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Five Questions With: Philip Tedesco

Philip Tedesco is chief executive officer of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors, Rhode Island Statewide Multiple Listing Service and the Realtor Foundation of...

Five Questions With: Michelle Kile

Michelle Kile was appointed executive vice president and chief retail banking officer at The Washington Trust Co. in November. She previously held a similar...

Do you support former Providence Mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr.’s plan...

Former Providence Mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr. is proposing a downtown beautification plan for the capital city. The plan proposes street-by-street recommendations for improvements such...

Five Questions With: Rena Wing

A research team from The Miriam Hospital and Bradley Hospital, both of which are operated by Brown University Health, announced it will conduct a $10 million...

Five Questions With: Bryan Quinlan

Bryan Quinlan is a real estate agent at Keller Williams Realty Leading Edge. He joined the firm in 2024 after working with Redfin. A...

Should Providence set a so-called consumption tax of 7% on the...

Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley is proposing a 7% sales tax on commercial parking lots and garages. Smiley estimates the tax could raise an estimated...
HELPING HAND: Foster Forward Executive Director Lisa Guillette, center with flowers, poses with her family after receiving the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment for her work supporting teenagers and young adults in the foster care system. 
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Guillette wins Rhode Island Foundation’s Murray Family Prize

LISA GUILLETTE, executive director of East Providence-based nonprofit Foster Forward, was recently presented with the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community...

The plus side of mistakes

A college basketball coach was reflecting on his team’s 115-57 loss during his postgame press conference and said, “I think the whole game hinged...
Greg ­Almieda

Capital One-Discover merger could benefit ‘credit invisible’ in R.I.

Too many Rhode Islanders, particularly our minority communities and minority-owned businesses, face real challenges when it comes to financial inclusion. That’s why we are...

Five Questions With: Sam Sacco

Sam Sacco is a senior business and economics lecturer at Salve Regina University. Sacco’s students, in partnership with the Rhode Island Hospitality Association, recently...
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