An extremely R.I. scandal: the head of the ACI allegedly having inmates manufacture novelty license plates for his friends www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Still interested in hearing from people about this, especially if yo found in a non-traditional way (like non-governmental apps)

Merry Christmas to the rival Christmas dinghies on Wapping Road

After everything, this is the thing that finally made me cry www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

The Brown student who was falsely accused - on X & elsewhere - of being the shooter has made a statement, and so have his lawyers. The student says: "Instead of grieving with my community...I received non-stop death threats and hate speech." Story via @antoniafarzan.bsky.social, in the ProJo.

McKee says emergency alerts didn’t go out because “there were not enough details on that first call” www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

There will be many lessons to take from the tragedy at Brown. One is this: spreading baseless theories and false accusations online causes real harm. Innocent young people have had their lives upended by reckless online speculation. It is damaging, and it must stop.

In case you (somehow!) missed it www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

Sources report Brown University gunman is dead www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

Providence Police in Salem, NH as hunt for Brown University shooter intensifies www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

ICYMI: yesterday, I wrote an op-ed for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social that tried to capture how these last few days in Providence -- my beloved hometown -- have felt. I also invited other PVD folks to share their own thoughts: [email protected].

Providence people - I’m working on a story about how residents first learned about the Brown shooting. Word of mouth, social media, official alerts? Feel free to DM me if you’re willing to share your experience (would need to use your full name)

may be biased because she's a friend, but this piece by @h-lev.bsky.social is the best piece I've read summing up the mood in Providence right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why didn’t PVD ask the state to activate emergency alerts? "We didn't, and looking back on it, we'll have to decide whether that's something that should have been done," Smiley said. "But in the moment we were communicating through every means we knew how." www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

This is important reporting from the Journal. And the headline is spot-on. It's unconscionable that Providence residents only got alerts from the city about a mass shooter at large *if they were opted in* to 311 alerts.

Sadly -- and somewhat ironically -- it was a Brown U. student who was wrongly accused of being one of the Boston Marathon bombers, in the aftermath of that crime.

Something I do want to point out is they used city RIPTA buses to transport students safely out of the area. A bus system that many people in our city government have been trying to gut. Buses are a public good that need to be protected.

Recommendation for PVD/RI holiday shoppers: this little treasure of a store, on the East Side of Providence.

"Department of Transportation officials have not publicly mentioned the fact that they asked their consultants to investigate building a new span," via @waveelection.bsky.social www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Quahog Museum: Ceramic soup tureen or cookie jar shaped like a quahog. This is the third one I’ve found, but this is the first one I’ve seen that’s pink.

"deciding the terminus of the bike path – as with adjusting beach parking or renaming the library or doing anything that involves the slightest bit of change in Narragansett – has elicited heated debate in town" www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

What I’ve been working on www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Tired: American Canto Wired: Johnston Elegy Pawtucket Soliloquy Burrillville Villanelle Cranston Sonnet Coventry Ode Warwick Sestina

Frank C from @ecorinews.bsky.social and I hiked in the ‘new’ Buck Hill forest in Burrillville and were gobsmacked by the rampant illegal off-roading we saw. Tons of trash and destruction of ecologically and culturally sensitive spots. Read about it: ecori.org/illegal-off-...

Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale, 1815 https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.733

From the estate of Providence Journal photographer Lawrence Millard of North Kingstown: ”Aerials,” circa September 1967. Scarborough Beach, Narragansett.

Westerly is looking for a corder of wood and weigher of coal, if anyone is interested

Julie Brown deserves a lifetime achievement award for her reporting on Epstein. No joke.

Day 16 - Cell Nearest Hill in Rhode Island The Ocean State is pretty flat, at least to someone who has lived in Appalachia for most of his life. The highest point is 244 ft. I sampled the elevation from a DEM & I mapped the nearest "hill" for anyone looking for a potential view. #30DayMapChallenge

Payback? Senate leaders say they're not behind challenges to colleagues who voted against them www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Thanks for this great, non-judgmental piece, @antoniafarzan.bsky.social . Especially the bit about "treats". Correlates well with this post:

"Melissa Cherney, CEO of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, said food pantries have seen demand double, if not triple. People are coming in and saying that they haven’t eaten in days." Via @antoniafarzan.bsky.social.

"'We are asking you to please consider donating $20 and RIPA [RI Pilots Association] will purchase a gift card in your name to area stores so these controllers can purchase food and the essentials they need during this unfortunate time,' the association said."

Behind the Story: The one and only @steveklamkin.bsky.social joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social + me to discuss his remarkable career in broadcast journalism. Shoutouts + full convo --> www.wpri.com/behindthesto...

Wow www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Wow car shopping for the first time in a decade is so depressing!!

Just learned that former Rhode Island Transit Riders co-director Patricia Raub has passed away. She was also heavily in the Friends of the Wanskuck Library group. I enjoyed every opportunity to work with her, and her loss will be felt heavily around here.

"'How can the Food Bank fill the gap?' We can't," writes RI Community Food Bank CEO Melissa Cherney in today's Providence Journal op-ed. "We don't have enough food or funds to replace the $29M in lost SNAP aid—or another $29M if the shutdown continues." Read more: tinyurl.com/9ex3kwtj

Municipal planners, key figures in community development, have become harder to find in recent years. With burnout and low pay driving planners to private sector jobs, communities are feeling this absence as they grapple with housing, sustainability and economic needs. pbn.com/shortage-of-...

Took Jasper to herd sheep for his birthday

Is there a support group for people who were born on Halloween but kinda hate Halloween? Asking for me

rhode island greening apples, painted by james marion shull, 1915

Reporter's query from me: Please feel free to pass this along.

Peak Richmond?

Behind the Story: @benberke.bsky.social joins @danmcgowan.bsky.social + me to discuss police reform efforts in Rhode Island. Shoutouts: @nancyklavin.bsky.social @antoniafarzan.bsky.social @aelennon.bsky.social Full discussion 👇 www.wpri.com/wpri-12-orig...

The wonderful Pawtucket Artist Eli Nixon is featured in a @providencejournal.bsky.social cover story by @antoniafarzan.bsky.social on pollution, shore access in South Providence, and a "beautiful, toxic, complicated little gem" on our industrial waterfront www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

www.newportri.com/story/opinio... Gov McKee’s campaign is drawing attention to this op-ed critical of pharmacy benefit managers

@antoniafarzan.bsky.social kills it with this story. It probably won't help people unwilling to understand what she clearly explained, but that's not her fault.

Rhode Island's "I'm an AG" lady should run for AG. The campaign slogan is already written.

Front page news! 📰 Yesterday's ProJo featured an article by Antonia Noori Farzan on our new CEO, Melissa Cherney. Last week she toured RI food pantries, seeing rising demand, limited supplies—and creative, dignified solutions in action. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/253bu9fx