Newsmakers
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Rob Armstrong grew up around the family business, A.B. Munroe Dairy in East Providence, but during that time had no interest in taking it over. When his father retired 20 years ago, Armstrong had to be convinced to leave the delivery truck and sit behind a desk in the president’s office.
May 19
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Richard L. Fuka is the president of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance, an organization he started in 2008 in response to tightening state fishing regulations. The alliance’s mission is to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business. More than 80 percent of the seafood sold in the United States is imported. The alliance represents the interests of many Rhode Island fishermen, most of whom are independent, self-employed businessmen that own their own boats.
May 12
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Everyone who follows the wedding and events industries – or celebrity news – knows that Bryan Rafanelli, founder of Rafanelli Events, in Boston, is the man who managed to get Chelsea Clinton’s wedding off without a hitch.
May 5
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Before his math skills took him to earth-orbiting satellites and Internet data analysis, Soren Ryherd liked geography and political science.
Apr 28
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Bill White has served as the president and CEO of Coastway Community Bank since 2000, when the bank merged with the Ocean State Community Credit Union.
Apr 21
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Barry A. Costa-Pierce is the director of the Rhode Island Sea Grant program and a professor at the University of Rhode Island. He has held both positions since 2001.
Apr 14
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During his three years as co-chairman of the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition, Larry Davidson of Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., in Providence, has watched the annual contest grow in size, popularity and prize money. In 2011, the competition attracted 103 applicants, nearly double the 2009 total, and awarded a record $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. Business- plan donors and corporate partners have spoken about trying to make the competition the largest of its kind in the nation and a catalyst for growing the fledgling knowledge economy in Rhode Island.
Apr 7
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In the 46 years since University of Rhode Island ocean-engineering professor Malcolm Spaulding first set foot on campus as an undergraduate, he’s spun what was supposed to be a stepping stone to an engineering career into a near lifetime of academic achievements, including building the university’s undergraduate ocean-engineering program.
Mar 31
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Christine Alves is the driving force behind a program at The Learning Community charter school in Central Falls that has created a partnership between charter- and public-school teachers in the community. The program is designed to improve reading skills among children in kindergarten through grade 2.
Its early success has drawn the attention of educators and media from around the country.
Mar 24
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Before Michael Lewis was hired to run Rhode Island’s transportation system, he spent two decades working on Boston’s impressive and notorious Big Dig project. Keeping the Ocean State’s highways open and buses running isn’t as glamorous as the central-artery tunnel, but in its own way is just as challenging. With costs rising to maintain public transportation, a number of bridge projects due and gas-tax revenue flat, Lewis has embarked on the unpleasant job of seeking toll increases. If that weren’t enough, the state’s long-term vision and investment in extending commuter-rail service is again coming up against unpleasant fiscal realities.
Mar 17
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