The Roots Report: Getting into the Swing of 2016
Okee dokee folks … have we all settled comfortably into 2016? Hands? I have successfully written the date a couple of times on checks, and I made no resolutions, so […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Hummel Report: Year-End Updates
Editor’s Note: As The Hummel Report puts the wrap on another year of investigations, Jim Hummel has new developments on a handful of investigations, beginning with the case of a […]
Phillipe and Jorge’s Cool, Cool World: Lack of Ethics Abound
Affluenza, Little Rhody-style “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald No shit, Sherlock, er, F. Scott. Unfortunately that […]
HealthSourceRI — Three Years and Counting
Health care has been in a state of very rapid evolution for the last three years, sparked into mutation by the comet strike of the Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA, aka […]
3D Organ Printing: Life in a Lab
When I tell friends that I think their grandchildren might live for hundreds of years, they usually think I’m kidding around. While I spend a fair amount of my life […]
Reinstating Good Samaritan: A Step in the Right Direction
In July 2015, Rhode Island’s Good Samaritan Law, which granted individuals who alerted emergency services to someone overdosing on drugs immunity from prosecution, was allowed to sunset. Lawmakers in the […]
Alt-Nation: In Mourning
I had planned to start with a brief tribute to Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t include a few words about David Bowie, whose passing […]
Got Beer? Some Sobering Words About Beer
Here are some wise (and diverse) words to live by: “Drink responsibly.” “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.” “The brewery is the best drugstore.” “Alcohol is the anesthesia by which […]
David Bowie’s Blackstar – A Weird Star is Born
I found out about Bowie’s death just a few hours after turning this review. In retrospect, Blackstar is the kind of swan song only an unpredictable innovator like him could’ve […]
