12 to Watch in 2012

Friday, December 30, 2011

GoLocalProv Editors

It's time for a New Year, and GoLocal's got the 12 who are set to make the biggest impact on the state in the year to come, and what an interesting list it is.

Surveying the halls of the State House to the three-point line at the Dunk, from classrooms to boardrooms, we've got our eye on a dozen fascinating Rhode Islanders (including one ambitious education program) who we think will define the year to come.

A year for young, ambitious women

One of the things that struck us about this year's list is the presence of young, ambitious women--from politics to entrepreneurship, from fashion to commercial design--staking a claim in Rhode Island's year to come. Rough economic times are often the richest for creativity and innovation, and we expect great things from these woman, as well as their male counterparts on our list.

See who's on the A-List for 2012, and we'll see you in the New Year.

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Comments:

Shannah Kurland

10:24am on Friday, December 30, 2011

One thing that struck me about this list is that it's almost exclusively white. Ironic that the only person of color on the list, as inspirational, smart and hardworking as he is, was selected from the field of sports. So we're supposed to believe that the shortest list of young ambitious women is all white? Politics, business, education too?

Lance Chappell

10:43am on Friday, December 30, 2011

Not impressed with this list. I can think of one you missed - glaring oversight!!

Not Telling

6:04pm on Friday, December 30, 2011

Achievement First Mayoral Academy will suck the life out of public education. When your mayor advocates for the charter school and not the public schools in their communities you know it is going to go down hill. Achievement First Mayoral Academy sucks the tax dollars out of the communities and forces the public schools to do with less. Our mayor in Cumberland does not advocate for grants for the public school he now does it for the charter school.

Mayoral Academies are a bad idea. Just look at how much it cost Cumberland for Dan McKee's great education idea.

robert benson

12:06am on Saturday, December 31, 2011

Charter Schools are a good alternative for the parents of children who attend schools classified as needing improvement or not performing up to established standards.

And in 2012 lets hope all cities and towns in R.I. who do not participate in the state's Municipal Employees Retirement System (MERS), have the courage to reform their own pension plans and take measures to weed out any fraudulent disability pensions.

The heroes in 2012 will be those who cut government spending at both the state and local levels. This will result in lower taxes, a better environment for businesses, and eventually lower the state's unemployment rate.

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