From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal: Recent Episodes
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A collection of interviews, press conferences and news actualities from the Newsroom of the Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island.
Formally known by the more unwieldy title of "The Providence Journal March and Two-Step," the composition followed a national trend at the intersection of music and newspapering.
The music was composed by John Fitzpatrick. While still a boy, he got a job playing piano at Shepard's Department Store. While still a boy, he got a job playing piano at Shepard's Department Store.
Fitzpatrick, John J, "Providence Journal March" (1900). Parlor Salon Sheet Music Collection. Score 1479.
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Drivers killed three pedestrians on North Main Street over the past year. Now, members of a new city task force are trying to figure out why the thoroughfare is so hazardous, and what can be done to make it safer. Journal staff writer Amy Russo reports.
His father, a farmer, lost 200 acres to the reservoir project in the 1960s, and when Breene wanted to buy his own dairy farm later, he ended up having to buy land outside the management area. “I’d rather be down on Big River.”
“I always felt bad, because some people had some beautiful places and figured they had to get right out because the reservoir was supposed to be built in the early '70s. Some of the people who were older could have just stayed there, the way it all turned out, and finished out their lives where they were happy.”
Jo-Ann Lemaire talks about her husband Frank outside the old gray house. The summer wind swirls her hair as she remembers his feelings about the reservoir project
Nellie Gaye, who was homeless and hungry as a child in her native Liberia, discusses establishing the One Less Worry program, which provides free food to people in need. The program is based at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Providence.
@GWayneMiller #podcast for @projo. Story, photos and video at providencejournal.com
Imagine there was a way to prevent potential pandemics by accurately predicting how they might unfold, which would enable policymakers and medical and public health officials to act to stop them long before reaching crisis stage.
Brown University School of Public Health epidemiologist Mark Lurie describes a major new initiative that he heads that aims to make this possible.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and images at providencejournal.com
The more than 3,000 Rhode Islanders lost to COVID were memorialized Saturday with a display of thousands of white flags on the State House lawn and a ceremony that opened a week during which the flags will remain in place. The display was created by artist Suzanne Firstenberg, who explains its purpose here. NOTE: This was recorded outside, so there are background sounds.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for The Providence Journal; read the story and see photographs here.
Interim state Health Department director Dr. James McDonald is resigning. In this interview, he explains his reasons.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejounal.com
Speaking at a forum during Brown University’s commencement weekend, former state Health Department director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott discussed health equity, the COVID-19 pandemic, her admiration for former Gov. Gina Raimondo and her staff, and the leadership qualities she says are needed to head public-health agencies. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and academic dean of Brown's School of Public Health.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo, story at providencejournal.com
Mary Marran, president and COO of Butler Hospital, discusses the crisis in the state’s behavioral health care and disabilities systems and a path toward reform.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo Story at The Providence Journal
PASCOAG -- Jim Whiteside lives about as far into the woods of northwestern Rhode Island as you can get without being in another state.
Which would not be remarkable until you learn of the multiple health challenges that limit his vision, hearing and mobility.
But thanks to a community health center that makes house calls and provides transportation to office appointments, Whiteside, a retired social worker, remains independent in his home of many years on pristine Wakefield Pond, near Buck Hill.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story and video at providencejournal.com
Dr. Dean Roye, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at Rhode Island Hospital; Dr. Kenneth Wood, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Lifespan; Dr. Mitchell Levy, Director of Critical Care Medicine for Lifespan; and Dr. Jeremiah Schuur, Physician-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine for Lifespan, discuss Lifespan leaders discuss the fourth surge and staffing shortages.
From a virtual press conference held on December 9, 2021. Stories at providencejournal.com
Brown University School of Public health epidemiologist Mark Lurie discusses the omicron variant threat. “In times of uncertainty, it’s better to be overly cautious than under-prepared,” he says.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and video at The Providence Journal
Brown University's School of Public Health is embarking on a study designed to assess the broad impact of Long COVID, the post-acute coronavirus disease syndrome that affects millions in America alone. Dean Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the methodology and uses for the research, which is supported in part by a grant from Hassenfeld Family Initiatives, headed by former Hasbro CEO and chairman Alan G. Hassenfeld.
@gwaynemiller #pocast for @projo -- video and story at providencejurnal.com
Simple. Inexpensive. Effective.
These are among the virtues of an ingenious do-it-yourself air-filtration system designed to protect against COVID-19 and other viruses that Brown University students were assembling Friday afternoon in Alumnae Hall under the watchful eye of Brown School of Public Health dean Dr. Ashish Jha.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
The COVID pandemic has affected the mental health of untold millions of Americans and residents of other countries. And in this continuing public-health crisis, which is linked to rising suicide rates the world over, it has never been more critical to talk openly and seek professional help when warranted.
“Pay importance to your own mental health and with the people around you, look for early signs [of difficulties], talk to them and refer them for care if needed,” advises Dr. Shekhar Saxena, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former head of the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
Saxena is this week's guest on "Story in the Public Square," the national public-TV and SiriusXM show that is a partnership of The Providence Journal/USA TODAY network and Salve Regina University’s Pell Center.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - providencejournal.com
Neil Steinberg and Jane Hayward discuss the Rhode Island Foundation report on the proposed merger of Care New England and Lifespan, to be affiliated with Brown University.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Martha L. Wofford, president and CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, and Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, discuss the 2021 Rhode Island Life Index.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Christa Thomas-Sowers, community outreach coordinator for Community Care Alliance, discusses Rhode Island's statewide behavioral-healthcare and mental-health workforce crisis - and what it means for needy people who are forced to go without vital services.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com https://bit.ly/3FDAWYT
Exeter's Dawn Dove, a Narragansett/Niantic elder, talks about the steps including vaccinations that she and her family have taken to stay safe during the pandemic -- and the amazing gift given her and her young grandson as the seasons changed from fall to winter and then spring, when nature came alive.
@Gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Dawn's story and the stories of how a scientist, a nurse, a pastor, a mother and daughter, and a restaurant owner have fared since March 2020 at providencejournal.com
When the Rev. Chris Abhulime discusses his job as Gov. Dan McKee’s deputy chief of staff, equity is the dominant topic.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejournal.com
At a time when white supremacists deny that the Holocaust occurred and stickers of former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have been posted in Bristol, scholar Wendy Lower’s appearance this week on “Story in the Public Square” could not be more timely. This week on "Story in the Public Square." Story at providencejournal.com
Leading Alzheimer's scientists Drs. Stephen P. Salloway, Butler Hospital, & Chuang-Kuo Wu, Rhode Island Hospital, discuss FDA approval of new drug aducanumab.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and video at providencejournal.com
Dr. Saul N. Weingart, the new president of Lifespan's Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals, discusses challenges, successes and the future.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejornal.com
Nationally renowned addiction specialist Dr. Josiah D. “Jody” Rich, of Miriam Hospital and Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, discusses medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder and the four components of successful recovery: health, home, community and purpose.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
CODAC head Linda Hurley and client Anthony Perito discuss opioid addiction and the help that is available, including talk therapy and medication assisted treatment, or MAT.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com.
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cristina Pacheco discusses the challenges and successes of caring for patients during the coronavirus pandemic. NOTE: At some points, there is the background sound of a camera clicking as The Journal photographed Dr. Pacheco.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Joined by his sister, Kara Sweeney Guerriero, Rafe Sweeney, 53, discusses living with mental illness and his ambition to help others when he finally is released from the hospital back into the community.
@gwaynemiller #Podcast for @projo - Story and video at providencejournal.com
Rhode Island Department of Health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and Thomas McCarthy, head of the department’s COVID-19 unit, discuss the local impact of pausing administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which has caused six adverse reactions, including one death, elsewhere in the U.S.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story at providencejournal.com
Tim Gray is this week's guest on Story in the Public Square, the weekly national PBS TV and SiriusXM program cohosted by Journal Staff Writer G. Wayne Miller and a partnership of The Providence Journal and the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. In the southeastern New England market, the show airs at 11 a.m. on Sundays on Rhode Island PBS and is rebroadcast Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.. Listen now to the podcast.
Dr. Chuang-Kuo Wu, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Lifespan’s Rhode Island Hospital, and associate director Dr. Jonathan D. Drake, provide guidance to people living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias and their caregivers – and give an update on research.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo story at providencejournal.com
McMichael, a veteran of the Providence Fire Department who left to become chief here two years ago, is having to deal with the fallout from former Mayor Joseph J. Solomon’s decision not to grant the department’s request to fill 14 vacancies.
'Ultimately Things Will Be OK'
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin reflects on the pandemic year of 2020 and looks ahead to the rest of 2021, 2022, and the first few months of 2023. On April 1 of that year, Tobin will turn 75, the age at which the Vatican requires bishops to submit their retirement.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Butler Hospital and Brown University psychiatrist Dr. Christine Montross specializes in the treatment of people living with severe mental illness, including in teh state prison system. On this episode of Story in the Public Square, Montross, author of Waiting for an Echo, exposes the wrongs of imprisoning such vulnerable people.
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“Story in the Public Square” broadcasts each week on public television stations across the United States. A full listing of the national television distribution is available at this link. In Rhode Island and southeastern New England, the show is broadcast on Rhode Island PBS on Sundays at 11 a.m. and is rebroadcast Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. An audio version of the program airs Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. ET, Sundays at 3:30 a.m. & 11:30 p.m. ET on SiriusXM’s popular P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States), channel 124. “Story in the Public Square” is a partnership between the Pell Center and The Providence Journal. The initiative aims to study, celebrate and tell stories that matter.
It’s been one year since the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the globe. Dan Barry reminds us that behind the headlines and the previously unimaginable counts of cases and deaths, there are stories of individual lives interrupted and, all too often, cut short by the pandemic. Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter and best-selling author Barry is this week's guest on Story in the Public Square, the national Telly-winning PBS TV show and SiriusXM Radio program brought to you by The Pell Center at Salve Regina University and The Providence Journal. For air times and more, visit https://pellcenter.org/the-pandemic-behind-the-headlines-with-dan-barry/
This week on Story in the Public Square: Rhode Island resident Amy Bruni, paranormal investigator and co-star of the Travel Channel’s hit show, “Kindred Spirits,” and previously on “Ghost Hunters.” She is the author of “Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I learned about Ghosts.”
Telly-winning Story in the Public Square is broadcast coast-to-coast on PBS and an audio version is available from SiriusXM Radio. In the southern New England market, the show airs on Rhode Island PBS, the show's flagship station, at 11 a.m. on Sundays, with rebroadcast Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. For other stations and times, visit https://pellcenter.org/story-in-the-public-square/story-in-the-public-square-find-your-local-station/
Story at providencejournal.com
If you have ever visited the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter -- and many people from Rhode Island and beyond have -- you can appreciate the preservation and celebration of Native American history, culture and art that is the mission of the center, founded in 1958 by Princess Red Wing, who was of Narragansett and Pokanoket-Wampanoag descent.
You also may appreciate the profound need for a new museum home.
And so it was with excitement that Lorén Spears, Tomaquag’s executive director, on Friday announced plans for a new one, on 18 acres of rural land owned by the University of Rhode Island near the school’s Kingston main campus.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and video at providencejournal.com
Butler Hospital child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Tammi-Marie Phillip discusses the mental health challenges many kids are facing in the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We've been seeing significant depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms a lot,” she said. “And a higher frequency of kids who are coming in because of suicide attempts -- and very serious suicide attempts… We've been seeing more irritability and aggression in the home. We've been seeing more psychosis as well.”
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – stories and videos at providencejournal.com
You may have seen him on TV, providing expert insight into the #COVID-19 pandemic.
You may have listened to him on The Providence Journal/USA TODAY weekly podcast, “COVID: What Comes Next,” or read his commentary and guidance on these pages and in other publications.
Now you can interact with #pandemic expert Dr. Ashish Jha virtually, thanks to Boston’s Museum of Science, which married artificial intelligence to days of Jha’s actual time to create an online version of the scientist equipped to answer your #coronavirus questions.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejurnal.com
Central Falls Councilwoman Glendaliz Colón discusses the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com
Maria Rivera, mayor of Central Falls, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com
Dr. Michael Fine, Chief Health Strategist for Central Falls, discusses the economic, education, housing, health and social disparities underlying the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com
Lorén M. Spears, executive director of the Tomaquag Museum and a woman of Narragansett and Niantic descent, discusses the anticipated nomination of Native American U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland to head the Interior Department and other issues of interest to Indigenous and all people as President-elect Joe Biden builds his administration.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story at providencejournal.com
Jeff Cartee, executive vice president of Junior Achievement of Rhode Island, says the program has endured because it has evolved with the changing labor market.
It was 20 years ago that surgical and medical teams from Hasbro Children’s and Women & Infants Hospitals in Providence, R.I., joined to become New England pioneers in correcting twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a potentially fatal and previously unfixable condition involving a mother and her unborn babies.
Suzanne Bartalini Marcus and her family are among the many people who are celebrating the anniversary.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and videos at providencejournal.com
Silvermoon Mars LaRose, a leader in Rhode Island's Native American community and assistant director of the Tomaquag Museum, discusses her job, her writing, her love of children, her respect for Mother Earth, and more.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejournal.com
“I never ran a negative campaign, nor did he.”
So said President-elect Joe Biden about the late Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island in a telephone interview on Dec. 14, 2009, when he was nearing the end of his first year as vice president during the first term of President Barack Obama.
“This notion of a sense of honor,” Biden also said, was something he, Pell, and Republicans and Democrats alike shared decades ago during an era when Congressional members of the parties often worked together.
Listen to Biden on these and other issues during the many years he and Pell served together in the Senate -- issues including the environment, transportation, arms control, the arts and humanities, and education. Pell was the father of the Pell Grant program.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story at providencejournal.com
Dr. Megan Ranney, Brown University professor and an emergency physician at Lifespan’s Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals, discusses issues surrounding the coronavirus vaccines on the horizon, including the legitimate historical concerns some communities of color have regarding new medical procedures and drugs.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
For nearly three decades she has worked to preserve and renovate a building she used to visit as a child growing up in Westerly.
Children and adolescents living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, are among the people whose daily lives have become especially challenging during the coronavirus pandemic, with its shattering of normal routines -- and, for some, days at a stretch without leaving the home. Challenging, too, for the parents and guardians entrusted with their care. The Journal asked pediatric neuropsychologist and researcher Brian Kavanaugh, a prominent specialist in the field, to make a list of ten things to help children living with ADHD and their families. In this @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo, the clinician and researcher breaks it down - #story and #video at providencejournal.com
Mayor Charles A. Lombardi has waged a public – and at times personal – campaign this fall criticizing the employment contract for the town’s school superintendent.
With the Columbus Day weekend prompting reflection on the origins of our country, #NativeAmerican educator, historian and Tomaquag Museum director Lorén M. Spears urges individuals to learn the complete story of this place we call home.
It is, she asserts, a story that includes truths untold, truths distorted, and the marginalization and oppression of many people, including her own, that dates to the arrival of Europeans on the continent centuries ago.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
On a visit to Kingston, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, on Thursday gave the state of Rhode Island and the University of Rhode Island high marks for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Dr. Theresa Graves, director of the Breast Cancer Center of the Lifespan Cancer Institute in Rhode Island, discusses breast-cancer awareness and monitoring, care and treatment, and the advances research has brought as national Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins. She also talks about two of her patients, one from 20 years ago and another more recently: Lucia and Jennifer Cornwell, mother and daughter, now both healthy survivors.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and video at providencejournal.com
Dr. Ashish Jha, the new dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, arrived this month from Harvard with an international reputation – and plans already to help move Brown and the state of Rhode Island into the forefront of domestic and global efforts to improve the health of all people.
In this interview with The Journal, Jha said he also hopes he and Brown can contribute to moving the state toward a better healthcare system. As step in that direction came in June, when the leaders of Lifespan and Care New England, Rhode Island’s largest and second-largest systems, agreed to new talks that could lead to a merger that would include Brown.
Jha also spoke at length about the #coronavirus #pandemic – what the state might expect this fall and winter, the status of vaccines and more. As faculty director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute, Jha long before COVID-19 led ground-breaking research about preparations for pandemics, which have plagued humanity throughout recorded history.
@gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - #video and story at providencejournal.com
Candace Fleming, Chicago-based author of children's and young adult books, discusses heroes and the historical truths many may not know about Benjamin Franklin, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and other prominent Americans, this week on Story in the Public Square.
Brown University sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman, daughter of a Miss America, discusses beauty pageants, feminism and her new book, “Here She Is,” this week on Story in the Public Square.
Providence police release the 911 call received July 22 from a downtown resident complaining about loud music being played at the wine bar Fortnight.
Michael J. Marcello, a former councilman and state representative, who filed the Ethics Commission complaint against Brady on behalf of the Scituate Democratic Town Committee said, “The new Republican council that replaced The Independent Men seemed to be hellbent on erasing any vestiges of any of their appointees and obviously the police chief is one of the top on their list,” Marcello said.
Joselin Tavarez, who receives mental-health services by teletherapy from behavioral-health organization CODAC, discusses how important they have been for living with her anxiety and depression in the coronavirus pandemic. Linda Hurley, president and CEO of CODAC, which serves some 5,000 Rhode Islanders, gives the big-picture view. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and video at providencejournal.com
Humorist, journalist, actor and best-selling author Mo Rocca is best known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. He is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the host of CBS’s series The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation. Rocca created and hosted the Cooking Channel’s show, My Grandmother’s Ravioli, in which he learned to cook from grandparents across America. He is also a frequent panelist on NPR’s hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! This week on Story in the Public Square, Rocca discusses his book “Mobituaries.”
American Indian (Oglala Lakota) Dr. Donald Warne, Director of the Indians Into Medicine and Master of Public Health Program at the University of North Dakota, discusses generations of health disparities, genocide, the failure of the U.S. government to live up to treaties, the impact of COVID-19 on Native communities and more this week on Story in the Public Square.
Frederic Reamer, Rhode Island College professor and internationally renowned mental-health expert, discusses training of therapists and other professionals in the U.S. and abroad in telemedicine -- and the new challenges they and their clients face during the coronavirus pandemic. Among the many beneficiaries are therapists and service members on U.S. military on bases around the world -- and on an aircraft carrier. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejournal.com
Mark Lurie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health, discusses the prospects for a coronavirus vaccine, where Rhode Island and the nation stand in mid-July in the pandemic, and what may lie ahead as the summer progresses and fall arrives. Also in this @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo, Lurie offers guidance on staying safe. Story and #video at providencejournal.com
Dr. Leonard Mermel, Medical Director, Epidemiology & Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, and a professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, discusses coronavirus transmission, risk, the possibility of a second surge this autumn and more in this @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story and video at providencejournal.com
Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Lifespan’s Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals, has been on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic since the start. Ranney is also a professor at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and director of the Center for Digital Health. In this @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo, she discuss COVID-19 risks and future projections – and she is concerned. Story and video at providencejournal.com
Award-winning photojournalist Maddie McGarvey @maddiemcgarvey returns to Story in the Public Square and SiriusXMRadio this week to discuss her work on #BlackLivesMatter, the #coronavirus #pandemic, the #PresidentialElection, her amazing Western road trips & more.
This week on Story in the Public Square: The esteemed New York Times sports reporter Ken Belson talks race, Black Lives Matter, player injury, CTE, whether there will be a season and more in the NFL today.
During the depths of his mental-health struggles, in 2015, Mark Gonsalves sought to end his life by jumping off the Newport Bridge. He survived to restore his health -- and today is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist at Fellowship Health Resources, which operates community mental-health programs in Rhode Island and six other states. He discusses suicide prevention during the #coronavirus pandemic with The Providence Journal. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story and video at providencejournal.com
“Our country has lots of good points today after 400 years, but it was founded on oppression and when something is founded on conquest and oppression, it creates a hierarchy of domination that continues systems of oppression… The system is broken.” - Native American (Narragansett/Niantic) Lorén M. Spears, executive director of the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s Rhode Island's only Indigenous center dedicated to Native culture, arts and history, speaks with power and passion about America and communities of color following the death of George Floyd. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo
With newfound cooperation born out of a pandemic and a history of failed attempts behind them, the leaders of Lifespan and Care New England on Tuesday announced a new effort that could lead to a new healthcare system that includes the two entities and Brown University. Listen to Lifespan president and CEO Dr. Timothy J. Babineau and Care New England president and CEO Dr. James Fanale discuss the new talks. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
As houses of worship began to reopen around Rhode Island this weekend after weeks of #coronavirus closure, the Rev. Marcel Taillon, pastor of Saint Thomas More Parish in Narraganset, welcomed several dozen Catholics to the 9 a.m. Mass Sunday with a smile and seven words: "Really nice to see you this morning!” Listen to his homily on this Pentecost 2020 and some beautiful spiritual music. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com
Maria Carrillio, chief science officer for the Chicago-based Alzheimer’s Association, world’s largest such group, and Dr. Stephen Salloway of Brown University and Butler Hospital's Memory and Aging Program, discuss #Alzheimer's disease and dementia research, treatment and care during the #coronavirus pandemic. @gwaynemiller #podcast exclusively for @projo. Story and video at providencejournal.com
Dr. James McDonald is the medical director for the R.I. Department of Health. If you watch Gov. Gina Raimondo's press conferences, you see him every Sunday. Listen as he takes us behind the scenes of protecting public health during the coronavirus pandemic -- and philosophizes about the stories all of us are writing daily as we live the COVID-19 crisis. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com
More than a decade in the making, the Netflix original documentary “Have a Good Trip,” an exploration of LSD and other psychedelics starring Sting, Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman and many other A-list performers, premiers on Monday. Latest production from Mike Rosenstein, Rhode Island native and son of Benny's family. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo story at providencejournal.com
'Four or five weeks ago, if I had to be honest, I was scared about our ability to manage this crisis." Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Lifespan, Rhode Island's largest hospital and healthcare system, discusses the #coronavirus pandemic -- and reflects on his previous career as a surgeon, and his 'Normal Rockwell' father doctor. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. story at: https://bit.ly/3bWxHwb
Rhode Island’s transition to social distancing, which came earlier than most other states’ and has been strictly practiced by most residents, has significantly mitigated the impact of coronavirus disease here, Lifespan and Brown University Dr. Mitchell Levy one of the local and national leaders in the fight against the pandemic, told The Journal on Tuesday. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo Story at providencejournal.com
On April 12, Rode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo and Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the state Health Department, instruct people to stay home for Easter, as difficult as that will be, to help contain spread of #coronavirus disease. @gwaynemiller #podacst for @projo. Story and photos: https://bit.ly/2XvcUeW
“I don’t care how many years go by, you’re not going to make the streets wider, you’re not going to be able to redesign the property leading into that playground,” she said, adding that the neighbors’ opposition has been twisted by the mayor and other neighbors who support the pending proposal — making it seem like they hate children.
“It became: you’re terrible people,” Falaguerra said. “’You’re singing the ‘Oh Not in My Back Yard Song,’ which I can understand, but guess what: before you use that against us, come take a look, as many in the city have. All agreed that the location is terrible for a soccer field.”
“From the get-go the idea was to take an underutilized park, bring some life to it, bring some children to it, make it so it’s usable,” DaSilva said. “My goal is to see if we can make something beautiful out of something that has been ugly.”
“I knew when she (had a game) all of the parents would show up in separate cars because the kids would have to be there half an hour earlier.
“My parents at that time were healthy and driving, they’d come to watch my daughter’s game. Then you have the next team come in and you haven’t finished yet and left, and certainly there were always problems parking when we had the smaller fields,” Javery added.
Marc Pappas, director of the Rhode Island Emergency Agency, discusses plans and preparations regarding #coronavirus disease, COVID-19 -- and the role state residents should play in helping to curb the outbreak. This is no hurricane or blizzard, Pappas tells The Providence Journal. @gwaynemiller #podcast, story at providencejournal.com - all coronavirus coverage at http://bit.ly/2TO4KvX
Join Providence Journal sports writers Eric Rueb (@EricRueb) and Bill Koch (@BillKoch25) for a podcast preview of the upcoming Interscholastic League state basketball tournaments, which are scheduled to start Thursday.
Boys and girls are set to open play and the games were still on as of Wednesday afternoon's recording. We look at the potential impact of the coronavirus on scheduling and venues (1:00), the boys bracket (8:00), the girls bracket (31:00) and much more.
There are favorites, sleepers and breakdowns of all Round of 16 games here. Follow along on Twitter and at providencejournal.com through next weekend's title games.
Weeks before Rhode Island’s first case of #coronavirus, COVID-19, was confirmed, the staff at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and throughout the Lifespan system began planning for a potential spread, says nurse Lindsay McKeever, Hasbro’s Director of Pediatric Emergency Services. Those plans, being updated daily, include preparations to keep frontline workers at emergency departments and hospitals safe when possibly infected people arrive -- while providing patients necessary care. A @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com
Margaret R. Paccione, PhD, Director of Clinical Innovation at Bradley Hospital, discusses how the coronavirus disease can prompt anxiety and fear in children and adolescents -- and what they and their parents and other adults in their lives can do about it. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com
Rhode Island Department of Health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott provides an update on COVID-19, the #coronavirus disease, Monday morning, March 2, 2020. @gwayne miller #podcast for @projo. Stories at providencejournal.com
Brown University School of Public Health epidemiologist Mark Lurie discusses the origins and spread of COVID-19, and the prospects for a vaccine – and what the future may hold as the number of confirmed cases surpasses 85,000, with nearly 3,000 deaths, in more than 60 countries and counting. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo, coronavirus stories at providencejournal.com
Penelope (Penny) Muse Abernathy, a former executive at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, author of “The Expanding News Desert,” and now the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina discusses changes in journalism – and the effect on American democracy -- in this week's national broadcasts of "Story in the Public Square." To watch the episode, find your local station and times at http://bit.ly/2SSdxhv
Osheen Emdjian talks to Providence Journal columnist, Mark Patinkin, about his four huskies and the memory of his daughter, Ani.
“We can do an area, then we move on to another area and the area we did maybe a month or two ago has slipped back,” said DPW Director Leo Perrotta, noting that having residents speak dozens of different languages across the city has made getting the message across more challenging.Providence paid $459,000 in 2018 for rejected loads; in 2019 it increased to $476,000. This year, the city is on target to pay nearly $575,000 for what just a few years ago was accepted at no charge.
“Some municipalities will try and debate that. If we had a person up there watching our loads come in we could make the argument maybe only 50% percent of that load should be rejected. Even if we were doing that we would still be paying the $250 equipment charge to move the rejected material from the recycling pile to the trash pile,” Earls added.
North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi has been a member of the Resource Recovery Board of Commissioners for more than a decade. North Providence paid only $628 in 2018 for contaminated loads. But that number tripled in 2019 and this year the town is on pace to pay $7,540.“We’ve had a couple of contaminated loads,” Lombardi said. “Do I like it? Absolutely not. Do I know why and do I understand why it’s happening? Absolutely.”
Rhode Island Health Department director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott discusses a 38-page report from the Rhode Island Commission for Health Advocacy and Equity outlining areas where the state and local communities must do better in resolving health disparities. She spoke during a wider discussion at the R.I. Convention Center about the long-term strategic plan “Health in Rhode Island: A Long Term Vision,” which capped a long effort led by the Rhode Island Foundation. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at www.providencejurnal.com
Lifespan and Coastal Medical, an organization with more than 125 primary care physicians around Rhode Island, have signed a letter of intent to pursue an affiliation that would bring Coastal into the Lifespan health-care system. Lifespan president and CEO Dr. Timothy J. Babineau and Coastal president and CEO Dr. G. Alan Kurose discuss the relationship and what it will mean for patients. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story: https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200206/lifespan-and-coastal-medical-seek-to-affiliate
Providence Journal columnist Mark Patinkin interviews Twyler Boyce, 94, of East Providence and discovers how she reacted to seeing her husband, John, return seriously wounded from World War II.
Linda Tropp, professor of social psychology at the University of Massachusetts and a leading force for social justice, discusses effective inter-group dialogue and resolving conflict on this week’s coast-to-coast broadcasts of “Story in the Public Square.” To watch the episode, find your local station and times at http://bit.ly/2SSdxhv
Eleven superintendents have come and gone in the last 20 years. Now there’s another new school chief in town — Harrison Peters, the man charged with transforming the city’s struggling school system.
In a district that has been roiled by turnover at the top, Peters’ contract stipulates a three-year commitment at $225,000 a year. In recent years no superintendent has lasted much longer than that in Providence. Peters himself has bounced from one school district to another: Hillsborough County, Florida; Houston; Chicago; Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and Orange County, California.
Providence Journal Sports Columnist Kevin McNamara talks to Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski about former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who died tragically in a helicopter crash on Sunday, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
U.S. Naval War College University Professor Tom Nichols, author of the best-selling “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters” is this week’s guest on “Story in the Public Square.” With more than 310,000 Twitter followers of his @RadioFreeTom, Nichols is also a strong presence on social media.
The Rhode Island Foundation on January 19, 2020, unveiled an unprecedented statewide plan that seeks improvements in the quality of healthcare and in the educational, economic, social, environmental and other factors that also impact individual and group health in Rhode Island. Foundation president and CEO Neil D. Steinberg discusses the plan with fellow committee members Kim Keck, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Samuel Salganik, head of the Rhode Island Parent Information Network; Betty Rambur, a professor with the University of Rhode Island’s College of Nursing; and Dr. G. Alan Kurose, president and CEO of Coastal Medical. @gwaynemiller podcast for @projo Story and more at providencejournal.com
Best-selling author, popular podcaster and former New York Times columnist KJ Dell'Antonia is this week's guest on "Story in the Public Square." She discusses her new book, "How to be a Happier Parent," and many other contemporary parenting issues including teens and preteens and their use of social media.
Jamie Metzl, a technology and healthcare futurist, geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur and media commentator, is this week’s guest on “Story in the Public Square.” He discusses his latest book, “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.”
As she prepared to leave her post as director of the state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, Rebecca Boss spoke recently with The Journal about what she considers to be her accomplishments – and the challenges facing her successor, Kathryn Power, who assumed the helm on Monday. A state legislator and officials with private-sector agencies that work with and received funding from BHDDH, meanwhile, praised Boss. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo
This week on "Story in the Public Square": Keesha Middlemass, associate professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Howard University and the award-winning author of “Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry.”
Adela Raz, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations, is this week’s guest on “Story in the Public Square.” She discusses America’s longest war – and also her country today, when Afghanistan is home to a vibrant democracy, a free press, an equality-minded young generation, and much more.
Daughter of a Cambodian woman who miraculously survived Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot’s murderous regime, Rosa Nuon was born in a Thai refugee camp. She came to America with her family at the age of four in the mid 1980s and eventually settled in Rhode Island. Learning about the Cambodian genocide moved her from a young age. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island, was hired by the Center for Southeast Asians, and today is a case manager for Family Service Association of Fall River. She is pursuing a master’s degree and planning to start a support group for people living with trauma. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo
Story in the Public Square: Each year since 2013, the Pell Center has announced the public narrative that has had the biggest impact on public affairs in the previous twelve months, the “Story of the Year.” This year, co-hosts Jim Ludes and G. Wayne Miller agreed the story of the year is not a single story, but a greater phenomenon: The fracturing of America’s public narrative. But there was plenty of competition, and Brown University professor of sociology and international and public affairs Michael Kennedy joins us as we break a momentous year in the U.S. and abroad down.
Susan Rice, President Obama’s National Security Advisor and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is this week’s guest on “Story in the Public Square.” She discusses contemporary foreign and domestic issues and her New York Times bestselling book, “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.”