Brendan Herr

A strip club, a golf course, and the most Providence lawsuit ever - The Boston Globe Desire Gentlemen’s Club is suing Triggs Memorial Golf Course, the public course owned by the city of Providence.

Ok, so what you’re saying is Triggs should be closed, made mostly into an actual public park, with like 10% of the area made available for housing development.
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Q: did the Monterrey-SFO bus not qualify for this trip?

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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I like to see a straw house being built. Vernon street, Providence

This article sure reads like it

This article claims that average PVD rents declined 19% YOY and, uhhhh

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For washers/dryers, it’s a good thing the all-in-one units are good now, so we can put those in accessible units instead of designing a laundry closet that is the size of a half bath.

At least we’re not Mass. Sometimes aff rental developments there will have four overlapping accessibility design guidelines: EOHLC, Fair Housing, UFAS, and MA’s bespoke accessibility code: 521 CMR.

Here in RI, aff rental units that are developed with LIHTC funding thru RI Housing need to have a minimum of six closets (coat, pantry, broom, linen, mech/util, and then one per bedroom). It’s a good thing they are generous with design waivers.

Two terrible losses on Block Island this year. Three Sisters sandwich shop and Chapel Sweets. You will be missed.

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Elementary school: Richard Simmons videos in gym class
Middle school: OJ verdict
High school: the second tower collapsing

The further west you go across the country, the more important/powerful counties get. The county in IL I grew in has nearly a million residents and a $1B annual budget. All kinds of services are run through the county.

Big LOL at CVS having like 5 people there

Also the Renaissance Hotel, no Pride lighting. L. Pains me to say it, but props to Paolino’s 100 Westminster building for putting up the colors.

Big Dan McKee ‘L’ for not having the statehouse in Pride lighting for PVD Pride weekend.

Triad bridge!

Omfg, CSX puts its DEI locomotive on the head (but behind the armed forces tribute loco) of a trainload of tanks for Trump’s parade

I’ve heard it called ‘breeder commercial’

That’s very nice. Depth is about 34’? You should try and grab that under-stair space for something usable.

I have two of these (and love them!) and noticed immediately that they have an issue with holding water. A 1/16” hole drilled in the low point lets it drain freely

They do that a lot

A four-way hike rotary?! Needs some slip lanes.

Ideally MARC/VRE trains would operate as a single, run-through operation, so the VRE layover and maintenance shop could relocate

A 4” cast iron soil stack serving three bathrooms and a kitchen, in very poor condition

Solid lead waste lines and a drum trap.

Old houses are bad, actually.

A long time ago, I was driving on a six-lane roadway and a massive funeral procession overtook me. I stopped at a red light, but they kept going, so I joined them because I was really afraid to be sitting there among moving traffic. I drove through like a dozen red lights. It was chaos.

Brown U’s new life sciences building

Going up!

A playbill for Cypress Hill performing with an orchestra

Where my classic Simpsons fans at?

Saw someone’s post that it looks like it got fucked by a Dodge, and yeah that’s it.

Apparently this is visible along the entire NEC right now