A lovely bit of urban culture in the Providence Westin, courtesy of the skybridge between the hotel and Providence Place Mall.

Taken from South Water Street.

MERI will be holding a press conference on February 13 and “introducing our 2008 legislation and issuing a community call to action.” I wonder if Governor Carcieri will be attending.

Dylan, 15, says he has always been attracted to what he calls “Army life”—the precision, the discipline, the orderliness. And he shows that in his appearance—from his shaved head to his manner of answering questions and commands with crisp “yes, sirs” or “no, ma’ams.”

Dylan fits right in in the Police Explorers program, which gives young people “a taste of what it is like to be a police officer through drills, discipline and standard procedures.”

No word on whether the new owners have filed for demolition permits yet.

Several Rhode Island universities are taking part in the national campaign “Focus the Nation” this week to show students that theirs is the generation that will be primarily responsible for slowing climate change and also the one that will shoulder the consequences of failure.

The University of Rhode Island, Brown University, Johnson & Wales University, Salve Regina University and Providence College have all pledged to hold activities such as hosting the national screening of “The Two Percent Solution,” a live interactive informational video, on Wednesday night, and to ask professors to integrate climate change issues in their classes.

Today’s college students, of course, will not be in any position to slow climate change until it’s far too late. In reality, it’s their loving parents’—and professors’—generation that is truly responsible. As far as the brats in college today: It’s not their responsibility. It’s just their problem, since it’s getting dumped on them.

Students at URI, Brown, JWU, Salve, and PC: Your professors are full of shit. Call them on it.