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TABLE TALK: Anika Kimble-Huntley, second from left, chief marketing officer at R.I. Commerce Corp., confers with her staff at the R.I. Commerce headquarters in Providence. The staff includes, from left, Mark Brodeur, director of international and domestic group sales; Lindsay Russell, deputy director of communications and stakeholder engagement; and Robin Erickson, domestic tourism and marketing operations director. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

ATTRACTION STRATEGY: R.I.’s chief tourism marketer setting plan to entice visitors...

Cover Story 03/17/2023

With the start of the peak tourism season approaching, Anika Kimble-Huntley is eyeing the billions of dollars that potential visitors to Rhode Island could...

MARQUEE SALE: The coastal estate known as Treasure Hill, located at 2 Kidds Way in Westerly, was the most expensive home sale in Rhode Island in 2022 at $17.7 million and one of only two of last year’s top 10 home sales to reach eight figures. COURTESY LILA  DELMAN COMPASS

JUST CHILLING: White-hot R.I. luxury market shows early sign of cooling...

Cover Story 03/03/2023

By most measures, 2022 was a banner year for Rhode Island’s luxury real estate market. A total of 617 homes sold for more than...

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...

Cover Story 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...

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...

Cover Story 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...

UNWELCOME FEELING: Erik Christiansen, Rhode Island College history professor and faculty union president, says the college has undergone changes in the last decade, not all for the better. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SCHOOL DAZE: RIC searches for identity amid severe enrollment drop

Cover Story 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...

RETURN TO THE ROSTRUM: Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio takes his place at the front of the Senate chambers on Jan. 3, the first day of the 2023 General Assembly session. It’s a position Ruggerio has held since 2017.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Surplus of question marks: Decisions on tax cuts, housing policies, education...

Cover Story 01/06/2023

No one would blame the General Assembly leadership if it breathed a little easier in the 2023 legislative session. After all, the top Democratic leaders...