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New life for Superman?

It's no mystery that one of the prime reasons why Providence is hailed as a beautiful city is because our history is preserved. While...

For generations

Which generation makes up the majority of your company's workforce? Greatest generation/silent generation (born 1930-1940) – 0% Baby boomers (born 1946-1964) ...

Innovation is its own reward, now R.I. needs to get...

Define competitive advantage for a business and if innovation is not the first word, it should be. In a similar way, cities, regions and...

New Providence transit plan is a good one

The recent announcement that Providence and the R.I. Public Transit Authority have backed away from plans to build a streetcar and instead create an...
Ellen Ford is a homegrown Rhode Island success story. A Newport native, she graduated from the University of Rhode Island and advanced from teller to the top job at Middletown-based People's Credit Union. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

A foundation of trust

People do business with people – not with companies. That is why relationships built on a foundation of trust are so important. Everything starts...

Millennial generation squeezed

Did rich countries like the U.S. betray the millennial generation – the people born in the 1980s through the early 2000s? Some make that...

What U.S. offers the world

When it comes to stuff, the U.S. buys a lot more from the rest of the world than the rest of the world buys...

Growing organics? FSA can help

The strength of the rural economy rests upon growing, making and creating products that people want to eat, buy and use. Over the past...

Part of the community

Are you a resident in the same state as your workplace? Yes – 85.7% No – 14.3% Do you...
OVERHAUL NEEDED? City licensing board members, from left, Chairman Juan M. Pichardo, Luis Peralta and Johanna Harris, review photos at a recent hearing. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Time to rebuild public confidence in embattled city licensing board

One year ago this month former House Speaker Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty to bribery for accepting money to ensure a liquor-license application was...
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