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Not everyone is sold on McKee’s plan to boost MBE program

Print Featured 03/03/2023

AFTER THE STATE last year exceeded the minimum requirements for awarding government contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, Gov. Daniel J. McKee wants to...

NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE: Olin Thompson, a Jewelry District resident and amateur historian, points to the architectural features on a stone building at 110 Elm St. that was once a foundry and is now leased by Brown University for administrative and medical offices.  PBN PHOTO/CLAUDIA CHIAPPA

Brown’s land of opportunity: University’s expansion is welcomed but is school...

Print Featured 02/17/2023

Olin Thompson’s Jewelry District walking tour begins at the corner of Richmond and Ship streets in Providence, on a plaza covered in stepped, wooden...

UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Bill Krarmer is the president of US Extruders Inc. in Westerly, which recently applied for an R.I. Commerce Corp. grant to work on recycling old fishing nets as plastic material for new products. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Starting over hasn’t curbed manufacturer’s desire to improve, innovate

Print Featured 02/17/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

Can Pryor achieve housing goals?

Print Featured 02/17/2023

The recent appointment of Stefan Pryor as the state’s housing secretary has some observers feeling confident that he can take the R.I. Office of...

SEEKING CLIENTS: Robert Wheeler, co-owner of Friends of Toto Inc., a dog day care and grooming business in Pawtucket, spent $400,000 to double his business space to accommodate growing customer demand but now he must find additional customers to cover the construction costs of expansion. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Preppin’ for RECESSION. PBN survey: Talk of a coming downturn is...

Print Featured 02/03/2023

If and when the country will slip into a recession depends on who you ask, but the gloom is already settling over Rhode Island...

Many ignore R.I.’s Airbnb registry, at least in Newport

Print Featured 02/03/2023

Compliance problems with a state registry of short-term vacation rentals are reigniting debate over the program that went into effect last year despite a...

HELP WANTED: R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, pictured speaking at a Rhode Island Kids Count event in January, has asked for assistance from the business community to improve Providence’s struggling schools.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Where are businesses in helping city schools?

Print Featured 02/03/2023

Not long after the Providence Public School District was taken over by the state in 2019 to turn around the state’s largest – and...

Meet the Makers: After 110 years, Goodwin-Bradley still perfecting a pattern...

Print Featured 01/20/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

ROUGH PATCH: Rhode Island College nursing student Mel “Rising Dawn” Cordeiro says some frustrating experiences after transferring from the Community College of Rhode Island sometimes left her questioning if it was worth the trouble. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

SCHOOL DAZE: RIC searches for identity amid severe enrollment drop

Print Featured 01/20/2023

Erik Christiansen didn’t know much about Rhode Island College when he agreed to take a job teaching history there in 2010. The Maryland native quickly...