Tag: Pandemic
PBN summit panel: ‘This virus is here to stay’
Fewer people are wearing masks these days, and the COVID-19 vaccination rates have plummeted. Even President Joe Biden has declared the pandemic over.
But health...
Businesses can do more for schools
Three years ago, R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green asked for more business support of Providence’s troubled public schools. The pitch was part of her...
Culture sustains success
Brittany Riley | The Haven Collection Inc. founder and CEO
If there is one thing we can take away from the past three years of growing...
RIPEC: R.I.’s K-12 education system is in crisis
PROVIDENCE – The K-12 education system in Rhode Island is in crisis.
That's the conclusion the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council made in its newly...
PBN survey: Businesses beat down but still fighting
The worst of the health-related ravages of the pandemic may be over nationally if you believe President Joe Biden. But the economic consequences continue...
State must do more to curb energy costs
The temptation to spend or commit all of $1.1 billion in long-term federal pandemic aid proved too great to resist for Gov. Daniel J....
Do you agree with President Joe Biden that the COVID-19 pandemic...
In a recent appearance on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Joe Biden controversially declared that, “ pandemic is over.”
He also acknowledged in the interview that...
WHO: COVID end ‘in sight,’ deaths at lowest since March 2020
GENEVA (AP) – The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest...
PBN unveils series on R.I. makers
Among Rhode Island’s more than 1,500 manufacturers, Jade Manufacturing Co. doesn’t stand out in the typical ways companies do.
It’s not the biggest employer, the...
City must make clearer goals, scope of reparations program
Proposed spending for Providence’s still-evolving racial reparations program includes several worthy suggestions. Among them, funding for homeownership, workforce training and support for small businesses.
The...
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