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bob kerr 05/18/2008

Bob Kerr: The teachers take their best to the teachers
The classroom had one book and one plastic chair. The students were all orphans. A third of them were HIV-positive. They lived in that room and some of them died there.

05/16/2008

A silly sense of sacrifice at the club

05/14/2008

The voice and the book come together
Dr. Seuss seems an unlikely sort to jump the walls of the Adult Correctional Institutions. All that delightful innocence seems so out of sync with the hard stone and steel of maximum security.

05/11/2008

Kerr: At Frankie’s, it’s the real deal
You could put a place setting on the flattop Frank Breggia was creating. How flat was it? It was pool table flat. It was so flat you could probably skip stones off it.

Kerr: At Frankie’s, it’s the real deal
You could put a place setting on the flattop Frank Breggia was creating. How flat was it? It was pool table flat. It was so flat you could probably skip stones off it.

05/09/2008

When welfare pays more than usual
As of right now, the governor of Rhode Island has a special adviser on hospital acquisitions and mergers. She might as well be a special adviser on lunar landings. The governor has no statutory authority over hospital acquisitions and mergers.

05/07/2008

Learning how not to become a victim
She is 12 years old and she was counting down the minutes Friday in her seventh-grade class until the time she could take her best shot at a cop.

05/04/2008

Kerr: It’s springtime and we’re riding on the Coach
The Clemency Coach doesn’t take reservations. It doesn’t work that way. But if it did, the spring run would probably be booked months in advance. There’s something about pulling down those cracked, yellowed windows and letting the springtime scents of forsythia and lilac and diesel fuel waft in that makes this run so special. And coming off a hard, dreary winter filled with discontent, a ride down the road on this bus to nowhere seems the ideal way to ease into the new season.

Kerr: It’s springtime and we’re riding on the Coach
The Clemency Coach doesn’t take reservations. It doesn’t work that way. But if it did, the spring run would probably be booked months in advance. There’s something about pulling down those cracked, yellowed windows and letting the springtime scents of forsythia and lilac and diesel fuel waft in that makes this run so special. And coming off a hard, dreary winter filled with discontent, a ride down the road on this bus to nowhere seems the ideal way to ease into the new season.

05/02/2008

How about just dropping the whole thing?
Sometimes, they take the sport right out of it.

04/30/2008

The mother, the daughter and the reward
A member of the governor’s staff was sent to pick up Charlotte Watkins on April 9 at her house on Smith Hill. She had just gotten back from her regular Wednesday Scrabble session at the library.

04/27/2008

Kerr: Two friends and the lessons at school
The two Alexes, Azar and Duarte, are smart 10-year-olds who have been friends since they met in karate class. They used to sit next to each other at Lincoln’s Central Elementary School, but they don’t anymore. Alex Azar isn’t in school.

04/25/2008

Bob Kerr: In the cold, people find real warmth
We should all do as Jaime Cassidy has done. Not everything, of course, but a little bit. Most of us are not going to spend 2½ years in El Salvador with the Peace Corps or go to Sierra Leone to work in a nutrition program with UNICEF.

04/23/2008

Being this close to the action is no thrill
Angelo Baldinelli and Chester DeWitt get to see the anger, the impatience, the drunken weave, the dangerous cell phone distraction and the post-casino blues up close and personal.

04/20/2008

Kerr: This is no way to help out on the home front
Jennie Angell got one of those calls that start out as a blessing, then turn into a nightmare.

Kerr: This is no way to help out on the home front
Jennie Angell got one of those calls that start out as a blessing, then turn into a nightmare.

04/18/2008

His annual attempt to come clean
It’s that time again for my annual filing under the Truth In Column Writing Act. Every year, those of us who are allowed to fill this loosely defined corner of the newspaper are required to file a list of loosely held beliefs, suspicions, leftover grudges and surviving passions. It’s a guide of sorts for those still reading to decide if they should even go to the first sentence beneath my aging mug.