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HOT ITEM: José Nunez Pichardo pours a bucket of salsa into a container at the Plants to Food LLC manufacturing facility in Lincoln, one of the company’s most popular products.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Meet the Makers: Manufacturer helps companies turn plants into food

(Editor’s note: This is the 21st installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Erik G. Brine was named director of Middletown-based 401 Tech Bridge in December. He’s also a member of the Jamestown Town Council. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Understand your mission

Erik G. Brine | 401 Tech Bridge director After 26 years of national security experience, I’m excited to find myself at the intersection of...

Must R.I. give Citizens what it wants?

The 11th-hour budget amendment submitted by Gov. Daniel J. McKee asking to overhaul how Rhode Island-based banks are taxed had some questioning whether the...
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: Hilda Castillo, an engagement and outreach specialist for Advance Rhode Island Clinical and Translational Research, encourages members of the Latino community to participate in clinical trials by developing connections and trust. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Ensuring Latinos have a place in clinical trials

Hilda Castillo knocked on the door of a home day care in Providence several years ago and explained she was working on a clinical...
OPEN-­ENDED: Kristen Regine, right, a real estate agent and professor of marketing at Johnson & Wales University, holds an open house for a client in Richmond. Regine says changes to the broker commission system will have ripple effects on the real estate industry, but just what effects remains to be seen. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Settled lawsuits may have impact on house sales

It’s long been the case that when a homeowner in Rhode Island is ready to sell and hires a Realtor, it’s taken for granted...
GONE TOO FAR? Matthew H. Parker, a partner at Whelan Corrente & Flanders LLP in Providence, says while noncompete agreements have been overused, the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to ban most noncompetes was an administrative “overreach.”
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Noncompete pacts banned by FTC, but for how long?

The Federal Trade Commission may have banned most forms of noncompete agreements between employers and employees, but it’s unclear whether the ruling will survive...
GETTING A BRIEFING: Dana Evans, left, lab director at Gannon & Scott Inc. in Cranston, discusses business with Chris Jones, the company president. Gannon & Scott is one of the Rhode Island firms that have been honored by the federal government for its hiring of military veterans. Jones also served in the R.I. Army National Guard.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

These R.I. employers rallying the ex-troops

Gannon & Scott Inc. is a longtime Cranston-based company that specializes in recovering valuable metals from torpedo batteries, coatings used for stealth technology, and...
NO QUIT: Veteran Raymond Sienko makes Christmas ornaments in his Newport home in hopes of making it into a side venture with the help of the Veterans Affairs Providence Health Care Employment Resource Center. Only a small number of veterans who get assistance from the center seek to start a small business. 
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

For some veterans, venturing out is what they want to do

Three years ago, a woman selling ornaments at a kiosk in the Providence VA Medical Center caught Raymond Sienko’s attention while he was waiting...
ARROW’S UP: Household incomes in West Greenwich are rising faster than anywhere else in the state. Pictured is Town Administrator Kevin Breene. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Income gaps highlight stark differences in communities

In a state as small as Rhode Island, dramatic shifts and differences in wealth should be few and far between. But as this week’s cover...

Bank tax change good business for R.I.

The timing of Citizens Financial Group Inc.’s request to overhaul how banks are taxed could have been better. And threatening to consider moving some...
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