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FOUNDING MEMBER: Esta Cohen, center, a founding member of the Dress for Success Providence board of directors, receives her 2019 Myra Kraft Community MVP Award. Pictured with Cohen are New England Patriots Foundation Executive Director of Community Affairs Andre Tippett, left, and New England Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft.
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Cohen named 2019 Myra Kraft Community MVP Award winner

ESTA COHEN, an East Greenwich resident who is a founding member of the Dress for Success Providence board of directors, was recently named among...

You can handle the truth!

Charles finally made partner and propped his feet on the desk in his new corner office. He was dreaming of all the perks that...

Crockett & Jones smart choice in footwear

Crockett & Jones, an extraordinary British shoe company, has cemented its name in the luxury market as one of the finest footwear companies in...
OPENING FOR HACKERS? The R.I. Board of Elections is studying whether modems added to voting machines in 2016 now represent a cybersecurity risk because they transmit encrypted data over the internet. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

As hackers advance, government, businesses must stay step ahead

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, technological upgrades can quickly become outdated. And no government or business can afford to think they are too...

Uncertainty on trade stalls growth

The trade war between the United States and China has been felt by most Rhode Island manufacturers, though not all in the same way. Many...

Americans feel down about a decent economy

In early 2017, a strange pattern began to appear. So-called soft economic numbers – surveys of business leaders and consumers – started to look...

State bans not enough to combat vaping

Tobacco. Heroin. Opiates. We didn’t know. Initially, we didn’t know that those substances would turn into addictions. The beauty turned into a beast. In...

Business Best-sellers

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models By Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann. Weinberg and McCann highlight multiple mental models to help decision-makers...
NEW ROLE: Womazetta Jones, left, who was nominated by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, right, as secretary of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services and began her new role in late July, said there’s an absolute necessity to better deliver services respectful of cultural and economic diversity.
 / COURTESY DAVID LEVESQUE

Five questions with Womazetta Jones

Womazetta Jones | Secretary, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services 1. You became Rhode Island’s chief of health and human services in late...
CAREER CHANGE: Sandra Cutting, right, franchise owner of H&R Block in South Kingstown, speaks with her daughter and client Caroline Walker. Cutting made a career change after having a child at age 30, got a master’s degree in accounting and started working at H&R Block. When the location came up for sale, she purchased it.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Franchisee: Sandra Cutting

Franchisee: Sandra Cutting H&R Block | 24 Salt Pond Road, Unit D5, South Kingstown The pitch: H&R Block offers professional help to individuals and business owners...
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