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MARGARET HOWARD, owner of TLCare Wear in Warwick, handles the manufacturing of nursing scrubs at her 3-year-old business. /

Sewing from experience generates a business for RN

This is the ninth in a series of 12 PBN articles focusing on the backgrounds, challenges and successes of some of the area’s most...

RWU one of 14 schools to land research grant

Roger Williams University has been selected as one of 14 institutions in the country to earn an award from the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research...

Small business owners feeling the squeeze from R.I.’s insurers

To the editor, As a small business owner and consumer, I am appalled at the idea that the only two games in town, Blue Cross...

Future innovation demands more collaboration today

Today’s conversation on innovation typically focuses on individual companies or market sectors. But with his new book, “Innovation Nation,” serial innovator John Kao has...
BESIDES THE WWII MEMORIAL in Washington, D.C., above, Friedrich St. Florian is best known for his design for the Providence Place mall and its Skybridge and his efforts as a RISD educator. /

St. Florian elected to AIA College of Fellows

PROVIDENCE – Friedrich St. Florian, a professor emeritus of the Rhode Island School of Design and the designer of the $160 million World War...
WENDY BROWN, owner of Wendy Brown Linens, began selling linens out of her Rumford home in 1990. By 2000, she had opened an 
Elmgrove Avenue storefront before moving to her store’s current home in Wayland Square in 2005. /

Linens among life’s finer things

Selling queen-size bedroom linen sets with an average cost of about $500, and as high as $800, requires a certain amount of tact. But Wendy...

SBANE still seeking nominees for 2008 Innovation Awards

WALTHAM, Mass. – There’s still time, until 5 p.m. Wednesday, to submit nominations to the Smaller Business Association of New England’s annual Innovation Awards....

Networking sites can help businesses

Business networking Web sites, or more generally, “social networking” sites with a business bent are exploding across the Internet. If you’ve resisted the temptation...
BURRILLVILLE HIGH team members show off their robot. They and the other top R.I. teams, from Tiverton High and The Met School, will advance to the international competition. /

High school robotics teams vie in Tech Challenge

WARWICK – Teams from more than 30 high schools across the state took part in the annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and...
CHARLES FISHBEIN, owner of Coffee Exchange on Wickenden Street in Providence, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Specialty Coffee Association of America /

Providence brewed up big change in coffee

Two decades ago, a coffee revolution started in Providence. It was not about frothy drinks or selling CDs. Rather, it was about a local...
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