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Bob Kerr

bob kerr 06/28/2009

Bob Kerr: The third floor is where the treasure is
Sometimes, it takes an out-of-towner to find the treasures the locals pass by. It takes fresh eyes to see past the familiar, everyday blur.

06/26/2009

Bob Kerr: What’s needed is more of the real stuff
One huge problem with Twin River is that it keeps the seedy desperation out of sight. The slot parlor is all by itself out there off Route 146 in Lincoln, so the hard, sweaty downside has no real place to settle in and give us the full human sweep of gambling misery.

06/24/2009

Bob Kerr: A tragedy for humans and animals
The nurse appears crisply turned out and totally professional while at work in the hospital. When she goes home, she walks into gagging squalor.

06/21/2009

Bob Kerr: There’s no reason to have to live this way
This is the letter Anne Hebert received from the Smithfield Housing Authority. I didn’t make this up.

06/19/2009

Bob Kerr: A law everyone in the state can feel good about
Now that it has overcome Governor Carcieri’s ongoing attempt to impose a statewide ban on compassion, the Rhode Island General Assembly has some questions to answer about these pot shops.

06/17/2009

Bob Kerr: Andrew Martin is coming to the plate
In the cause of greater awareness, go to home plate at McCoy Stadium. If there is a place for the state to lay down its collective heart, it is here where the fastballs and curves come in. More than any other place, McCoy is where Rhode Island finds its sense of community.

06/14/2009

Bob Kerr: A whale watch was the start of a life’s work
Stephanie Martin went for a walk with Jimmy Carter on the Arctic tundra. Carter, she says, is the smartest man she’s ever met.

06/12/2009

Bob Kerr: The need is clear for intervention out on the Trail
I’m certainly willing to help in any way I can. A lot of us just want to reach out and say “we’re here for you.”

06/10/2009

Bob Kerr: Firefighters win nothing but embarrassment
There is a line between pushing a cause and indulging a grudge, and Providence firefighters have jumped over it with the kind of gleeful indifference often seen in hopscotch.

Bob Kerr: Firefighters win nothing but embarrassment
There is a line between pushing a cause and indulging a grudge, and Providence firefighters have jumped over it with the kind of gleeful indifference often seen in hopscotch.

06/07/2009

Bob Kerr: A friendship is celebrated at the party
One held on to bachelorhood until he was 38, the other until he was 40. They were roommates for six years. They worked hard, partied hard and kept the details to themselves. And when they met the right women and fell in love and decided to get married, they talked it over. They talked over everything. That’s the way the friendship worked.

Bob Kerr: A friendship is celebrated at the party
One held on to bachelorhood until he was 38, the other until he was 40. They were roommates for six years. They worked hard, partied hard and kept the details to themselves. And when they met the right women and fell in love and decided to get married, they talked it over. They talked over everything. That’s the way the friendship worked.

06/05/2009

Bob Kerr: It is time to praise the lawyers
It is one of the good, quiet stories. It is about repairing damage and reclaiming principles that got all beat up in a thuggish splurge of national payback.