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Print Edition 08/07/2026

Total number of local employees: 23,407 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by MESJ Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top...

IN GOOD COMPANY: The R.I. Commerce Corp. board meets at Cumberland-based baby product company Baby Delight Inc. in June for a strategic retreat to discuss economic and workforce trends. Gov. Daniel J. McKee, third from the left, leads the meeting.  COURTESY R.I. COMMERCE CORP.

ELECTION26: Gubernatorial race puts performance of R.I. Commerce in spotlight

Print Edition 07/31/2026

On the top floor of the Wexford Science & Technology building overlooking Providence’s I-195 District, Gov. Daniel J. McKee stood before business executives and...

CLEAN TEAM: Roger Williams Park Zoo has a new plan to prevent stormwater runoff from contaminating the park’s 100 acres of lakes. Contributors to the project included, from left, Molly Welsh of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Lou Perrotti, director of conservation programs for the zoo; and Brian Kuchar, Horsley Witten Group principal landscape architect who is leading the project. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Horsley Witten completes plan to address stormwater runoff at RWP Zoo 

Print Edition 07/31/2026

Positioned along the border of Providence and Cranston sits the nation’s third-oldest zoo. Opened in 1872, the Roger Williams Park Zoo has undergone many expansion...

Edmund ‘Ted’ Shallcross III / COURTESY AMICA MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

Five Questions With: Edmund “Ted” Shallcross III

Print Edition 07/31/2026

Edmund ‘Ted’ Shallcross III Chairman, CEO and president, Amica Mutual Insurance Co. 1. You’ve stepped into the dual role of CEO and board chair. How...

R.I. PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY CEO Christopher Durand stands in a field next to the Providence train station, one of two parcels being considered for a new central transit hub. PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Providence transit hub process getting attention from candidates

Print Edition 07/31/2026

For more than a decade, plans to move the R.I. Public Transit Authority’s central bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza in Providence have cycled...

FULL HOUSE: Gov. Daniel J. McKee, third from the left, leads a June meeting of the R.I. Commerce Corp. board, whose 12 members are appointed by the governor.  COURTESY R.I. COMMERCE CORP.

Give business leaders more say on economic development

Print Edition 07/31/2026

Every gubernatorial election year seems to be a referendum on the state’s economic-development policy and the agency primarily responsible for carrying it out, R.I....

R.I. has everything needed to make great sales pitch

Print Edition 07/31/2026

We are all both proud of our state and sometimes critical of various sectors that can be improved. I have long been somewhere between...

Tom Bastianelli founded Warwick-based Signal Solutions in 2016. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Hire problem-solvers

Print Edition 07/31/2026

Tom Bastianelli | Signal Solutions founder, lead engineer When I founded Signal Solutions, I was the entire company. Today, my business partner Matt Vincent and...

TAKING SHAPE: internationally recognized architect Julian Bonder has worked with the Newport Middle Passage Port Marker Project to refine the design of a memorial between Thames Street and America’s Cup Avenue.  COURTESY NEWPORT MIDDLE PASSAGE PORT MARKER PROJECT

Newport’s slave trade memorial taking years to become reality

Print Edition 07/31/2026

Nearly a decade after the idea was first proposed, Newport’s Middle Passage Memorial is moving closer to becoming reality. But for those behind the...