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Five Questions With: Derek Simpson

Derek Simpson is a real estate agent with Pam Hogan Homes LLC, which established itself as an independent brokerage in spring 2022. Formerly an...

Five Questions With: Jonathan D. Drake

Dr. Jonathan D. Drake is the associate director of Rhode Island Hospital’s Alzheimer's Disease & Memory Disorders Center and an assistant professor in the...

Is the state doing enough to collect on the $65.2 million...

The state’s top 200 tax delinquents include many businesses and individuals who have been on those lists for years. They owe a combined $65.2 million,...
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Five Questions With: Joseph Mulligan

Joseph Mulligan | Director of planning and development, city of Providence 1. What are your priorities for Providence as the city’s new director of...
Koray Özpolat

Sanctions should be used only sparingly

Marking the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration announced another round of sanctions “to further degrade Russia’s economy and diminish...
Thomas Tzitzouris

Politics of bank regulation never about making banks safer

The modern banking structure has been around for at least 700 years. And banks have been failing for 700 years. From 1980 until the early...
Brian P. Stern

Stern elected chair of RWU School of Law board

BRIAN P. STERN, associate justice of the R.I. Superior Court, was elected chairperson of the Roger Williams University School of Law board of directors...

The tenacious three D’s

A young college graduate, determined to find a position with a reputable company, began seeking interviews. Although she faced continual rejection, she persevered. One...
Daniel F. Stone

The ‘undue hate in U.S. politics

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew raised eyebrows when she suggested on Presidents Day that the United States pursue a “national divorce.” “The last thing...

Five Questions With: Ryan Elsman

Ryan Elsman is sales manager for Compass Inc. in Rhode Island, and he was recently appointed to lead the company’s Compass Providence office. Elsman,...
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