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Every Friday, GoLocalProv takes a look at who is rising and who is falling in Rhode Island and national politics, business, culture, and sports.

Ray Two Hawks Watson, one of Rhode Island’s leading advocates for equity, is joining GoLocal as a weekly MINDSETTER™. Watson, who has been a community leader and civil rights leader, has an accomplished career in business.

Two days from today marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on our nation’s Capitol. This unprecedented and violent attempt to block the peaceful transfer of power, incited by a president who was using the bully pulpit to repeatedly and falsely claim

For the past 9 years, I’ve written a New Year’s column listing reasons for optimism. (Click here to see how I did last year ) This year I do the same. It remains the nature of news and opinion writing that positive developments get short shrift.

Most of the media coverage of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has centered on the difficulty in getting prominent figures, including Steve Bannon, former Trump chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and top Trump justice departm