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Five Questions With: Dr. Max Cohen

Care New England Health System recently hired Dr. Max Cohen as part of the Medical and Surgical Weight Loss Center at Kent County Memorial...
PVDFEST WILL BE HELD on Sept. 6-7 and return to downtown Providence this year. / COURTESY FIRSTWORKS

Did Providence make the right move bringing the annual PVDFest back...

Mayor Brett P. Smiley on March 12 announced that the city’s largest outdoor arts and culture celebration will return to the downtown in early...

Five Questions With: Shannon Gilkey

Shannon Gilkey is the Rhode Island postsecondary education commissioner. He spoke with Providence Business News about the relocation to Providence of the Rhode Island...
Nora Barré / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Nora Barré

Nora Barré | Executive director, Downtown Providence Parks Network 1. What is the Downtown Providence Parks Network’s role in the city, and what resources...
D. Ellen Wilson

Wilson named new Bryant University board chair

D. ELLEN WILSON, who has worked with leaders in the financial services and health care sectors throughout her career, was recently named Bryant University’s...

The big impact of the little things

One of my favorite sayings is, “Little things mean a lot – not true. Little things mean everything.” It is the little things that separate...
James Worrell

Retirement savings: When every dollar counts

Do you know how much you are paying for your 401(k) or 403(b) plan and investments? Paying too much in fees, even just 1%...
David 
R. Buys

Age-friendly colleges can improve 2nd half of life

By 2030, more than 1.4 billion people across the globe will be at least 60 years old. This number will shoot up to 2.1...
Danielle Williams

When it comes to AI, we’ve been here before

A room-sized computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced in 1958 in a brief news story buried in The...

Five Questions With: Dustin Dezube

Dustin Dezube is managing partner and principal developer at The Providence Group, an interdisciplinary real estate development organization involved in complex real estate development,...
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