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GIVING VOICE: 
Dr. Fatima Mirza works in an examination room at Rhode Island Hospital. Mirza and her husband, Dr. Rohaid Ali, worked on two significant projects recently involving artificial intelligence, one of which used OpenAI’s Voice Engine to create a clone of the voice of a young patient who lost her voice after surgery to remove a brain tumor. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A higher health care intelligence? In R.I., some believe it’s the...

Like many these days, Severence MacLaughlin foresees a big, bright future for artificial intelligence. Unlike many, the Rhode Island-based data scientist was willing to quit...
THE WARMUP: A legislative study commission on climate change meets in December at the Statehouse, weeks before the full General Assembly convenes to start the 2025 legislative session. Testifying are Thomas Guthlein, left, R.I. Emergency Management Agency associate director; and Melinda Hopkins, the agency’s planning branch chief. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

FALLING SHORT: Projected $330M deficit has General Assembly prepping for belt-tightening

For Rhode Island legislators, what’s old is new again. After three years of surpluses, state budget officials are now projecting that the government is facing...
Anika Kimble-Huntley, / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘All that’ and a giant quahog: Tourism chief takes R.I.’s effort...

Anika Kimble-Huntley has learned that being the state’s chief tourism marketer involves certain responsibilities that go beyond the published job description. She took the R.I....
David N. Cicilline / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SETTING A NEW COURSE: 5-year action plan to determine how R.I....

When David N. Cicilline became the Rhode Island Foundation’s new chief executive and president in May 2023, he and the rest of the nonprofit’s...

HYBRID HARMONY: In-office? Remote? Some firms still working on the right...

Working from home was not cutting it for the two dozen or so employees at Corrigan Financial Inc. in Middletown. It’s not that the work...
SETTING THE TABLE: Patrons at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort play a hand of blackjack. Bally’s Chairman Soohyung “Soo” Kim says he has no plans to abandon the company’s roots in Rhode Island when his hedge fund, Standard General LP, takes ownership. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HIGH-STAKES TAKEOVERS: Hedge fund, private equity firm ante up at R.I.’s...

When Sen. Frank A. Ciccone got wind in July that Bally’s Corp.’s board of directors had accepted a $4.5 billion buyout offer from the...
IN PROGRESS: The nonprofit SWAP Inc. (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) is building this two-family house at Burnside and Arnold streets in East Providence to sell to a family that meets income limits. Supporters of Question 3 on the ballot say similar affordable housing programs will be funded with a $120 million bond issue. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

BUILDING BONDS: New housing, higher ed facilities top $343M in bond...

In Rhode Island, $107,452 won’t get residents very far in the housing market. That figure – the state’s median household income – doesn’t support an...
QUESTION 1 on Rhode Island's statewide ballot is asking voters whether a constitutional convention should be convened to consider amendments to the state constitution. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Constitutional convention? Clashing views

Rhode Island’s first statewide ballot question is an outlier in more than one way, observers say. When Rhode Islanders vote in the general election, Question...
LASTING MARK: ­Providence Place has changed significantly, but the urban mall has continued to play an important role in Providence over the 25 years since it opened with the promise of propelling the city's renaissance. 
PBN PHOTO/­WILLIAM HAMILTON

Casting a MALL PALL: Despite uncertain future, Providence Place remains key...

Decades ago, city and state leaders eagerly jumped on a cross-country flight to secure Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom Inc. as an anchor tenant for Providence...

PBN SURVEY: Economy, election putting business on edge

Rhode Islanders aren’t throwing parties like they used to just a year ago. At least, that’s the way Ines Gentile sees it. Gentile is a...
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