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RI closer to changing state name over slavery
I didn't know this. You learn something new everyday. PROVIDENCE, R.I.Rhode Island Gov Vetos Same Sex Funeral Rights
AP) Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed legislation Tuesday that would give same-sex couples in Rhode Island the same right to plan the funerals of their late partners as married couples. The socially conservative Republican said the proposed protection represents a "disturbing trend" of the incremental erosion of heterosexual marriage.Rhode Island Sunset
One of my favorite pictures from a recent trip to rhode island. I was using my Nikon D90 which I LOVE!
Do You Live in a Healthy or an Unhealthy State?
If you want to be healthy, live in Vermont—or at least act like you do. It is the healthiest state in the country, according to a new report from the nonprofit United Health Foundation.
The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths.
Cat predictions
Oscar, a two year old cat adopted by a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center can sense when patients are close to their death and in their final hours, he curls up next to them. Like doctors and nurses he does his rounds everyday and has not been wrong in his prediction thus far. Read the whole story here.Democrats Push To End Insurers' Antitrust Exemption
In the ongoing health care overhaul drama, the Obama administration and the health insurance industry have gone from uneasy allies to bitter adversaries. One result is that health insurers stand to lose a privilege their industry has enjoyed for the past 64 years: They, like Major League Baseball, have been exempt from federal antitrust laws. Congressional Democrats are now pushing to strip the health insurance industry of that exemption.States letting inmates cut even more prison time
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military.Some sliver of a silver lining from the ‘stimulus” bill, Charter Schools.
School Choice Even Obama Supports By RiShawn Biddle As a presidential aspirant last year, Barack Obama gained the support of the National Education Association -- and the scorn of school choice activists -- when he declared his skepticism of the school choice and accountability measures in the No Child Left Behind Act. Then in the early months of this year, the newly-elected president further pleased teachers unions when he tacitly allowed congressional Democrats to shutter the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Plan, the school voucher program that helps 1,716 Washington students attend private schools -- even though he avoided sending his own children to D.C.'s abysmal public schools.Some sliver of a silver lining from the ‘stimulus” bill, Charter Schools.
School Choice Even Obama Supports By RiShawn Biddle As a presidential aspirant last year, Barack Obama gained the support of the National Education Association -- and the scorn of school choice activists -- when he declared his skepticism of the school choice and accountability measures in the No Child Left Behind Act. Then in the early months of this year, the newly-elected president further pleased teachers unions when he tacitly allowed congressional Democrats to shutter the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Plan, the school voucher program that helps 1,716 Washington students attend private schools -- even though he avoided sending his own children to D.C.'s abysmal public schools.Hillary Clinton speech after winning Rhode Island, Texas, and Ohio. Pt 2
Part 2 includes shoot outs to Chelsea and Bill.
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