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Edmund ‘Ted’ Shallcross III / COURTESY AMICA MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

Five Questions With: Edmund “Ted” Shallcross III

Edmund ‘Ted’ Shallcross III Chairman, CEO and president, Amica Mutual Insurance Co. 1. You’ve stepped into the dual role of CEO and board chair. How...
R.I. PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY CEO Christopher Durand stands in a field next to the Providence train station, one of two parcels being considered for a new central transit hub. PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Providence transit hub process getting attention from candidates

For more than a decade, plans to move the R.I. Public Transit Authority’s central bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza in Providence have cycled...

Lists: Highway Projects in Rhode Island

Total project cost: $1.7 billion SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by MESJ Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists,...

Lists: Cannabis Dispensaries

Total retail sales from January 2025 to February 2026: $136.6 million SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by MESJ Associates. For information...
HOUSE SPEAKER CHRISTOPHER R. BLAZEJEWSKI says the guidelines for the new inspector general's office have been set up so the it doesn't violate the state's separation of powers requirements. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

R.I.’s inspector general taking shape, with limitations

Just over a month after Gov. Daniel J. McKee signed the fiscal 2027 budget creating Rhode Island’s first Office of Inspector General, government and...
POOL PARTY: Rubber duckies are dropped into the test tank at the University of Rhode Island’s new Ocean Robotics Laboratory at an underwater ribbon cutting in June. 
COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND/MICHAEL SALERNO

URI’s ocean robotics hub feeds wave of innovation

Inside a large test tank at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus, a remotely operated vehicle recently sliced through a floating ribbon...
MORE OF THE SAME: Walkers heading south on the Newport Cliff Walk in 2023 are stopped at Narragansett Avenue by fencing because part of the historic walk collapsed in 2022. Little has changed since then.
PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Money isn’t only thing slowing Cliff Walk repairs

For generations, Newport’s city officials have had to strike a perilous balance between the public value of one of Rhode Island’s most recognizable tourist...

Lists: Colleges & Universities

Total full-time students: 71,332 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or...

Lists: Engineering Firms

Total licensed and non-licensed engineers: 564 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top...
ROUGH SHAPE: An empty restaurant on West Main Road in Middletown – located across the street from the planned  Middletown Center development – has been unoccupied and boarded up for more than a decade. 
PBN PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

Prime Middletown property remains stuck in limbo

The Jan Cos., operating under Renaissance Development Corp., professes a commitment to “long-term stewardship,” asserting on its website, “We believe in investing for generations,...
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