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Behind the ad blitz to get R.I. lawmakers to reject bills...

A Washington D.C.-based nonprofit spent over $400,000 on ads in the final weeks of the 2025 Rhode Island legislative session to persuade state lawmakers...

PBN unveils 2025 Leaders & Achievers honorees

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has named 22 honorees for its 2025 Leaders & Achievers Awards program. The individuals chosen for this year’s program –...
STAY THE COURSE: Marcelo Mejía used to teach student drivers by using his personal car. That was before he launched Mejía’s Driving School LLC. Now the company owns several vehicles and has five instructors who are bilingual. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Entrepreneur finds himself in driver’s seat

(Editor’s note: This is the 59th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...

Costigan appointed CCRI’s new full-time president

CRANSTON – After two years leading the Community College of Rhode Island on an interim basis, Rosemary A. Costigan now has the president’s job...
SMOOTHER PATHWAY: Rosemary Costigan is the interim president of the Community College of Rhode Island, which is partnering with Rhode Island College on a fully online program that will provide students a smoother pathway to a Bachelor of ­Science in nursing degree.
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2 colleges join forces to clear path for nurses

When Patricia Kelling’s son was born with severe heart problems years ago, she struggled to understand what was wrong. “I didn’t know what the doctors...
FEELING COMFORTABLE: U.S. Navy veteran Lidell Booysen says the University of Rhode Island has eased his transition from the military. URI is one of six local colleges that have received the Military Friendly School designation. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

These local colleges prove to be ‘military friendly’

Lidell Booysen is a U.S. Navy veteran and a mechanical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island. The 25-year-old isn’t like most of...
ON THE LINKS: The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Summer Golf Classic on June 16 at the Rhode Island Country Club in Barrington. 
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Greater Providence Chamber to hold Summer Golf Classic

EDITOR’S CHOICE Greater Providence Chamber to hold Summer Golf Classic THE GREATER PROVIDENCE Chamber of Commerce will hold its 37th annual Golf Classic, hosted by...

CCRI partners with RIC to launch online RN to BSN program

PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College recently announced a fully online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in...

CCRI, United Way open 211 satellite office

WARWICK – United Way of Rhode Island Inc. has partnered with the Community College of Rhode Island for the nonprofit to open a 211...

9 LEAs receive $2M in state grants to support CTE programming

PROVIDENCE – Nine local education agencies will receive $2 million in total state grants to expand career and technical education programs at those schools. State...
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