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FITNESS VETERAN: Jay Wagnon, area developer, and Lori Snietka, director of sales and operations, at Orangetheory Fitness in Cranston. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Franchisee: Jay Wagnon

The Pitch: Orangetheory Fitness is quite simply the best one-hour workout in the country – members see amazing results because our scientifically based workout...
Mark Correia, CEO of Preventure, began his career in corporate health and well-being right out of college. He joined Preventure in 2003, and today he focuses on its people and the workplace, much like the company does in its products and services. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Find success by putting people first

RIGHT out of college, I joined a fitness startup called Healthtrax. The culture there was driven by results and personal development. They invested in...

Wearing down sanctuary cities

Supporters of the sanctuary movement around the U.S. believe they have morality on their side. The deportation regime unleashed by President Donald Trump is...

Making good jobs a promise in R.I.

When I was a kid, 12 years of education – a high school degree – was enough to get a solid job with a...

Work-life balance

How often do you check email or do work from home outside of normal business hours? Daily 100% A few times per week 0% On occasion 0% Never...
RICHARD CULATTA, the chief innovation officer for Rhode Island, is leaving his position next month.

Innovate jobs, not funding

Richard Culatta’s decision to resign as Rhode Island’s first chief innovation officer gives the administration an opportunity to correct a mistake made the first...

No raise? It’s not you

The kind of company you work for makes a big difference to your chances of getting raises, new research has found. This adds to growing...
A FEDERAL judge on April 3 ordered R.I. Commerce Corp. to pay $50,000 to settle allegations it defrauded investors to fund the now-defunct video game company 38 Studios LLC, owned and run by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.

Federal judge approves 38 Studios settlement

PROVIDENCE – A federal judge on April 3 ordered R.I. Commerce Corp. to pay $50,000 to settle allegations it defrauded investors to fund the...

Elorza announces program for immigrant students

PROVIDENCE – For the past three weeks, 41 recently emigrated high school-aged students from countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central America have...
HANDS-ON: Anne-Marie Rosario Flores, owner of Anne the Plumber in Woonsocket, works in the basement of a house on Penn Street in Providence with her nephew, Jarrett Flores, an apprentice plumber. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Unafraid of bias, Anne the Plumber cleaning up

There was the iconic Rosie the Riveter, a fictional woman munitions worker of World War II. Then came Lillian Baumbach, recognized in the 1950s...
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