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Five Questions With: Geb Masterson

Geb Masterson is a senior global real estate adviser at Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty in Westerly. He first joined the real estate...

Five Questions With: Dr. Stephen Marcaccio

Dr. Stephen Marcaccio, a Rhode Island native, has recently joined The Sports Medicine Center at University Orthopedics Inc. He is fellowship-trained in both orthopedic sports...
ACCORDING TO A STUDY by Philadelphia-based consulting firm EConsultSolutions Inc., Providence College's athletic programs, including the men's basketball team, generate approximately $100.3 million in total economic impact across Rhode Island annually, creating and/or generating 630 jobs in the process. / PBN FILE PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Should the state and/or local communities help fund college athletics?

Providence College last month released results of a study it commissioned on the economic and social impact of its athletics programs. The report by a...

Five Questions With: Kevin Shepherd

Kevin Shepherd is the broker principal behind Esoteric Concepts LLC in Providence. A practicing Realtor for 10 years, he is the president of the...
Elizabeth Howlett

Howlett appointed president of AARP Rhode Island

ELIZABETH HOWLETT, a former elected official who served both in the R.I. Senate and two terms as the state’s lieutenant governor, was recently appointed...
Douglas S. Alexander / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Douglas S. Alexander

Douglas S. Alexander | Director, Rhode Island College Institute for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies 1. What is your vision and goal for the institute?...

Business Bestsellers

Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh.  Setoodeh chronicles Trump’s tenure as New...
Brandon Cline

Many top companies set age limits for CEOs, with good reason

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, is 78. No one older has ever run for U.S. president as their party’s official nominee....
Morvarid Rahmani

In homelessness fight, better measurements needed

Homelessness is a major problem in the U.S., and it’s getting worse. A record 650,000 Americans were homeless on a single night in January...

How to make opportunities happen

There is an ancient superstition of the sea that periodically a wave comes along that is greater than any that has preceded it. It...
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