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SERVING WITH HONOR: Tides Family Services caseworkers, from left, at table: Robert Reyes, Chantelle Rotolo, Vanessa DeLeon, and Greg D'Ambrea. At desk in rear is supervisor Patrick Costello. /

Concern for staff yields support for clients

It takes a certain kind of person to work at Tides Family Services Inc. The employees have not gotten raises in 10 years –...
TUNED IN: Cox Communications technician William Hopkins climbs down a ladder during a pole installation in Warwick. /

Cox’ investment in its work force pays dividends

One of the reasons Cox Communications keeps showing up as one of Providence Business News’ Best Places to Work is because the communications company...
CHANGE OF PLANS: Tia Bush, now executive director of Amgen’s R.I. operations, initially joined the company while she waited to start medical school. /

A role model who relishes task in and out of work

Tia Bush has been with the same company, Amgen, since graduating from college 17 years ago. Her devotion to the company’s mission has led...
HOMEWARD BOUND: HousingWorks RI Executive Director Nellie Gorbea says the lack of affordable housing in Rhode Island is costing the state tax revenue. /

Gorbea a champion for more affordable housing

If Nellie Gorbea has her way, affordable housing won’t be an issue for Rhode Islanders much longer. And she’s doing everything in her power...
TAKING IT ON: Tracy Baran, partner at Partridge Snow & Hahn, serves on boards, works for community organizations and teaches Sunday school in addition to her career. /

‘Doing it all’ is more than a mantra for Baran

Somehow, Tracy C. Baran manages to be a partner at a law firm, serve on numerous community organizations and boards, mentor teenage girls and...

Warwick enrolling city workers in ER Card program

Warwick received a $75,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation last November to pilot an electronic personal health-record program that is proving to lower...
GOV. DONALD L. CARCIERI proposed his Small Business Stimulus Package in December. The plan would make loans available to companies. /

Negotiating credit card debt can save business

With banks scrutinizing borrowers more closely and reducing their lending, business owners in Rhode Island and throughout the country have increasingly used high-rate credit...

Window treatments that look good, save energy

Jeff Marhall and his wife, Susan, bought their Budget Blinds franchise about three years ago as a way to work for themselves in interior...
A CLEAR ADVANTAGE: Michael Del Sesto, owner of Advantage Glass, stands outside his new office building in Cranston. /

Advantage owner has clear view of success

In spite of the recession, Cranston-based Advantage Glass Co. Inc. owner Michael Del Sesto experienced his best year ever in 2008, thanks in part...
PLEADING FOR HELP: Boat World in Warwick, which is currently in receivership, has posted two yellow banners making its plight public. Other boat retailers in the state are in a similar situation. /

Bankruptcies on the rise in R.I.

Business is booming for Christopher Lefebvre, a lawyer with Claude Lefebvre & Sons. About 80 percent of his 20-year-old practice in Pawtucket focuses...
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