slides: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot & Who’s Not? - September 22, 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
Russell J. Moore GoLocal MINDSETTER™
Every Friday, GoLocalProv's Russ Moore breaks down who is rising and who is falling in Rhode Island 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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Ocean State Oyster Festival
The third annual Ocean State Oyster Festival will take place this Saturday at River Walk Park on South Water Street in Providence from 1 pm until 7 pm.
The event seeks to support and raise awareness about the state’s aquaculture industry. There will be food trucks, live bands, and of course, oysters at the event.
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Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox clinched a postseason berth on Wednesday night after they defeated the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Angels were defeated by the Cleveland Indians.
The home team is also in position, barring a late-season skid, to clinch the coveted American League East title over their heated rival, the New York Yankees.
Can the Red Sox make a realistic run at the World Series despite how well the Cleveland Indians have played in the second half of the season?
That remains to be seen, but there’s room for optimism.
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Donna Nesselbush
The state senator from Pawtucket fashions herself as a progressive champion - someone who fights for those in society who aren’t strong enough to fight for themselves (the poor, the oppressed).
So why is she leading the charge to build a brand new baseball stadium for the uber-rich folks who own the Pawtucket Red Sox, like Larry Lucchino, Terry Murray et. al? Who don't live here?
Why should we spend our valuable and scarce tax dollars helping these wealthy individuals when we could be spending it on those in need? It seems like there’s some sort of cognitive dissonance going on in the mind of the state senator.
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Toys ‘R’ Us
The iconic toy company has declared bankruptcy, a move which can be attributed to, among other things, Amazon’s influence on the marketplace and their Wall Street owners taking on far too much debt.
The world is changing fast, and we’re all going to have to adjust with far fewer brick and mortar stores as we all move forward.
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Barack Obama
The President of the United States is earning big bucks giving speeches on Wall Street. He earned $400,000 last month for speaking before the Northern Trust Corporation.
He will give a speech that was sponsored by The Carlyle Group and he is slated to do more. How can people truly believe that the GOP is the party of Wall Street when Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Obama clean up by getting lucrative speaking engagements from finance titans? Could it be that both parties are subservient to the finance industry?
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Social Media Brawls
There was a serious fight on social media between former Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Ken Block and former Rhode Island NBC 10 investigative reporter Jim Taricani. Block was talking about his voter fraud findings and Taricani referred to him as a “right wing extremist”.
I stopped arguing with people about politics on Facebook (and in real life) some time ago, once I realized that I had never once convinced anyone to change their opinion, and in fact, I found that nobody had ever convinced anyone to change their opinion.
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