Mobile shopping is one of the most exciting new developments for retail in years, and “apps” that allow brick-and-mortar-store shoppers to check competing online prices have surged in popularity. Feb 22
The Providence Business News Executive Poll is a weekly survey of 70 business leaders throughout the state, representing small and large companies in a variety of industries.
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Where do you side in the great real estate buy-sell divide of 2012? If you’re a homeowner considering selling sometime in the new year, are you apprehensive that you won’t get the price you need or want, and therefore it’s possible you won’t even try to sell? Jan 7
If your small business is spending precious advertising and marketing dollars to generate leads, and you have prospects calling or clicking just as you hoped, that’s great. But what now? As most business owners know all too well, leads must convert to sales – either now or in the future – before they can benefit your bottom line. Jan 7
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Rhode Island’s taxpayers were hit with a couple major news stories within the last week, but in neither case should the state’s leaders be distracted from creating a positive economic-development climate in the Ocean State. May 19
Of all the changes happening in the health care sector today – federal reform efforts, outcome-based medicine, etc. – perhaps the change with the potential to be most disruptive to Rhode Island is the purchase of Landmark Medical Center by for-profit Steward Health Care, a transaction it hopes to duplicate with other community hospitals soon. May 19
One Ocean State industry employs thousands and generates billions of dollars every year, and yet the state continues to invest less and less and avoids structural change that would make a difference. May 12
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To the Editor:
After reading Jim Borah’s Op-Ed (“Care needed in establishing state’s benefit exchange,” April 16, 2012), I wanted to add my thoughts to this discussion. May 12
To the Editor:
The Great Recession led to a quiet crisis of justice in Rhode Island and across our nation. Reduced funding forced courts to cut the hours they were open, lay off essential staff, and even delay civil trials. Making matters worse, crime victims are not getting the restitution they are legally owed because until recently there has not been a mechanism to collect that debt. May 12
To the Editor:
The city of Providence just passed laws that prevent the sale of noncigarette fruit- and candy-flavored tobacco products, as well as bans pricing and promotional strategies aimed at lowering the cost of tobacco products. The idea is to decrease the number of minors consuming tobacco products. But rather than punishing the citizens who help minors gain access to those products, the city is putting restrictions on the types of products that local businesses can sell.
The result of this kind of thinking will only punish the people who sell the products legally. Feb 18
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, “A lender is a fellow who charges you for his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” If that’s the case, a Rhode Island payday lender is the fellow that lends you a paper umbrella for the mere cost of 260 percent annual interest when it starts raining and then wants it back minutes later in the middle of the rain to sell you another one. May 19
This legislative session, as with those in the recent past, has been consumed by debates about how to improve Rhode Island’s economy and unemployment rate. Discussions of pension reform, budget cuts and the state’s role in aiding municipalities with their own budget woes fill daily headlines. With all this, an important sector of the economy has remained relatively sidelined over the last several months – housing. May 19
“Good warriors … position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those who have already lost.” May 12
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