Justin Katz
You know those small portrait pictures that newspapers include with stories after they’ve continued from the first page — so that the reader can gain the context quickly from the familiar faces? Well, seeing Obama’s and Britney’s pictures accompanying the same story in today’s Providence Journal, I wondered how many papers around the country have…
With my children not yet to the age at which I might have to consider battles with their teachers for their young mathematical souls, my opinion of the “new math” isn’t sufficiently strong to inspire rants. Still, such statements as the following raise fundamental questions: One problem, [Pat Cooney, math coordinator for six public schools…
Tiverton’s public hearing on charter-related questions potentially to be placed on the next ballot didn’t let out until after 11:00, Monday night, although many in the audience (including the Providence Journal’s Gina Macris) left after the headline-grabbing debate over the future of the financial town meeting had ended. I stayed so late — despite dying…
Given past experience with the vulnerability of our trash receptacles on garbage day, we should have known better. We shouldn’t have run out of garbage bags. The children shouldn’t have filled an unlined can. My wife shouldn’t have put that can out on the street to be emptied into the truck. But it seems to…
With continuing interest in a visible rift in Tiverton politics, I’m at the public hearing at the high school at which the town council will decide which suggested change to the town financial meeting will appear on the next ballot. The current discussion is whether the town council has the authority to take the charter…
Statements such as this suggest that Obama (probably among many Democrats and some Republicans) either doesn’t think comprehensively when it comes to strategy or is anxious to diminish America’s importance as an agent for change: … the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” contended that the decline was brought about not…
I just noticed that Jonathan Pincince has translated his experience with the Rhode Island Law Journal blog to his campaign for school committee in South Kingstown. As an intellectual matter, I’m not sure I buy his reasoning for running as an Independent, but from what I’ve read of his over the past couple of years,…
Wholly with the intention of making light of an increasingly threatening strain in the opposition’s demeanor, I offer the following for your chuckling amusement. The sad thing is that the picture isn’t doctored. The redeeming thing is that it’s thirteen years old. (Fortunately, the hairstyle simply wasn’t possible in Rhode Island’s Ocean State atmosphere.) (The…
Just wanted to note my observation that the Providence Journal Sunday help-wanted section is now up to two-and-a-half pages. Gone are the days when the job seeker would be dizzy after scanning column upon column of inapplicable jobs.
