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While our focus here has always been, and always will be, on the local events, people, and incidents that shape our daily lives, sometimes nationwide or worldwide events occur that require some level …
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7/25/24
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The Rhode Island Interscholastic League football schedules have been released for the upcoming season, and although I will be diving in much deeper as we get closer, I do have a few initial thoughts, …
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7/24/24
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We want to utilize this space this week to give Governor Dan McKee some credit. Not for magically making a new Washington Bridge appear out of the ether two years ahead of schedule, but for finally …
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7/18/24
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If a tree falls in the forest but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? We don’t have the expertise or requisite philosophy degree to answer that, but we do know one thing for …
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7/11/24
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The Fourth of July often serves as a time for family and friends to come together, through picnics, barbeques and firework shows. Children run to the beach while grandparents retell stories from …
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7/4/24
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Judging by certain responses to our editorial last week, there is plenty of political polarization to go around, even in dark blue Rhode Island. In divisive 2024 America, not even a relatively bland …
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6/27/24
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With the legislative session coming to a close last week, it seems an appropriate time to give a grade to Warwick’s own K. Joseph Shekarchi, the Speaker of the House since 2021.
When …
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6/20/24
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Found within Governor Dan McKee’s nearly $14 billion budget were plenty of items and priorities to be encouraged by, including an unprecedented investment in the creation of housing and a …
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6/13/24
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Hi.
This is my first full week as the new publisher of the Cranston Herald. In my wildest dreams, this is not a sentence I ever thought I would write.
As Herald Editor Rory Schuler reported …
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By JOY FOX
Cranston Herald Publisher
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6/6/24
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We are delighted to receive word that the Rhode Island House of Representatives will be moving forward a bill from Rep. Joseph McNamara during a vote this week to allow one member of the Rhode Island …
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6/6/24
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To the Editor,
Israel has to eliminate Hamas. That is the only just and proportionate response to the genocidal slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians that took place on October 7th, 2023.
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5/30/24
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“I’m a chlorine addict.”
Was I hearing Joe McGair correctly? Was he spending so much time in McDermott Pool that he actually has become addicted to chlorine?
Surely …
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5/30/24
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While it won’t yet be official as of the time of this writing, we have learned from credible sources that a bill currently in the Rhode Island legislature that would strengthen and bolster the …
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5/30/24
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STORY OF THE WEEK: In a sure sign that the end of the General Assembly session is approaching, House Speaker Joe Shekarchi slated a budget caucus yesterday afternoon at the State House. A memo this …
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5/22/24
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Spend enough time observing corporate American power structures and you learn a thing or two about when someone is on the right track toward enacting a decision that will help average consumers and …
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5/22/24
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With an overwhelming vote in favor of amendments to the existing Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights legislation, the state of Rhode Island has finally taken an important step towards more …
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5/16/24
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Our house has become a series of barricades. There’s the fence designed to keep toddlers in a room across the bottom of the stairs, the gate that isolates the kitchen and the table top procured …
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5/9/24
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Hope springs eternal this time of year — for lovers of warmer weather and scores of starry eyed students looking to make the next leap upwards in their academic or professional careers.
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5/9/24
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There’s no denying the arrival of spring once the cherry blossoms bloom and spiked cleats begin digging into the dirt at local Little League diamonds across the state.
This past weekend, …
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5/2/24
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The many issues with the American healthcare system are often so cartoonish, so overtly head-scratching and backwards, that it can seem silly and hopeless these days to even point them out.
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4/25/24
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