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Rhode Island pension reformer may win battle, lose war
PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo has experienced a meteoric rise to fame that most politicians can only envy.
Raimondo, a 41-year-old...
Five Questions With: George Loftus
As president and CEO of OSHEAN Inc., the nonprofit coalition of universities, hospitals, government agencies and other nonprofits, George Loftus has a front-row seat...
Sysco exit, GM shutdown hit Norton hard
NORTON – A double whammy of bad economic news has hit this town of 19,222 recently, with its largest employer and taxpayer firming up...
Five Questions With: Christopher Dale
Christopher Dale is president and CEO of The Apex Technology Group Inc.
PBN: Tell me about what you do at Apex.
DALE: As the president and...
Brown elevates engineering with new school
This week, Brown University becomes the last school in the Ivy League to turn its engineering program into a full-fledged School of Engineering. Administrators...
Technology firms find eager investors
The founders of NuOrtho Surgical Inc. picked what would seem to have been an inauspicious month to get a new company off the ground:...
Missing Medicaid funds worry Carcieri
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri is “very concerned” about the U.S. Senate’s failure to approve extra Medicaid assistance that state officials are depending...
Betaspring applications nearly triple
PROVIDENCE – Local startup incubator Betaspring LLC nearly tripled the number of applications it received this year from technology and design entrepreneurs seeking to...
Providence’s population still shrinking
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PROVIDENCE – The city’s population shrank slightly from 2008 to 2009, continuing a six-year trend of residential decline in the state capital,...
Five Questions With: Moses Goddard
Dr. Moses Goddard is co-founder of Cytosolv Inc. in Providence and an associate professor of surgery at Brown University.
PBN: Could you explain the research...
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