Five Questions With: Dawn A. Mugford
Dawn A. Mugford was recently named chief risk officer for the Rockland Trust Co. and its parent company, Independent Bank Corp. Mugford has more...
Five Questions With: Christina Pitney
Christina Pitney, senior vice president for government programs at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, discusses the insurer’s 5-Star Medicare plans, including...
Do you support Providence’s evolving racial reparations plan?
The Providence City Council will soon take up spending recommendations for the city’s still-evolving racial reparations program designed for Black and Indigenous residents.
The proposals...
Five Questions With: Dawn Marie Tramontano
As a newcomer to Rhode Island’s real estate industry, Dawn Marie Tramontano hit the ground running this year at Century 21 Limitless, which is...
Five Questions With: Elizabeth M. Tanner
Elizabeth M. Tanner | Secretary of commerce, Rhode Island
1. How will you use your experience at the R.I. Department of Business Regulation in this new...
DiPietro elected board chair of Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England
JANICE DIPIETRO, founder and CEO of Boston executive growth firm Executive Leaders International, was recently elected as the new board chairman of the Girl...
Low child poverty levels could have been lower
The U.S. government will likely report this month that for 2021 its most accurate measure of child poverty was the lowest on record. This...
The necessity of action
Suppose you have five birds sitting on a wire and three of them decide to fly. How many birds would you have left on...
Cyber Sessions: No more hiding from cybersecurity
(Editor’s note: A version of this column was first published on PBN.com on Aug. 16.)
As the speed of business and the rate of technology...
3 ways to better manage your cash flow
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect how companies do business, it’s even more critical for business leaders to have access to accurate cash...

















