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Focus Rhode Island airs on WRNI 3-4p.m. every Friday, Saturday
6-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 - 9 p.m. Audio of the entire show is archived on
the web two hours after the end of Friday's broadcast. The archived programs
are streamed in the Real Audio Format.
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Real Player.
THE BLUE CROSS PROBLEM
Hearings have been held almost daily at the State House this week to take
up some of the hundreds of bills to address what some officials are calling
the Blue Cross problem. We talk with State Senator Elizabeth Roberts,
co-chair of the joint committee on healthcare oversite.
REPORTS ON THE HEALTH OF NARRAGANSETT
BAY
A massive fishkill in Narragansett Bay grabbed the attention of Rhode
Island lawmakers last summer, prompting the formation of multiple committees
to study the conditions of the estuary. The final report, from the governor's
Narragansett Bay and Watershed Commission, was submitted to Governor Carcieri
this week. WRNI reporter Caroline Rodriguez reports.
RHODE ISLAND'S UNDERWATER TREASURES
Rhode Island has more shipwrecks per square mile than any other state
in the country, and the goal of Marine Archaeology Project director Kathy
Abass is to properly study these wrecks. We speak with Abass about how
the general public can get involved in the underwater archaeology project
and about the search for Endeavor, a former prison ship that was sunk
off the coast of Rhode Island in 1778.
POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE
Host Deborah Becker speaks with Providence Journal political writer Scott
McKay and University of Rhode Island's political science department chair
Maureen Moakley.
RHODE ISLAND COMEDY FESTIVAL
Local talent, local jokes and a search for Rhode Island's April fool are
all part of The 1st Annual Rhode Island Comedy Festival. Festival organizer
Charlie Hall and performer Doreen Collins Healy speak with FRI host Deborah
Becker.
THEATER REVIEW: "BARRYMORE"
WRNI theater critic Bill Marx reviews Gamm Theater's production of "Barrymore.
Written by William Luce and directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr., the play is
set in the spring of 1942, just before the late actor John Barrymore succumbed
to cirrhosis of the liver and pneumonia.
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phone: 401-351-1699
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