Health care bond use grows nationally, but uncertainty looms for R.I....
As health systems’ balance sheets and labor forces are stabilizing, the health care bond market has rebounded. But uncertainty still reigns for Rhode Island...
Exit signs: How can business owners assess their readiness for transition?
Only 30% of business owners looking to sell find a buyer for their company, and only 10% get what they want.
Interestingly, roughly the same...
4 common sense measures to help R.I. businesses
From stunning coastlines to a world-class culinary scene, the Ocean State has so much to offer everyone who visits and lives here. Unfortunately, our...
States act to reverse CPA shortage. Will R.I.?
Accounting firms have long felt the crunch, and it’s getting worse.
A growing shortage of certified public accountants is pushing the profession to its limits,...
Credit card legislation has banks up in arms
A legislative move to increase competition in the credit card payment network – dominated by Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. – is facing severe...
R.I. public defenders get helping hand, but still understaffed
The workload has gotten easier for the attorneys in the R.I. Office of the Public Defender, but it’s still not case closed when it...
‘Pirate’ fishing vessels a target of federal bill
Fred Mattera, president of the South Kingstown-based Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, can recall when foreign commercial fishing vessels could often be spotted off the...
These local colleges prove to be ‘military friendly’
Lidell Booysen is a U.S. Navy veteran and a mechanical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island. The 25-year-old isn’t like most of...
Veteran benefits, including in workplace, boosted under the wide-ranging Dole Act
In 20-plus years representing thousands of clients who are military veterans, Zachary Stolz, a law partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Ltd., has seen...
Cottage food industry booming after state relaxes homemade food sale laws
The cottage food industry in Rhode Island is booming. What were once side hustles – selling homemade food items made out of one’s own...