Tag: Laurie White
R.I. businesses offered SBA help to get through coronavirus epidemic
Mark S. Hayward was in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001.
With the metro shut down following the devastating terrorist attacks in New York City...
Coronavirus raises workplace issues
Fears of a coronavirus pandemic are growing by the day, but employers looking to limit the chances of an outbreak in their workplaces could...
Budget deficit, lottery contract, minimum wage among controversial issues facing General...
As Rhode Island lawmakers return for the 2020 legislative session on Jan. 7, some of the most pressing questions they’re expected to face this...
White, Machtley top honorees at PBN’s 2019 Business Excellence Awards
WARWICK – Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce President Laurie White and Bryant University President Ronald K. Machtley were the top honorees at Providence Business...
Under Laurie White’s guidance, Providence Chamber on right path
2019 PBN Business Excellence Awards
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: Laurie White, President, Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce
Consistent, forward-thinking, strategically targeted planning, followed by action.
Those qualities...
Publisher’s letter
Successful companies tend to share common traits, including strong leadership, committed employees and strong services and products.
But keeping the success going, year after year,...
White, Machtley lead honorees in 2019 PBN Business Excellence Awards
PROVIDENCE – Laurie White, longtime president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, is being honored for Business Leadership in Providence Business News’ 19th...
Fed Chairman to speak at Greater Providence Chamber’s annual meeting
PROVIDENCE - This fall’s annual meeting of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce is expected to feature one of the world's heavy hitters in...
‘We’re not going to stop [legal pot]’
Amid the rolling fields and wooded hills outside Worcester, Mass., people park their cars in a dirt lot then take a shuttle bus to...
Ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opens Higgins Welcome Center on URI main campus
SOUTH KINGSTOWN - The new Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center on the University of Rhode Island's South Kingstown campus was officially opened in a...









![‘We’re not going to stop [legal pot]’ DRUG TESTING: Craig Pickell is the president and CEO of Bullard, which makes custom grinders and abrasives. Manufacturers such as Pickell, who also serves as chairman of the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association, are concerned about the worker-safety issues and employer rights regarding drug testing if recreational marijuana use is legalized.
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