For rural towns, planned protection
If you like bucolic scenes, a visit to Exeter yields the requisite stone walls, hard woods, split rail fences and characters not afraid to...
Real life need drives education innovation
A modest new educational/training program in Providence shows how it is possible to address work force needs using creativity and careful planning – and...
Who are the team players in your workplace?
Providence Business News asks 70 local business executives about what it takes to be a “team player” – and whether it matters.
Do you...
Financial services jobs help reverse R.I.’s brain drain
According to the 2006 American Community Survey, Rhode Island is home to one of the highest per capita concentrations of college students in the...
Find a more equitable way to tax Rhode Islanders
H.L. Mencken, an observer of American culture in the early half of the 20th century, said, “For every problem, there is a solution that...
Young blood: College graduates in the workplace
Providence Business News asks 70 local business executives about the criteria for, expectations of and opportunities available to their entry-level employees.
What...
Working waterfront should remain so
Plans to re-develop the Providence waterfront for commercial and residential use would require zoning changes that eventually would lead to the displacement of century-old...
If you mean business, be open and efficient
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis and the R.I. Economic Development Corporation’s Every Company Counts program have, laudably, begun a new effort to make...
CCRI can train young workers for successful careers
While the merger of Lifespan and Care New England may result in new jobs that could bring prosperity to the residents of South Providence,...
Health literacy challenge met, slowly, by R.I. project
Perhaps you’ve heard the story about the 66-year-old Pennsylvania woman who, whenever she visited her doctor’s office, would tell the office assistant that she’d...
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