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Baker administration estimates vaping ban costing stores up to $8M in...

PROVIDENCE – A three-month ban on retail nicotine and marijuana vaping products in Massachusetts has the potential to cost private businesses $7 million to...
SNEAKER SOIREE: Jacklyn O’Hara of Girls on the Run Rhode Island and her husband, Colin, pose for a photo at last year’s Girls on the Run Rhode Island Sneaker Soiree. This year’s soiree will be held on Nov. 8 at Skyline at Waterplace in Providence.
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Editor’s Choice: Girls on the Run R.I. to hold Sneaker Soiree

EDITOR’S CHOICE Girls on the Run R.I. to hold Sneaker Soiree GIRLS ON THE RUN Rhode Island will hold its third annual Sneaker Soiree...

Lists: Chief Financial Officers

Total revenue, including on just-missed list: $387.3 billion Just missed the list 1. Blount Fine Foods Corp. | Revenue: $360.8 mil. 2. Collette Travel Services Inc. |...

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Do you closely follow the news on a regular basis? Yes: 88.9% Sometimes: 11.1% No: 0% Where do you primarily get your news from? Television: 33.4% Newspapers/magazines: 22.2% Online outlets: 22.2% Radio:...
NEW DEVELOPMENT: The home pictured here is part of The Oaks housing development in Coventry, one of the largest residential subdivisions under active construction in Rhode Island. The development will have 105 houses when complete.
 / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Lack of new, affordable R.I. homes a growing problem

Richard Marcello, a homebuilder of 34 years, remembers when many new houses were under construction across Rhode Island. He started building homes with his...
After a long career as a banking executive and four years at Brown University as chief development officer, Neil D. Steinberg joined the Rhode Island Foundation in 2008. He has served as CEO and president of the public charity ever since, leading a host of initiatives in education and health affecting communities across the state.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

We can all be civic leaders

Neil D. Steinberg | Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president Leadership is not an executive title. Leaders do not have to be anointed, trained or...
READY TO SERVE: Christina and Ken Procaccianti stand at the soda counter inside Green Line Apothecary in Providence, a throwback to independent pharmacies of an earlier era. 
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Green Line Apothecary offers dose of nostalgia

THE MOST UNUSUAL THING about Green Line Apothecary LLC isn’t its vintage soda fountain, complete with non-medicinal beverages, such as lime rickeys that recall...
GROOVY EXTERIOR: The exterior of the Public Projects area is newly clad in corrugated steel. The material that was removed was used on the interior. /  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Refurbishment brings added capacity, year-round operability to The Steel Yard

The Steel Yard | 27 Sims Ave., Providence Architect: Kite Architects Inc. Developer/General contractor: TRAC Builders Inc. Total project cost: $2.8 million Use: The Steel Yard, an industrial...
HANDS-ON TRAINING: Jill Sypole, second from left, Building Futures health initiatives manager, and Andrew Cortés, third from left, the group’s executive director, stage a training event in Providence on how to administer Narcan to someone who has overdosed.
 / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Hammer, nails… Narcan: Construction training aims to ease opioid crisis

As an industry, construction has been beset by the national opioid epidemic. In Rhode Island, a report by public-health officials found that about 20%...

Union gets toehold in R.I.’s marijuana industry

THE NASCENT CANNABIS INDUSTRY in Rhode Island is expanding quickly and attracting the attention of a national union best known for organizing supermarket workers. The...
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