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It’s beneficial to talk with your hands

Advice 12/19/2025

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as clearer, competent and persuasive. That’s the key finding from...

ON THE MARK: Richard Grundy, CEO and president of AVTECH Software Inc., indicates the level of floodwater at Cutler Mill in Warren, where AVTECH’s offices are located.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A SLOW RETREAT: Voluntary buyouts, relocations part of Warren’s pioneering climate...

Cover Story 08/01/2025

When Richard Grundy moved AVTECH Software Inc. from Newport to Warren 15 years ago, the renovated Cutler Mill seemed to offer the ideal flexibility...

FOR GOOD MEASURE: Machinist Dennis Sullivan checks his calculation on an order of spur gears Tracey Gear has just made for a food processing company.  PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

THE DAILY GRIND: Family-owned Tracey Gear machines parts for clients ranging...

Cover Story 07/21/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the 11th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

BROWN UNIVERSITY is one of 25 colleges that filed Oct. 30 an amicus brief in U.S. District Court in California asking the court to block the federal government from implementing new rules that would restrict H-1B visa eligibility. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown joins legal brief to block new federal visa rules

Education 11/03/2020

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-five colleges, including Brown University, filed an amicus brief in U.S. District Court in California on Oct. 30 asking the court to...