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Friday, April 28, 2017
Russell J. Moore, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™
Every Friday, GoLocalProv's Russ Moore breaks down who is rising and who is falling in RI politics, business, and sports. Moore has worked on both sides of the desk in Rhode Island media, both for newspapers and on political campaigns.
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Barack Obama
It’s good to be a former President of the United States. Obama will reportedly be paid roughly $400,000 to speak at the Cantor Fitzgerald LP health care conference this September (first reported by Fox Business News). Obama, who has stayed out of the limelight since leaving office, also spoke at the site of his future presidential library in Chicago earlier this week.
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RI Law Day
Today is Rhode Island Law Day, which means judges and lawyers will be visiting 48 high schools and middle schools throughout the state to talk about their careers and discuss the 14th amendment to the US Constitution, and how it impacts American democracy. The event, sponsored by the Rhode Island Bar Association and the RI Judiciary, is an excellent opportunity for students to learn more about not only the profession, but also about how our judicial system works.
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Seth Magaziner
The state’s General Treasurer told Rhode Island Public Radio this week that he voted to fire all of the sitting members from the Wells Fargo Board of Directors. Wells Fargo has come under intense scrutiny after it was revealed that the company opened up over 2 million fake accounts in customer’s names in order to meet sales goals. The move wasn’t successful, but good for Magaziner, as accountability should come from the top, and that means the board of Wells Fargo.
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Michael Flynn
It’s not a good sign for President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn--a Rhode Islander--when the Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman, Jason Chaffetz, tells the media that it appears that Flynn broke the law when he failed to disclose that he took money from the Russian government in 2015 for a speech. Flynn must not be resting easy given that members of his own party are probing him for potential criminal wrongdoing.
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911 System
For an extended period of time on Monday, the statewide 911 system was down. That left folks scrambling and needing to call their local police departments or fire departments directly in the event of an emergency. Those are numbers that folks don’t have handy, thanks to the ubiquity of the 911 number. This is yet another black eye for the state’s technology systems, which have been atrocious over the last few years.
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Ivanka Trump
The President’s daughter has placed herself in the limelight thanks to taking an unprecedented official advisory role in the Trump administration that comes with a security clearance. So that means she is fair game for criticism. Ivanka needs to explain why her clothing line is produced by workers in Chinese factories who earn just 60 dollars per week while working almost 60 hours over the same time period, according to a Fair Labor Association Report. I guess her actions don’t match her rhetoric. (It must run in the family.)
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