Eli Sherman
Eli Sherman is an award-winning journalist. He joined Providence Business News in November 2014 having previously worked as a metro reporter at the Waltham News Tribune. Sherman writes about economics, energy and the environment, entrepreneurship and finance. He's received top awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, The Alliance of Area Business Publishers, the New England Newspaper & Press Association and The Rhode Island Press Association.
Five Questions With Kasim J. Yarn
Kasim J. Yarn | Director, R.I. Office of Veterans Affairs
1. What are the greatest challenges today facing veterans in search of employment? One of...
Paying for badly needed school upgrades now will limit future borrowing....
Trinity Briceno, a senior at Cranston East High School, didn’t attend school between December and April.
She was hospitalized in November after students and teachers...
Fishing apprenticeship program aimed at getting military veterans back to work
Veterans often face a host of challenges when returning to civilian life after military service.
Among the biggest is entering and adjusting to the civilian...
Getting motors runnin’
After serving in the Coast Guard and working 20 years as a policeman, James “Big Jim” Annis decided to retire and open a motorcycle...
Keeping moms, babies healthy
When Kathleen F. Moren moved to Rhode Island from Chicago in the late 1990s, she found the state lacked services for new mothers.
In 1999,...
Five Questions With Mark Hellendrung
Mark Hellendrung | President, Narragansett Beer
1. How would you describe the ’Gansetts’ performance last year? We had another great year in 2017 with...
R.I. needs bigger elder-care workforce
Geriatrics, like pediatrics, provides care for a specific demographic.
But the care for older adults – unlike the care for children – does not attract...
The state is only the latest to eye profits from Rhode...
Elaine Keevin took morphine for eight years to battle what was later diagnosed as complex regional pain syndrome, a chronic condition the McGill Pain...
Risk-taking propels Mikel’s can-do CEO
WHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING A BUSINESS, failure is not an option for Kelly Mendell, president of MIKEL Inc. in Middletown.
That’s according to Mark...
Biograph Venture early-stage funding boost for startups
Richard G. Horan, a leader in the local entrepreneurship community, has founded Biograph Venture Development LLC to give aspiring business owners greater access to...
