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A SIMPLER SYSTEM? Attorney Zachary Stolz, a law partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Ltd. 
who works on veterans affairs, is hopeful that the Dole Act, signed into law in January, will streamline the disability benefit process. 
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Veteran benefits, including in workplace, boosted under the wide-ranging Dole Act

In 20-plus years representing thousands of clients who are military veterans, Zachary Stolz, a law partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Ltd., has seen...
Victoria Cimino / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Five Questions With: Victoria Cimino

Victoria Cimino | CEO and president, Discover Newport 1. As the new CEO and president of Newport’s tourism bureau, what is your strategic vision...

R.I. manufacturers bracing for pain

As fluctuating tariff orders implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration continue to rattle the global economy, manufacturers in Rhode Island are bracing for higher...
BIG BOOST: Kristin Costa runs her small business, Pinch of Fancy LLC, with the help of culinary business incubator Hope & Main in Warren, but she started in her own kitchen and was helped by Rhode Island relaxing laws against homemade food businesses in 2022. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Cottage food industry booming after state relaxes homemade food sale laws

The cottage food industry in Rhode Island is booming. What were once side hustles – selling homemade food items made out of one’s own...
DEEP THERAPY: Float Rhode Island co-owners Lindy Fregeolle and Scott Mitchell with one of their float therapy pods, in which a person floats in a heated mixture of water and Epsom salts, which reduces or eliminates the senses so the mind and body can slow down and relax. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Warwick wellness studio specializes in float therapy

After just 15 minutes into his first session of float therapy, Scott Mitchell fell into a deep meditation. Mitchell, who was looking for a way...

Does primary care plan have a shot at solving crisis?

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s new multipronged plan to shore up the state’s sinking primary care system has some in the industry questioning whether it...

Legislation would restrict ‘spread pricing’ on meds

While prescription drug costs have been steadily increasing, the reimbursements paid to the pharmacies have been decreasing. The math isn’t adding up. But this contradiction is...
PLANT PROGNOSIS: Keiddy Urrea-Morawicki, director of the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, works in the lab.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

URI lab is a real (plant) lifesaver for farms, landscapers

Roots Farm co-owner Kelli Roberts’ Asian greens were wilting and she wasn’t sure what was causing the problem, so she contacted the Plant Diagnostic...
HEAVY METAL: Gregory Mercurio, senior vice president of radiation oncology for American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island, stands in front of a cyclotron, which generates particles that create the protons used in proton beam radiation therapy for cancer patients. The cyclotron must be surrounded by a vault, which together weigh 230,000 pounds.
COURTESY GREGORY MERCURIO

Proton radiation therapy center expects to boost cancer care in Rhode...

Dr. David Wazer has sent hundreds of cancer patients to Boston because the treatment they needed didn’t exist in Rhode Island. Brown University Health, where...
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