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Jay L. ­Zagorsky

Ways to avoid AI custom pricing

Recently, Delta Air Lines announced it would expand its use of artificial intelligence to set airfare prices. This move sparked concern among flyers and...
Peter ­Boumgarden

For 35M small businesses, tariff uncertainty hits especially hard

Imagine it’s April 2025 and you’re the owner of a small but fast-growing e-commerce business. Historically, you’ve sourced products from China, but the president...

Five Questions With: Connor Dowd

Connor Dowd is the founder, operator and broker associate behind The Connor Dowd Realty Group at Keller Williams Coastal Realty, based in Middletown and...
BUS RIDERS LINE UP recently at Kennedy Plaza in Providence to board the R.I. Public Transit Authority bus on Route 31 to Cranston Street. Route 31 is one of the route that will be see reduced frequency under service cuts. PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Was Gov. Daniel J. McKee right to urge the R.I. Public...

The R.I. Public Transit Authority on Aug. 7 postponed voting on proposed service cuts after Gov. Daniel J. McKee urged the agency to draft...

Five Questions With: George Paskalis

George Paskalis is the executive vice president of MG Commercial Real Estate Services Inc., after buying the firm together with partner Leeds Mitchell IV...

Five Questions With: Jessica L. Couto

Jessica L. Couto has been promoted to vice president and branch manager of BankNewport’s Portsmouth branch at 2628 East Main Road, where she will...

Five Questions With: Dr. Sara Holmes

July is recognized as UV Safety Awareness Month. Dr. Sara Holmes, who works in family medicine at Care New England Health System, recently spoke...
HIDDEN HAZARD: Claudia Conley, owner of Claudia’s Furry Tailz Pet Spa LLC, stands in the doorway at the spa on Market Street on a dry summer day. She says she lost two days of business last winter because of flooding. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Should other coastal communities follow Warren’s “managed retreat” from rising sea...

Since 2021, Warren has been plotting a “managed retreat” from flood-prone areas. It's a bold plan state environmental leaders see as a model for...
Edward T. Broderick / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Edward T. Broderick 


Edward T. Broderick | CEO, Gilbane Inc. 1. You started at Gilbane as a laborer more than four decades ago. What lessons from those early...
MJ Kaplan

An easily solvable problem: food waste in R.I.

After relocating from Providence to Narragansett, I built a fenced-in vegetable garden and was eager to deepen my knowledge of gardening. I looked into...
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