Eye surgery to remove cataracts is quite commonplace but wasn’t so in this Flashback.

Today’s Flashback has a Super Bowl feel.

A weather event that became very costly.

What one prominent mayor was doing before he became a prominent city mayor.

The last days of Mafia boss Raymond Patricarca.

On Jan. 17, 1994, a 6-point-7 quake struck California’s densely-populated San Fernando Valley.

January 19ths down through the years have been hard-luck days for the environment.

Today’s Flashback shows the anticipation and preparation for an event the entire nation was waiting for.

Many of us are about to being a long holiday weekend.  Martin Luther King Day is Monday, and it is a day off from work for many people. 

In the 1960s and 1970s, reporters had a real hard time getting close to the action at the Rhode Island General Assembly. 

Today’s Flashback goes back 32 years ago today, Jan.13, 1978.  It includes a bad weather day—-and a scandal at the Rhode Island State House. 

Today on Flashback, we have an example of a winter even colder than this one. 

Some very familiar faces in politics of the 1980s are featured on Flashback.

Our first Flashback item deals with the cost-of-living, 31 years ago today, Jan. 8, 1979.

It was a big controversy in the administration of Gov. Bruce Sundlun at the time.