Bob Kerr

11/25/2009

Bob Kerr: Some people who get out and do things
It is the day for the list of people doing good things. Obviously, the list is not complete. There are people doing good things because that’s the way they are and we never hear about them. We just got lucky with this group. We got to learn of the small ways they make this a better place. Let’s just say each of them represents thousands of others.

11/22/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: Craziness and cowardice continues on Camp Street
Elizabeth Hector was reading her newspaper at the dining room table Monday morning when she heard a noise not far from her house on Camp Street in Providence. She didn’t think it was gunfire, not at first. Then she heard a yell from the street — “Someone got shot!”

11/20/2009

Bob Kerr: It’s the wonder that keeps us asking for more
The magician put his cards on the table. He told me to put my hand on top of the deck and feel the vibe from a particular card. I didn’t feel any vibe, but I picked the 10 of hearts. The magician picked up the deck and found the 10 of hearts — the only card in the deck that was face up with a backing different than the other cards.

11/18/2009

Bob Kerr: More knuckles are needed when saying hello
I say the fist bump.

11/15/2009

Bob Kerr: Grownups behaving badly becomes Progressive-ly worse
Sydnee goes about 4-foot-11 and weighs in at 86 pounds. Her game is basketball. She likes to play her games on a court, not a video screen. Her favorite subjects are math and science.

11/13/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: Carcieri’s heartless, but not surprising piece, of work
I tried to help Mark Goldberg get his partner Ron Hanby’s obituary in The Journal in October of last year. I thought it would be a simple piece of work. He would bring in the information and I would take him to the appropriate person to put the obituary in the paper.

11/12/2009

R.I.’s Sen. Jack Reed’s office says he got information on alleged POW
Senator’s office says he got answers from Pentagon concerning status of brother of man featured in a recent column

11/11/2009

Bob Kerr: The pursuit of those who might be alive
The meeting Bob Dumas and Vincent Russo had with Sen. Jack Reed was like a lot of meetings they have had with high-ranking officials. Reed was encouraging and reassuring. He said his people would contact Sen. John Kerry’s people. They would look into this issue that Russo and Dumas have spent a good part of their adult lives pursuing.

11/08/2009

Bob Kerr: Son’s devotion brings to light a WWII love story

11/06/2009

Bob Kerr: For this chef, the cooking is humbling
The woman wanted fish for breakfast. She got fish for breakfast.

11/04/2009

Bob Kerr: A chance to hear about Afghanistan from a man who’s been there
Jonathan Landay was part of one of the greatest “if only” newspaper stories of the last 10 years — as in “if only more people had read it.”

11/01/2009

Make room on the Clemency Coach for the fall ride
Veteran riders of the Clemency Coach, people who have doubled and tripled up on their public embarrassments, say the autumn ride is the best. There are the stunning colors, the crisp snap in the air, a sense of being in the very best place there is at this time of year.

10/30/2009

Bob Kerr: Taking people to places seldom seen
There was a lot of discussion in the Journal newsroom before and after the story on the women in a murder victim’s life appeared on page A7 of Thursday’s paper.

10/28/2009

Columnist Bob Kerr: This really won’t bring an end to it
The Dallas Cowboys were the first professional football team to dress its cheerleaders as hookers.