Real-time cash-flow numbers for Monday, March 30th:

General Fund Receipts: $9,051,868
General Fund Expenditures: $56,294,425

If you would like a daily Twitter “tweet” of the State’s cash-flow, please log onto www.treausry.ri.gov and click on the Twitter icon on the home page.

Princeton University Logos or are they Providence, RI logos?
By Philip Marcelo
Journal Staff Writer

Josh Silverman of Schwa Design holds up the letter P designed by his firm to be used that is being used to promote Providence as a creative environment for entrepreneurs.
The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer

PROVIDENCE — Goodbye, Renaissance City. So long, Beehive [...]

Time Magazine
By Sean Gregory Friday, Mar. 27, 2009

For shoppers in today’s economy, there’s just too much temptation out there. Sure, your pockets are tight. But there are clearance sales in every store, and deep discounts down every aisle. So how do you stop yourself from spending? Especially when you know that, during this awful [...]

#1 seed: Bernie Madoff
#2 seed: A.I.G
#3 seed: All the bailout banks
#4 seed: Car industry CEO’s
#5 seed: Bernie Madoff’s wife
#6 seed: Rich, and getting richer, oil companies
#7 seed: Dick Cheney, wherever he is…
#8 seed: Wall Street bonus babies
#9 seed: My dwindling stock portfolio
#10 seed: Alan Greenspan (thanks for seeing all this before it happened)
#11 seed: Politicians [...]

DALLAS, Pa. - Out of toilet paper? Need to pick up a few things for dinner? Take a number and start bidding.
Many bargain hunters these days are trading supermarket aisles for the auction circuit in search of deep discounts on everything from cereal to spare ribs. Past the sell-by date? Bidders are happy to ignore [...]

Tim Leary & The Morning Showgram Fights to Lower
Unemployment Rate Across Southern New England

PROVIDENCE- Tim Leary & The Morning Showgram (Mornings on Cat Country 98.1 WCTK-FM in Providence) are launching a project that will help its listeners who are in search of a job.

The Massachusetts unemployment rate is 7.4% and the Rhode [...]

Athletics

Nap Lajoie, member of Baseball Hall of Fame

Bill Almon (1952- ), baseball player
Billy Andrade (1964- ), golfer
Demetrius Andrade (1988), boxer
Rocco Baldelli (1981- ), baseball player
Marvin Barnes (1952- ), basketball player
Elizabeth Beisel (1993- ), Olympic swimmer
Harvey Bennett (1952- ), ice hockey player
Bryan Berard (1977- ), ice hockey player
Bill Belisle hockey coach
Will Blackmon (1984- ), American football [...]

In the 1980’s it was: “I want my MTV”
In the 1990’s it was: “I want my MTV….to actually play music videos again”
In 2009 it is: “I want my MTV and MY bailout”
Seriously, don’t you just want to turn the television off, put the newspaper down, click off the Internet and just lose yourself in a [...]

If I had my own show on CNBC I would:
-Not scream
-Let others finish their thoughts before I spoke
-Have respect for the Office of the President
-Stop telling people what to do all the time
-Not fight with Jon Stewart
-Not become the news, just report it
-Think before I spoke
-Try and sit beside Rebecca Jarvis and Margaret Brennan as [...]

We thought we’d take a very short one-day break from all the horrendous news regarding: AIG..Wall Street..Bernie Madoff..budget deficits and rising unemployment rates to hopefully make you smile for a few seconds.
Did you know there’s a guide to speaking the RI vernacular?
Quahog.org is online with the Guide to Rhode Island Language Stuff.
From Quahog.org:
Whatchoo lookin’ at?
It [...]