To the Editor: Lately I have been feeling kind of down. I thought it might have been the weather. Some days hot and dry some days wet and cold. Then the other day when driving down Airport Road and Post Road, I suddenly realized the reason for my more

To the Editor: Being an American is mostly an accident of birth, aside from new immigration. There is no requirement to think a particular way. No opinion makes someone more "American" than any other opinion. No flag waving, no prejudice, no belief, no more

To the Editor: I'm a retired teacher from the RI School for the Deaf, and I've been an advocate for public school students since retiring in 2011. In the past few years, I've become aware of a threat not only to schoolchildren, but to all of us, as well more

Dear Cranston School Committee members: As you are the governing body of the Cranston School Department, I have a few questions and concerns that I would like to bring to your attention for clarification and responses. The question I have is, with full more

To the Editor: In the history of American letters, few missives are as famous as the letter that Major Sullivan Ballou putatively wrote to his wife, Sarah, before his regiment left camp to fight at the Battle of Bull Run. I say "putatively" because there more

To the Editor: Members of The Village at Waterman Lake's Chalet Garden Club experienced a moment of unexpected generosity and humanity this week! As we attempted to cash out at Al's Greenhouse on Plainfield Pike in Cranston, the gentleman who cashed out more

To the Editor: Hopefully President Biden will make nuclear deals with Iran and North Korea. However, it is equally to be hoped that he does not repeat the fatal flaw of the first Iran deal: It imposed a waiting period for the inspection of suspected more

Not even an ongoing, unprecedented global health crisis was going to keep down the Gaspee Days Committee for a second consecutive year. When it became clear last summer that the committee was not going to be able to hold the annual parade and surrounding more

To the Editor: As a resident of District 15 in Cranston I was happy to support Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung against Nick Mattiello, but I had no idea she would turn out to be Rhode Island's version of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Fenton-Fung has supported key more

To the Editor: Joseph H. Crowley, who has a history of making excuses for underperforming public schools, has predictably joined what economist Thomas Sowell calls the war on charter schools ("McKee is right, but has it backward," April 8). Crowley takes more

To the Editor: Mass murders have again shaken our sense of safety to shop for groceries and go about our daily activities with our children and grandchildren. Our nation's founding principle that we are all created equal and endowed with the unalienable more

To the Editor: If Mr. Murray and his clients are so concerned about alleged interconnection misinformation ["Solar project has undergone extensive review," March 25], then they should welcome a … more