, decimated for months by the COVID-19 shutdown of the economy, is holding a #RedAlertRESTART event on Tuesday, September 1, from 9pm to midnight, to illuminate the […]
Emancipation Day in PVD, Aug 1
Slavery ended throughout the British Empire on “Emancipation Day,” August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. Free Blacks in the United States began celebrating the anniversary […]