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TOP SALE: The $30 million sale of Clarendon Court, a 7-acre seaside estate located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, in early September 2021 is the highest price ever paid for a home in Rhode Island. / COURTESY MIKE OSEAN

MANSION MANIA: Newport ‘cottages’ set sales records in 2021, but what’s...

Print Featured 03/04/2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Rhode Island in April 2020, John Hodnett worried about not only the health crisis but the effect...

DEMANDING JOB: Stephen Tetzner, founder and managing partner of Homestar Mortgage Inc., says 2021 was the busiest of his 46 years in the mortgage industry. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Will higher interest rates cool the housing market?

Print Featured 03/04/2022

What goes down, must come up. That will apply to mortgage rates, which have begun to climb after hitting historic lows in 2021 and are...

HURTIN’ FOR HELP: PBN survey shows tight labor market among challenges...

Print Featured 02/18/2022

Money can’t buy everything, including talented workers. At least that’s what Rhode Island companies are learning as business activity rebounds, but finding people to fill...

A SPOT ON THE BENCH: William J. Trezvant was one of two people of color sworn in as state judges in January, but some argue Rhode Island hasn’t done nearly enough to diversify the judiciary. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Jury still out on effort to diversify R.I. judiciary

Print Featured 02/18/2022

William J. Trezvant grew up surrounded by Black lawyers and judges, thanks to his dad’s leadership of the Newport chapter of the NAACP. Those early...

FOCAL POINT: Warwick Mayor Frank J. Picozzi stands on Conimicut Point with the Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse in the background. Picozzi wants to use some of the city’s federal COVID-19 relief funds to renovate the historic beacon. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Ready to spend: R.I. cities, towns have differing ideas about how...

Print Featured 02/04/2022

The historic Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse at the mouth of the Providence River is far from being the shining beacon it once was, but Warwick...

SPECIAL DESIGNATION: Jodi Glass, an audiologist and trustee of Aldersbridge Communities, which operates assisted living facilities in Rhode Island, says the organization’s sites have been certified LGBTQ Safe Zones since 2019. Part of the requirements are gender-neutral bathrooms. / PBN PHOTO/MICHEAL SALERNO

More health care settings become LGBTQ Safe Zones

Print Featured 02/04/2022

Imagine moving into a nursing home, after living proudly for years as an openly gay, lesbian or transgender person, only to be forced back...

REACHING OUT: Bryant University President Ross Gittell says since three-fourths of the school’s students come from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, Bryant is increasing its efforts to enhance knowledge about the university beyond the New England region. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Gittell leads Bryant with an economist’s eye

Print Featured 01/21/2022

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.) Bryant University President...