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Some are upset with working waterfront proposal for Providence Comprehensive Plan

A compromise between Providence city councilors and Mayor Brett P. Smiley is expected to clear the way for passage of the city’s 10-year Comprehensive...

Woonsocket district named to National Register of Historic Places

WOONSOCKET – A seventh city district has won designation to the National Register of Historic Places. The Federal Street Historic District, which includes six properties...

Brown adds online master’s degree in data science

PROVIDENCE – Technology advances and their ethical applications will stand as a central focus in a new online degree program offered by Brown University. The...

URI-led team nets $500K to develop wearable tech for stroke survivors

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – An international collaboration led by University of Rhode Island researchers will seek to develop wearable technology to help stroke survivors recover...
IN PROGRESS: The nonprofit SWAP Inc. (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) is building this two-family house at Burnside and Arnold streets in East Providence to sell to a family that meets income limits. Supporters of Question 3 on the ballot say similar affordable housing programs will be funded with a $120 million bond issue. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

BUILDING BONDS: New housing, higher ed facilities top $343M in bond...

In Rhode Island, $107,452 won’t get residents very far in the housing market. That figure – the state’s median household income – doesn’t support an...
QUESTION 1 on Rhode Island's statewide ballot is asking voters whether a constitutional convention should be convened to consider amendments to the state constitution. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Constitutional convention? Clashing views

Rhode Island’s first statewide ballot question is an outlier in more than one way, observers say. When Rhode Islanders vote in the general election, Question...
TAKE CHARGE: Normand Duquette, right, senior vice president of Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., moderates a panel discussion on strategies for controlling external risk at Providence Business News’ 2024 Cybersecurity, AI and Tech Summit at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick in Warwick on Oct. 10. Panelists from left are: Peter Reid, assistant professor of information technology at Johnson & Wales University; Rick Norberg, CEO of Vertikal6 Inc.; Brian J. Lamoureux, partner at Pannone, Lopes, Devereaux & O’Gara LLC; and Kim Keever, chief information security officer and senior vice president at Cox Communications Inc.
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PBN tech summit ‘You can’t outsource your responsibility’ to protect customer...

In a global environment where criminal hacking has become an industry in itself, Peter Reid acknowledges that few businesses have the resources to hire...
AI PROPONENTS: Christopher Parisi, right, president of Trailblaze Inc., moderates a panel discussion on how artificial intelligence can transform businesses in Rhode Island at Providence Business News’ 2024 Cybersecurity, AI and Tech Summit at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick in Warwick on Oct. 10. Panelists from left are: Arnell Milhouse, co-founder and CEO at SiliconXL and DevAccelerator Inc.; Tim Henry, professor at Rhode Island College; and Dori Albert, president of Spyglass MTG LLC.  
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Panel pushes for R.I. businesses to adopt AI, says state lags...

If artificial intelligence was personified as one of your co-workers, Rhode Island College professor Tim Henry says, it would right now rank as an...
Kristie DeJesus / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Kristie DeJesus

Kristie DeJesus | Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking at Bryant University 1. What is your vision for Bryant’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Design...
PRE-FAB HOMES: A crane moves a pre-manufactured housing unit into place on Bowdoin Street in Providence during ONE Neighborhood Builders’ construction of an eight-unit apartment house, which was completed in 2022. 

COURTESY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS

R.I. has fallen behind in use of manufactured homes

As a housing crisis continues to rage throughout the U.S., a recent report notes that more residents are willing to live in nontraditional quarters...
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