John Larrabee
A better job let her help others find one, too
When Joyce Fastino took over as the new owner of The Personnel People more than a decade ago, she brought with her a penny-wise...
New initiatives with eye to maximizing resources
Jessica David, vice president for strategy, planning and special projects at The Rhode Island Foundation, has been making things happen since the day she...
Freedman strives for online security
Medical records, credit card data, your Social Security number – all that information is stored in computers. Passwords and firewalls protect that information, and...
Woonsocket is latest to weigh bankruptcy option
Bankruptcy is no easy way out for Rhode Island’s cash-strapped cities and towns, and taxpayers should not see it as a way to avoid...
Municipal finance done the right way
While some Rhode Island cities and towns are teetering toward bankruptcy, South Kingstown is on sound financial footing – and has been for years....
Good times ahead for R.I. convention industry
Burt Jagolinzer, general manager of Access Tours of Newport, never hides his pride when he recounts the celebrities who’ve climbed into his company’s vans...
In managing crises, CEOs must lead the way
One of Aram G. Garabedian’s earliest memories is from 1938, when he was just three years old. His mother took him along on a...
Budding entrepreneurs seeing green
(Corrected, Dec. 19, 25)
Someday soon the hosts of a backyard cookout could clean up by ripping their disposable plates in half and tossing them...
Medical device takes top elevator pitch prize
(Correction, Dec. 13)
PROVIDENCE – The top prize in this year’s Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Contest went to a Pawtucket company with a product that...
This firm is gold standard in equipment tracking
A small Portsmouth company, A2B Tracking Solutions, is engaged in a daunting task: they’re marking every piece of equipment owned by the U.S. military...


















