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Tim Jones – Sour Grapes: Up to
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Letter To The Editor: Give a hoot! Let’s keep Middletown clean
Happy Earth Month! As Earth Day approaches, it’s the perfect time to remember how fortunate we are to call Middletown home. Our town is a beautiful place to live, work, and play—thanks in large part...
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Michele Gallagher: Rhode Island women are investing their power and...
This statistic more than doubles the national trend of women owning businesses at approximately one-third the rate of men, or 22%. Rhode Island has approximately 105,000 small businesses (those with...
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Helen Hames: From your house to the State House – How SACRI connects your...
At a time when many feel their voices aren’t heard, the Senior Agenda Coalition of Rhode Island (SACRI) provides a “collective of wisdom, experience, and outrageous transparency,” said Carol Anne...
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Tim Jones – Sour Crapes: Dollar
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Letter to the Editor: Middletown smoke and mirrors
There have been Planning Board public hearings, Town Council public hearings, and Citizens Advisory Committee meetings for public input on what Middletown residents want in a town center. A...
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Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about 25,000 people losing their doctors
You may have heard that 25,000 people in Rhode Island are losing their primary care doctors because a large practice called Anchor Medical is closing its doors. Not my problem, you might think. Anchor...
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Charles L. Roberts: More voices from Rhode Island’s nonprofit community
Earlier this month in WUN “Voices”, I shared my thoughts about David W. Blight’s recent op-ed in the New York Times on the heels of the current president’s devastating executive order entitled...
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What’s my house really worth? Why Zillow isn’t your most accurate resource
It’s a question I hear all the time: “What’s my house worth?” And more often than not, it’s followed by, “Zillow says…” While it’s tempting to rely on online estimates for a quick snapshot of your...
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Letter to the Editor: Middletown Planning Board to vote on the...
"Be There: Middletown Planning Board to Vote on the No-Longer-Your-Town-Center Project" On Thursday, April 24th, the Middletown Planning Board is scheduled to vote on whether to forward a positive or...
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Tim Jones – Sour Grapes: Air
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Gerry Goldstein: In any lingo, some amusing sports jargon
This may sound a bissel meshuga (a little crazy), but the name of a common play in pro football these days comes straight from Yiddish. And the term has given new meaning to the most important part of...
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Helen Hames: Time to treat mental health like heart health – a wake-up call...
Mental health has come a long way—but for older adults, it's still too often a hidden struggle, fueling isolation at a time when connection matters most. According to AARP, between 2019 and 2023,...
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Michele Gallagher: The health, wellness and wellbeing industry is alive and...
The U.S. health and wellness spa industry has nearly 20,000 businesses, contributing over $20 billion to the economy in 2024. With growing attention on mindfulness, fitness, and personal well-being,...
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‘Chicago’ heats up PPAC with Ellie Roddy as Roxie Hart
Ellie Roddy is only 25 years old, and she’s already checking off parts on her Dream Roles list. “The fact that I’ve gotten to play Roxie Hart is a big check mark.” Roddy is traveling with the national...
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Dr. Michael Fine – What’s Crazy about Health Care and Intelligence:...
I want a T-shirt that says Artificial Intelligence Isn’t. I spent a very long twenty minutes on a Zoom this week with a surgeon-turned-tech-entrepreneur from Stanford, who was trying to persuade me...
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Frank Prosnitz – Just my Opinion: Lessons from an Egyptian cabbie
I nestled into the passenger seat in the yellow cab in NYC on my way with my cousins to Carnegie Hall for a concert. I always like the front seat because I can engage the driver in conversation....
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Charles L. Roberts: I dream of my mother on Mother’s Day
As I considered my “Voices” topic for May’s WUN, my thoughts turned immediately to my mother, Bessie L. Walker Roberts. “Miss Bessie,” as friends called her, was born in Newport on September 30, 1925,...
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Comic – Sour Grapes: Personal
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Letter to the Editor: Let’s focus on the ‘big picture’
Middletown’s recent catalog of ongoing projects is impressive, reflecting a focus on improving a multitude of functions and expanding available resources. However, none of these projects could have...
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Letter to the Editor: Strengthen our local preparedness with a two-way radio
Last week, Spain and Portugal lost electrical power for a day. Communications came to a halt; there was plenty of confusion. This week, the National Weather Service is featuring “Hurricane...
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Letter to the Editor: Prioritize Newport’s future, maintain robust FY2026...
To the Editor, As a resident of Newport, I urge our community and city leaders to prioritize maintaining robust funding in the FY2026 capital budget. These funds are critical to sustaining the...
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Helen Hames: More than music, a CHIME to open hearts
One recent afternoon, a little-known musical debut occurred at The Edward King House Senior Center in Newport. It featured a new maestro of sorts and a most unusual orchestra–made up of a human...
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Gerry Goldstein: Holiday time, for short stanzas that rhyme
A limerick is funny, but terse, A short and succinct piece of verse. In only five lines The humor it mines Runs from ribald to bawdy to worse. So there you have my home-made contribution to one of the...
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Letter to the Editor: Middletown taxpayers deserve respect, not reprimands
The following Letter to the Editor was submitted by Jo-Ann Thornton in response to this Letter to the Editor that was recently submitted by Barbara A. VonVillas, Middletown Town Councilor. This is the...
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