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Operating in the new normal

Coronavirus
Will your company need to continue adapting as the COVID-19 pandemic and markets evolve? Yes: 93% No: 7% What is your company doing or considering doing to...
BUSY SESSION: From left, House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello, Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio and Gov. Gina M. Raimondo must work together to tackle a host of issues in the upcoming legislative session, including a structural budget deficit, the state lottery contract, the minimum wage and marijuana legalization and regulation. / PBN PHOTO AND FILE PHOTOS/MICHAEL SALERNO

How should legislative leaders prioritize state spending for fiscal 2021, given...

Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the state economy, shutting down or limiting the operations of thousands of businesses and forcing...
FRONT LINES: Health workers type on laptops inside a COVID-19 patient tent set up outside the emergency department at Rhode Island Hospital in ­Providence. / COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP.

State must keep public updated on COVID-19 death projections

Coronavirus
Do we really need to see more shifting projections of potential death tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic? The answer, sadly in Rhode Island’s case,...

A summer to remember or forget on Block Island?

Editorial and Op-Ed
Empty streets and boarded up businesses are common sights on Block Island during the cold winter months. That’s when the 1,000 year-round residents have...
THUMBS UP: Cooley extruder operator Jerome Wilson displays his protective mask during a production run of the manufacturer’s water-containment material. / COURTESY COOLEY GROUP

Pandemic Diary: Perseverance, agility… and a bit of whiplash

Advice
(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a weekly series on how Cooley Group is managing the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of...
EMPTY CAMPUS: The Memorial Union at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown is pictured in the background. URI Provost Daniel DeHayes says the university is expected to issue $8 million in refunds on room and board and had to spend $1 million to transition about 1,800 classes online due to the ­COVID-19 pandemic. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With pandemic losses mounting, local colleges face biggest test

Coronavirus
Rhode Island-based colleges are already feeling the financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the cancellation of usually profitable events and the loss of...
SOCIAL DISTANCING: Daniel Dwight, CEO and president of Pawtucket-based Cooley Group, shows how employees practice social distance inside the Cooley plant. / COURTESY COOLEY GROUP

Pandemic Diary: Seeking silver linings

Advice
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a weekly series on how Cooley Group is managing the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of...
CRUCIAL ­RESOURCE: Local news outlets such as Providence Business News are among the “essential workers” businesses and communities rely on, especially in times of crisis.

Endangered local news outlets fill essential community role

Coronavirus
“Local news is in a state of crisis that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote a group of 19 mostly Democratic...
GROWING ­CONCERN: Crisis phone screeners Alechi Wali, left, and Lydia Villafana take calls at the state-run BH Link call center in East Providence. The center, which fields calls from people experiencing a mental health or behavioral health need, has seen calls related to the COVID-19 pandemic increase in recent weeks. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Pandemic raises workload for mental health agencies

Coronavirus
During the first week of March at the BH Link call center in East Providence, about 3.5% of the roughly 40 calls that came...
CRUCIAL ­RESOURCE: Local news outlets such as Providence Business News are among the “essential workers” businesses and communities rely on, especially in times of crisis.

Are government sources and news outlets keeping you as informed as...

Coronavirus
There is no shortage of information sources today but sorting through the crush of news and commentary for what matters most to local communities...
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