Will dam regulations hold water?
With 674 dams to inspect throughout the state, Paul Guglielmino, the R.I. Department of Environmental Management’s only dam inspector, is busy – too overworked...
Celebrating and showing off
For local entertainers such as Rory Raven, a Providence-based mentalist and mindbender, Bright Night Providence provides one crucial element to their business model: exposure.
Raven...
Golfing has big-time impact
Rhode Island natives Brad Faxon, left, and Billy Andrade – hosts of the CVS Caremark Charity Classic – take part in a recent...
Trash becomes family’s treasure
Recycling was not a term used to describe Hymen Berger’s business plan in 1912, when the Russian immigrant began traveling Rhode Island with a...
‘Uninterruptible’ power supply unveiled by APC
WEST KINGSTON – American Power Conversion Corp., a business unit of Schneider Electric, on Dec. 3 introduced its APC Back-UPS ES 750, a highly...
When small things have big effects
In the biology of the ocean, the vitality of the smallest link in the chain of life has a profound impact on the largest....
Fix the state budget, so the state can fix the dams
While there is a cost associated with the R.I. Department of Environmental Management’s recently implemented regulations governing the inspection of the state’s 674 dams,...
Patents key to creative economy
Dear Editor:
I read with great interest your Q&A of Carolyn Kaplan (“Attorney tapped to head firm’s ‘green’ efforts,” Dec. 3), an attorney recently named...
Keeping the ‘office’ in office holiday parties
How office-like is your holiday party? Providence Business News asks local business how their companies approach office parties and avert possible misbehavior.
Do you...
EPA approves Northeast mercury reduction plan
BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a multi-state plan to lower mercury levels in fish throughout New England and New York....
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