An interview with Gordon Shearer, president and CEO of Hess LNG, which wants to construct an offshore LNG terminal in Mount Hope Bay. more

Despite what you’d think, RE/MAX President Walter J. Schneider maintains he’s anything but worried about the real estate market. more

An interview with the Rev. Brian J. Shanley, who was recently appointed to a second five-year term as Providence College’s president. more

Designer Arti Mehta and her husband, Shekhar, recently opened a Pawtucket store, Artee Fabrics & Home, as they expand their business. more

Tina Dolen heads the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission, which will help decide how to use the 260 acres the U.S. Navy is giving up. more

STAC Executive Director Christine Smith says it is important for Rhode Island to continue to fund science and technology research. more

The well-known former newspaper and TV reporter Jim Hummel is now doing weekly video investigations that run online. more

In an interview, R.I. Realtors President Karl Martone said the state’s real estate market is gradually improving. more

Frank Maher, director of major gifts at Trinity Rep, is leading an effort to create a gay chamber of commerce, of sorts, in Rhode Island. more

Teny O. Gross has been executive director of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence since shortly after its inception in 2000, following the murder of 15-year-old homicide witness Jennifer Rivera in Providence. The institute started with one part-time employee and now has 33 workers. Although Gross believes in providing opportunities for the underserved, he is as strong a believer in the responsibility of each individual to work toward personal improvement. Gross recently spoke with Providence Business News about the institute’s work and how it intersects with the business community. more

Dr. Leonard Mermel, medical director of infectious control at Rhode Island Hospital, said the H1N1 flu virus has demonstrated the health care system’s strengths and weaknesses and offered a chance to learn a great deal. more

In November, President Barack Obama appointed Rhode Island resident Curt Spalding as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Agency Region 1. Spalding oversees EPA programs in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. more

Ioanna Morfessis has been acting director of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation for a short time, but already she has got people’s attention. Maybe not in the way she had hoped, however: The fact that Morfessis will be paid $250,000 annually, more than double what her predecessor earned, has raised eyebrows. Now she has to justify the salary. 27 more

The Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) has become an increasingly important resource for many businesses struggling to obtain capital. President Bob Baker recently spoke with Providence Business News about the association’s mission and the economic climate in the region. more

Judith Swift has held a lifelong passion to advance the general understanding of science. A professor at the University of Rhode Island for almost 40 years, Swift was appointed director of the university’s Coastal Institute last summer. more

Harvey Waxman was a retired dentist living quietly in North Kingstown when a few years ago he received a tax bill from the town that shocked him. It said his property tax had doubled following a town-wide revaluation. That led to Waxman’s second career as an activist. more

Deborah Obalil, a local marketing consultant who works with arts businesses and nonprofits, spoke with Providence Business News about the state of the arts in Providence and how arts organizations are coping with the recession. more

Jonathan “Jay” Healy is the state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture office that covers Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He spoke with Providence Business News about some of the lesser-known initiatives at USDA and the farming sector in general. more

Tom Sgouros, a freelance technical writer and publisher and editor of the Rhode Island Public Policy Reporter, has nearly two decades of Rhode Island state budgets in his basement. Now Sugoros has published a new book, “Ten Things You Don’t Know About Rhode Island,” described as “a skeptical look at government, economics and recent history in one lively little state.” more

Michael P. Lewis, director of the R.I. Department of Transportation, talked with Providence Business News about the process and time frame for eventual sale of the roughly 19 acres of land on both sides of the Providence River freed up by the $610 million relocation of Interstate 195. more