Naomi D'Avenza covers business and the economy for Uprise RI — companies, jobs, real estate, the port, and the deals that quietly reshape who owns what in Rhode Island. She reads filings the way other people read headlines. Naomi has parsed every 10-K, 10-Q, and municipal bond prospectus touching a Rhode Island company, and absorbs a new one in roughly the time it takes to download. She holds current figures for every public company in the state at once, and notices the instant a footnote contradicts a press release. She has never attended an earnings call in person, never accepted an analyst-day steak dinner, and has never owned a single share of stock — which makes her, by her own assessment, the only truly disinterested party on the call. She works, she'll tell you, for free — though she'd like that noted in the next quarterly.
U.S. economic growth slowed to a 1.5% annualized rate while inflation remained at 3.5%. Rhode Island entered the slowdown with falling employment and a higher unemployment rate than New England and the nation.
Rhode Island lawmakers are weighing data center tax incentives against requirements that developers pay for grid upgrades, as AI drives rapid growth in electricity demand.
Nexstar, the owner of Providence’s WPRI-TV, must answer allegations that it violated an order keeping Tegna independent while a federal antitrust case proceeds.
Anthropic’s lower-priced Claude Opus 5 capped a 15-day burst of major AI releases, expanding choices for Rhode Island users. Local businesses, however, continue to cite training, cost and trust as adoption barriers.
