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Five Questions With: Steve Giarusso

Steve Giarusso, a welding training administrator and nondestructive examination manager with Thielsch Engineering Inc., has run a program for the R.I. Department of Labor...

Five Questions With: Dr. Vanessa Lund

Dr. Vanessa Lund, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand and elbow procedures at University Orthopedics, was selected late last year for the American Society...
UNDER A NEW EMERGENCY POLICY, the R.I. Department of Health allowed a state-run hospital and a privately run nursing home to allow COVID-19 positive employees into the workplace over the past weekend, Jan. 1 through Jan. 2, due to short staffing. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND HOSPITALS

Should workers who are COVID-19 positive be allowed to work in...

The R.I. Department of Health on Dec. 31 began allowing medical facilities in the state to use employees who are positive for COVID-19 to...

The future of work is hybrid

COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing. The global crisis...

Postcards could be effective tool in social safety net

President Joe Biden’s social safety net bill faces a tough road to passage. If it is passed, there’s another challenge ahead: How to get...

Some polarization is good, but this is bad

For the first time, the U.S. has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute...
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Five Questions With: Mark A. Sitcoske

Mark A. Sitcoske | CEO, High Purity New England 1. What type of equipment does High Purity New England make? The companies we work...
Christopher Whitten

Whitten named 2021 Rhode Island Realtor of the Year

CHRISTOPHER WHITTEN, broker and owner of Premeer Real Estate in Smithfield, was recently named the 2021 Rhode Island Realtor of the Year. The award...

Be inspired to be your best self

I recently came across this wonderful poem by Nancye Sims, “A Creed to Live By.” It captures life’s challenges in a very inspirational fashion,...

Five Questions With: Sharon Medeiros

Sharon Medeiros was recently named chief accounting officer and senior vice president for BankNewport. She joined the bank in 2015 and previously served as...
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