Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?
Friday, January 30, 2015
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. Send him email at
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From storm response kudos to tipped ships, from medical pioneers to employment numbers, plus a local viral video that's taking the nation by storm that GoLocalProv brought you first...find out "Who's Hot and Who's Not" this week in the slideshow below!
Related Slideshow: Side of the Rhode: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not - January 30, 2015
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Matt Glendinning
The Head of Moses Brown School cancelled school in the most awesome way possible this week when he created a cool video and sang his own version of Disney’s “Let it Go” from the movie Frozen, but instead called it “School is Closed”. He received national accolades for his creativity and sense of humor during what was a very aggravating day for the state. This video had a humble 215 views on YouTube before GoLocalProv broke the story and it went national. There are now over a million and a quarter views as the nation embraced the school's creativity.
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Northeast Governors
The Governors from the northeast states impacted by the storm, including Charlie Baker in Massachusetts, Andrew Cuomo in New York, Dannel Malloy in Connecticut, Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire (who kept the state’s “live free or die” motto alive by electing to not impose a travel ban) and yes, Gina Raimondo here in Rhode Island, all have received glowing reviews of their handling of the storm. They were undoubtedly aided by the fact that the storm’s accumulations were amassed during nighttime hours (as opposed to the rush hour commute), but their strong leadership certainly played a big role in the quick cleanup.
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Lincoln Chafee
As evidenced by his portrait, the former Governor had a very rocky tenure as the state’s chief executive. But let’s be fair: unlike his predecessor, Governor Don Carcieri, the former Governor handled snowstorms relatively well and never had any major hiccups directing the snow cleanups.
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The Memory of Dr. Stanley Aronson
The founding Dean of Medicine at Brown University passed away this week at the age of 92. Dr. Stanley Aronson was a pioneer of family medicine in America, and worked tirelessly to improve medical care in Rhode Island. His legacy will live on through the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University that he helped create.
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Joanne Giannini
Giannini is no longer a State Representative, but that hasn’t stopped her from working to end the disgusting practice of human trafficking, as evidenced by her column in GoLocalProv this week. It’s nice to see Giannini is still working to bring awareness to the problem after having done so much to combat it as a legislator.
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New England Patriots
“Deflategate” has turned out to be much ado about nothing as scientific experiments have shown the lower PSI in a football would make it about 1 millimeter smaller and reduces the weight by that of a dollar bill. As Rhode Island resident Taylor Swift has pointed out “haters gonna hate”. Super Bowl Prediction: Patriots 27 Seahawks 20.
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National Weather Service
It wasn’t a good week for the National Weather Service, which bungled the forecast and predicted more snow for areas that got less like New York City, and predicted lesser totals for areas that got more, like Western Massachusetts. Journalists, who are held to extremely high standards for accurate reporting, can only wish they had the same margin for error as weather forecasters.
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Providence Plowing
The city of Providence doesn’t have enough equipment to handle the plowing operations in the city when compared to other cities. GoLocalProv broke the story this week- The city of Worcester has just less than double the land mass of Providence, but 4 times the amount of equipment, while Cranston has less landmass but more plowing equipment. Given those facts, it was no surprise that the roads in Providence were still a mess more than a day after the storm had ended.
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