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Change the Name of Providence Airport?

Matthew McDonald

The airport, which is actually in Warwick, Rhode Island south of Providence, is known as T.F. Green, after Theodore Francis Green (1867-1966), a long-ago and little-remembered governor and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. The airport manager and the mayor of Warwick are thinking about renaming it "Rhode Island International Airport" (since "Warwick International Airport" doesn't have the same ring); the Rhode Island General Assembly would have to agree to make the change.

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Vermont Editor Under Fire For Calling ‘Third Gender’ Pronoun ‘Sign of the Apocalypse’

Matthew McDonald

The executive editor of The Burlington Free Press questioned in a tweet the wisdom of Vermont officially adopting a "third gender" pronoun for transgender people. Now many media commenters are expressing outrage.

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