McKee must be in step with public on bridge review
After some early missteps, the McKee administration’s response to the Dec. 11 Washington Bridge closing has improved.
The administration was clearly caught off-guard by the...
Spreading DEI should be team effort
Bringing significant change to the workplace is always challenging, especially when it involves employee attitudes and thinking.
So, despite the many gains companies report in...
‘She-cession’ over but gains in jeopardy
The troubling national exodus of women from the workforce in 2020 and 2021 has ended, at least in Rhode Island. That is certainly good...
Home rental storm is brewing
Legislative commission meetings held when the General Assembly is not in session are usually snoozers.
But a special commission studying the state’s short-term rental industry...
Is Rhode Island ready to be more friendly to business?
With a former small-businessman in the governor’s office, the state has a chance to finally shed its long-standing image as a place that’s too...
State must link local tourism campaigns
After months of teasing an impending unveiling of a new statewide tourism campaign and tagline, R.I. Commerce Corp. has hired an Ohio-based firm to...
Cleaner bay can help boost the state’s blue economy
The state says Narragansett Bay is the cleanest it has been in 150 years. For those who live around the bay and enjoy it...
Workforce challenges in health care
One of the biggest takeaways from PBN’s recent Fall Health Care Summit is that providers are still struggling to deal with a shortage of...
AI world requires new policies, plans
If the experts on artificial intelligence are to be believed, a tectonic shift has already begun in the business world akin to the Industrial...
R.I. banks still see branches as best path to expansion
Digital banking may one day make brick-and-mortar banks hard to find, but don’t expect that anytime soon in Rhode Island.
The number of bank branches...
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