The opening ceremony for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi occurs at 8:14pm Sochi time. In the horoscope erected for that time, the first thing that pops out is Mercury, a mere 18 hours into retrograde motion, together in the sky with Neptune. Mercury is the planet of the news media, transportation and information of all […]
A Providence elementary school introduces a new initiative that focuses on school absences and aims to get children, who walk to school, there and on time. It’s the end of another school day at the Mary Fogarty Elementary School in South Providence and hundreds of kids scatter in different directions. Some take a bus home, […]
Letting go of the fear and muscling through the pain was all part of being able to deliver Rice Krispie Treats with love. What is Valentine’s Day all about? Is it just a silly lovers’ holiday that revolves around chocolates, flowers and obnoxious displays of affection? That’s all good and fun, but it all had […]
Seeing a live show at one of the many venues in Providence? Be careful where you park, even members of the band are getting towed. Okee dokee, folks … Never underestimate the kindness of strangers or the greed of an unscrupulous tow-truck driver. The human race never fails to baffle me. Animals are far more […]
Every school day, just after 8 o’clock, Gail Johnson leaves for her job as a crossing guard for the city of Warwick in her 2005 silver Cadillac with Rhode Island license plate XX-999. Johnson’s son, Joshua Brayman, is out the door most days well before his mom. He drives to work in Providence. His vehicle? […]
Universal health care is a noble idea. Not just from a humanitarian perspective, but economically – everyone who needs treatment becomes a burden on someone – their future earnings, through debt. Society, if they declare bankruptcy. Relatives, if they take responsibility, or the health care provider that took care of them, if their bills […]
It’s an established expectation that your employer will offer health insurance. The cost, logistically, of offering it on an individual basis used to make it excessively costly for insurance companies to offer it to individuals. But with the onus of managing the benefits moved to employers, it was more affordable through work. Now that […]
By Erica Deis My grandmother never went to college. She grew up in a time where college was for the wealthy. If a family had any money at all, the male child automatically took precedence. As brilliant as my grandmother was, it was expected for her to raise a family and take a […]
Healthcare for musicians One of the side effects of health care reform is that it’s likely to allow more competition in the plans offered. It makes side-by-side comparisons possible, and allows appeals to the end consumer, rather than focusing on brokered employer arrangements. Right now, RI has three providers of health insurance – Blue Cross […]
What Obamacare will mean for us If you read this in print, skip here for the stuff that didn’t make the paper. Health services are the third largest industry in the US (after oil and retail), and in RI it’s the largest single industry. That means a lot of bureaucratic momentum, and a lot of […]