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Kmareka.com: Generational Curse

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:44:07 -0500

Afghanistan looks like our new Vietnam. Forty years ago we listened to solemn generals and wise advisers tell us that our survival depended on victory. Countless survivors of that war, here in the US and all over Southeast Asia bear the scars. I’m feeling grief. I’m not a pacifist, but [...]

Projo Subterranean Homepage News: Prune cookies: A family heirloom holiday recipe

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:45:28 -0500

My colleague Beth Heaney has only one specialty cookie, passed down from her grandmother via her Aunt Anna. She says they're such a tradition in her family that if she showed up for a holiday without them, "Everyone would just stare at me like I forgot the'" [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Six injured in crash on Mineral Spring Ave. in North Providence

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:18:27 -0500

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Police charged a 24-year-old woman with running a red light Friday after a three-car crash on Mineral Spring Avenue that left six people injured.

Police said rescue workers had to use a pneumatic device to extricate one of the victims, Christine Bailey, 30, a passenger in a [...]

GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence: Leon Krier lecture (12/03)

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:32:51 -0500

LEON KRIER
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Lecture & Book Signing
5:30pm-7:30pm

De Ciccio Family Auditorium (Salomon 101)
Brown University Main Green
Providence, RI 02903

Leon Krier is one of the most influential architects and urbanists practicing in the world today. In lectures, writings and design projects, he [...]

GC:PVD | Greater City: Providence: Pedal powered Christmas Tree in Copenhagen

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:47:20 -0500

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As they prepare to host the United Nations Climate Conference next week, Copenhagen has installed a pedal powered Christmas Tree.

Via inhabitat

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Kmareka.com: Rhode Island’s Future is Dark

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:31:50 -0500

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Rhode Island’s Future website is down today. For repairs? I miss them, hope they get the bugs out soon. [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: East Providence school janitors' pact saves $1 million

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:01:19 -0500

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In exchange for job security, school custodians and maintenance workers have agreed to less sick time, higher health-insurance contributions, six furlough days and several other concessions that will save the school district more than $1 million over the next three years.

The City Council accepted the [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Teens arrested with out-of-gas car in E. Greenwich

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:50:00 -0500

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. -- Two Massachusetts fugitives, 19 and 15, were arrested early Wednesday as they tried to put gas into a stolen car that had run out of gas, East Greenwich police said Wednesday afternoon.

Late Tuesday night, a Warwick police officer reported a disabled vehicle at Exit 8A, on [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: N. Providence fire station shuttered sooner; union sues

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:39:15 -0500

By Mark Reynolds
Journal staff writer

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor Charles M. Lombardi surprised the local firefighters union Wednesday morning by shutting down the Douglas Avenue Fire Station in Geneva 24 hours sooner than fire fighters had expected.

By mid-afternoon, the union was in Superior Court seeking an injunction to [...]

Projo 7 to 7 News Blog: Crew blames captain for April attack on Maersk Alabama

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:31:38 -0500

By John Curran
Associated Press Writer

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Richard Phillips, the ship captain toasted as a hero after he was taken captive by Somali pirates, ignored repeated warnings last spring to keep his freighter at least 600 miles off the African coast because of the heightened risk of attack, [...]