Five Questions With: Bruce Van Saun
5Q: Bruce Van Saun
Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group Inc.
1. You’ve said this is a time to push forward, not pull back. What top...
Five Questions With: Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira is principal broker at June Realty in Providence. Pereira was recently named 2026 president of the 6,000-member Rhode Island Association of Realtors....
Is Rhode Island becoming too dependent on revenue from legal sports...
Sales tax revenue from sports betting is surging nationally, contributing to a decline in Rhode Island’s take by 3.2% in fiscal 2025, to $18.6...
Five Questions With: Joe Pierik
Joe Pierik is vice president for retail leasing and acquisitions at Carpionato Group, a third-generation property development company, which recently announced five new dining...
Five Questions With: Trang Smith
Trang Smith is the newly promoted vice president and retail lending systems manager at BankNewport, overseeing the platforms that support the bank’s residential lending...
Five Questions With: Isaac Stoner
Isaac Stoner is the newly appointed CEO of MindImmune Therapeutics, a University of Rhode Island spinout company working to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s...
Can Rhode Island businesses afford to keep raising the minimum wage...
Since 2018, Rhode Island has raised its minimum wage seven times, totaling a 39% increase.
The state’s minimum wage will rise again on New Year’s...
This is one big opportunity for affordable housing
The shortage of affordable housing in Rhode Island and the South Coast region of Massachusetts is a challenge that lawmakers, businesses and state agencies...
ELISHA Project director awarded Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment
GEORGE ORTIZ, co-founder and executive director of The ELISHA Project, has been awarded the 2025 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment by the Rhode...
Everything begins with an idea
In 1930, a Hungarian inventor named Laszlo Jozsef Biro saw some children playing with balls in the water. He noticed that the balls left...
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