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TOUGH BALANCE: Elizabeth Bentley, a single mother who lives in a rented house in Jamestown with two of her children, says it’s been difficult balancing jobs as a server at two different restaurants and paying her rent on time. She normally has a third job in home health care but was told by her manager not to return due to a high risk of exposure to COVID-19 while working in restaurants. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

EVICTION DILEMMA: Both tenants, small landlords vulnerable as crisis...

Ilanna Ball isn’t exactly a real estate tycoon – she owns two triple-deckers, a few other multifamily houses and manages another 45 rental properties...

Election planning hampered by COVID-19

Several Rhode Island communities have been struggling to find poll workers for upcoming elections because many experienced workers have “retired” over worries about the...
TEAMWORK: Subsalve CEO Richard Heath, left, and Subsalve Chief Growth Officer Richard Fryburg, right, adjust an oxygen-treatment hood on Lombardi Undersea LLC owner Michael Lombardi. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Diver, R.I. firm create life-saving oxygen hood

Middletown-based diving contractor Michael Lombardi is used to solving challenges underwater, immersed in 500 feet of ocean water or a shallow sewer in places...
Gene M. Carlino

Carlino receives 2020 Rhode Island Bar Journal Lauren E. Jones, Esq....

GENE M. CARLINO was honored with the 2020 Rhode Island Bar Journal Lauren E. Jones, Esq. Writing Award. Carlino, a partner and estate, trust...

Tipped workers still feeling the pain

Even prior to COVID-19, tipped workers suffered from the inadequacies of the U.S. social safety net and minimum-wage standards. The pandemic has exposed not only...
Jack Martin

Library aiming to help build businesses

Providence Public Library was founded 145 years ago during a period that is now referred to as the Long Depression. Starting with the Panic...
Joan Retsinas

Grim U.S. stats we can do something about

COVID-19 has plunged us into the Age of Impotence. A government that once upon a time spearheaded the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after...
COLLABORATORS: Terry Thompson, left, extruder setup, and Mike Funderburk, master mechanic, team up to perform predictive maintenance on an extruder die at Cooley Group’s Pawtucket facility. / COURTESY COOLEY GROUP

Pandemic Diary: A respite from ongoing challenges

(Editor’s note: This is the 14th installment in a periodic series on how Cooley Group is managing the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of...
HEAVY DUTY: Melaku Gebermariam uses an electrostatic sprayer to disinfect the inside of a Delta Airlines jet between flights on July 22, at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. / AP FILE PHOTO/NATHAN ELLGREN

Air travel reshaped as carriers struggle with pandemic

In a bid to survive, airlines are desperately trying to convince a wary public that measures such as mandatory face masks and hospital-grade air...
FROM APRIL TO JULY, Rhode Island's creative industries lost 10,077 jobs and the loss in sales added up to more than $436 million, according to a new Brookings Institution report. / PBN FILE PHOTO

Brookings: R.I.’s arts sector lost over 10K jobs, $436M in sales...

PROVIDENCE – Arts and culture industries took a blow when the coronavirus pandemic hit America’s shores. In Rhode Island, home to the Creative Capital and where...
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