Robots will eliminate jobs but create new ones too
Unions are understandably worried about job losses that will come as manufacturers turn to technology to curb costs and improve production and efficiency.
There’s no...
Public owed answers on bridge fiasco
It sounded good when Gov. Daniel J. McKee promised in March a “day of reckoning” for those responsible for the Washington Bridge’s rickety condition...
Uneven rise in home prices shows housing inequities
It’s no secret that home prices have been rising ever higher across housing-starved Rhode Island.
But a PBN analysis of median single-family home sales shows...
Has Raimondo forgotten her home state?
For the second time in an election year, Rhode Islanders’ hopes of benefiting from having a former governor in charge of the U.S. commerce...
State must help accelerate new nursing home models
State leaders have begun to respond to the pleas for help from struggling nursing homes, but the money will only buy time for an...
Pot shops need trained workforce
For any industry to grow, it needs a workforce pipeline.
So it is with the state’s budding cannabis industry. Last year it employed more than...
Cannabis shops have incentive to fit in
Retail cannabis shops will be appearing in more Providence neighborhoods, whether businesses already there want them or not.
That doesn’t mean businesses and others opposed...
State needs Rhode Island Ready industrial sites
Voters in 2021 narrowly approved a $40 million initiative to prepare for development Rhode Island’s limited supply of industrial-use property.
The Rhode Island Ready program...
Income gaps highlight stark differences in communities
In a state as small as Rhode Island, dramatic shifts and differences in wealth should be few and far between.
But as this week’s cover...
Bank tax change good business for R.I.
The timing of Citizens Financial Group Inc.’s request to overhaul how banks are taxed could have been better. And threatening to consider moving some...
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