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Are you happy with the way state leaders have handled the...

Late in the day on Dec. 11, state officials announced the sudden closure of westbound lanes on the Washington Bridge due to safety concerns. Engineers...

Five Questions With: Stacey Messier

Stacey Messier is general manager of Cambridge Innovation Center New England, including the organization's flexible coworking space in Rhode Island, CIC Providence, located in...

Five Questions With: Dr. Ian Madom

The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission recently selected the Rhode Island-based continuing medical education management platform designer My MOC Inc., doing business as Mocingbird,...

Is it fair to third-year students for colleges to mandate that...

Six of the Rhode Island’s 10 four-year colleges – all of them private – require students to live on campus for at least their...
Lila Rabinovich

There’s a financial literacy gender gap

EVery day, families across the U.S. have to make difficult decisions about budgeting, spending, insurance, investments, savings, retirement and on and on. When faced...
Cassandra Thomas / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Cassandra Thomas

5Q: Cassandra Thomas | Director of economic development, city of Providence 1. What are the greatest economic challenges facing the city and the best...

Mistakes are learning opportunities

The daughter of American essayist, lecturer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was attending school away from her home when she indicated in a letter...
Thomas F. Gilbane Jr.,

Gilbane awarded for contributions that improved design and construction industry

THOMAS F. GILBANE JR., chairman of construction and property management firm Gilbane Inc. in Providence, was recently presented with the National Academy of Construction’s...
Matthew Gomez

An opportunity on Arctic sea routes is slipping away

What if I told you that buying your Christmas presents and getting your deliveries from Amazon or Walmart could cost less in the future?...
Sarah J. Morath

Foot-dragging slows treaty on plastic production

Plastic pollution has spread to Earth’s farthest reaches, with widespread effects on wildlife, the environment and human health. To curb this problem, U.N. member...
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