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Five questions with Mike Steinmetz

Mike Steinmetz | Cybersecurity officer, homeland security adviser, Rhode Island 1. What are your responsibilities as the state’s first cybersecurity officer? I will serve as...

Tourism holding its own

People in the travel business have been warning that President Donald Trump’s administration’s isolationist rhetoric and tougher border controls – as evidenced by the...
Bruce Newbury

R.I.’s chowder tradition endures

It is not difficult to find a restaurant around here that serves chowder. Whether clam, seafood, corn, shrimp or lobster – perhaps the lobster...
M. TERESA PAIVA WEED is the president of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. She served in the Rhode Island Senate for 25 years, and was previously Senate president from 2009-2017. /COURTESY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND

Five Questions With: M. Teresa Paiva Weed

M. Teresa Paiva Weed joined the Hospital Association of Rhode Island in April 2017. As HARI president, she oversees day-to-day operations of the association...
HAILEY RASKOB, a North Smithfield High School senior, organized and ran a tennis tournament to benefit the Alzheimer's Association for her senior project. /COURTESY CHESTNUT HILL STUDIOS

Five Questions With: Hailey Raskob

Hailey Raskob, a North Smithfield High School senior, has lived in the area and played tennis for as long as she can remember. She...

Medeiros donates $1K prize to New Bedford Homeless Advocates

MATT MEDEIROS, of Fall River, earned the $1,000 grand prize from Entrepreneurship for All’s South Coast Pitch Contest. Medeiros, co-founder of Slocum Design Studio,...
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Five questions with Steven G. O’Donnell

1. After five years as the R.I. State Police superintendent and serving as the commissioner of the R.I. Department of Public Safety, why did...
JAMES DERENTIS IS A sales associate with Residential Properties Ltd. and the listing agent for the Kettle Point condominium development in East Providence. /COURTESY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES LTD.

Five Questions With: James DeRentis

Residential Properties Ltd. has begun marketing the Kettle Point condominium development in East Providence, the first new residential construction on the city’s waterfront. James...
DAVE AIELLO co-founded the bitcoin peer-to-peer transfer platform Token with Matt Mitchell to help build a "more global, transparent and interconnected economy." /COURTESY DAVE AIELLO

Five Questions With: Dave Aiello

Dave Aiello is the co-founder and CEO of Token Labs, a Providence-based peer-to-peer money transfer network using the digital currency bitcoin that was recently...
MARC EDDY is a senior vice president, small-business banking manager at Bank of America in Providence. /COURTESY BANK OF AMERICA

Five Questions With: Marc Eddy

Marc Eddy is a senior vice president, small-business banking manager at Bank of America in Providence. He talks with Providence Business News about a...
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