Journalism lecturer, University of Rhode Island; author of novels The Winters & Roberta's Woods
Shannock, RI
Joined November 2010
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Thrilled to report that my short story, “The Squatter,” is a finalist for Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s prose prize! @SlipperyElmLJ
Everyone is assuming Trump was the target but maybe it was the press. #Whitehousecorresopondentsdinner
#Amtrak is a fine thread from Boston to N.Y. that is only as strong as its weakest link. I have often thought this driving beneath the Shannock overpass.
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Here is what is actually happening: one Amtrak employee is handing out a piece of paper with refund info and saying “Sorry, I can’t do anything else to help.” Station is packed with people and nobody can get a ride accepted by Uber or Lyft to a local hotel much less Boston / 128.
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#BREAKING: An on-ramp to I-95 is closed and all Amtrak trains between Kingston and Boston have been halted after a piece of ramp became detached, fell on tracks. More details as this story develops: wpri.com/news/local-news/wes…
(📸: Cranston Police)
The most British story ever on the BBC this afternoon: badminton shuttlecocks have gone synthetic because of a shortage of bird feathers.
Comments about Guthrie case summed up: 1. Fox News audience flipping out that the story detracts from the usual drivel over there 2. Conspiracy theories tying her disappearance to Clintons, Epstein etc. 3. Self-appointed forensic experts convinced they know what happened
The murder of #ReneeNicoleGood has brought out not only average citizens to protest but the poets and artists and musicians and editorial cartoonists. Art will always triumph over evil.
Noem’s version of the shooting in #Minneapolis contradicts the video evidence. You can spin this all day long but the camera doesn’t lie.
The Swiss New Year’s Eve tragedy has eerie echoes of The Station fire, with the suggestion that sparklers in Champagne bottles may have ignited the ceiling. #Switzerland #RhodeIsland
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On the latest "What Works" podcast, Jennifer Peter, the new editor of The Marshall Project, tells Ellen Clegg and me about how the nonprofit covers criminal justice — including how it is extending its work to local news. Plus our Quick Takes. whatworks.news/2025/12/23/je…
ALT Jennifer Peter
Hopefully they catch this guy before he strikes again.
Law enforcement sources sound increasingly confident in this connection between the Brown shooting and the MIT slaying - a change from 48 hours ago, when FBI Boston said they had no evidence of a connection
Full story from @TimWhiteRI @Eli_Sherman and me wpri.com/target-12/police-pr…
