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No time to waste in aiding ailing cities
Former House Finance Committee Chairman Tony Pires is more familiar than most with the often glacial pace of action in the General Assembly. Now director of administration in Pawtucket, Pires and other city leaders know their financially ailing community can’t afford to wait any longer when it comes to the money-saving issue of sharing services with neighboring communities. more
4/23/12
Zipcar looking to spread beyond downtown, colleges
Zipcar is measuring environmental progress in the number of green-decaled cars it’s spreading through the streets of Providence. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 4/22/13

Mass. DEP fines N.B. waste hauler
BOSTON – The Mass. Department of Environmental Protection penalized New Bedford-based waste hauler ABC Disposal Inc., $1,500 for solid-waste violations related to the dumping of excessive amounts of construction and demolition wood at a landfill in December 2012. more
4/22/13
Humane Society honors two R.I. lawmakers
PROVIDENCE – The Humane Society of the United States has awarded Sen. Dominick Ruggerio, D-North Providence, and Rep. Patricia A. Serpa, D-West Warwick, as Rhode Island’s Humane State Legislators for 2012. more
4/22/13
GTECH partnership slated to take N.J. lottery contract
PROVIDENCE – A partnership that includes GTECH Corp. is slated to be awarded a 15-year lottery-marketing contract by New Jersey, Bloomberg News reported. more
4/22/13
Beach cleanup work keeps veterans afloat
After serving 17 years in the military, Matthew Paquette left his work as an electrician’s mate in the Navy, where he was assigned to the USS Shasta Battle Group Echo, stationed off the coast of Kuwait. more

By Rhonda Miller
PBN Staff Writer | 4/22/13

‘One thing [won’t] fix our economy’
With his city’s fiscal position stabilized, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has turned toward growing the local economy and redeveloping underutilized properties. That’s brought him up against some of the most difficult and expensive challenges in Rhode Island. They include saving its tallest building, the Industrial Trust Tower, and its most spectacular historic-redevelopment failure, the South Street Power Station (Dynamo House). They also include bringing long-sought streetcar service to the capital city and replacing abundant surface parking lots with productive, activity-generating buildings. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 4/22/13

Bombing boosts security concerns for event planners
In the aftermath of the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon, security is being defined, redefined and arranged, as spring takes hold in Rhode Island and civic leaders prepare for crowds expected at marathons, 5K walks, food festivals and Providence’s signature crowd-pleaser – WaterFire. more

By Rhonda Miller
PBN Staff Writer | 4/22/13

State regulators OK sale of Westerly Hospital
The sale of Westerly Hospital for $69 million to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital of New London, Conn., was approved today by state regulators, the first such hospital sale approved under the expedited review process of the revised Hospital Conversions Act. more
Prov. station to get $5.7M facelift
Thanks to approval of federal funding allocations, the state has released the details of $5.7 million in improvements to the Providence railroad station, which serves Amtrak and MBTA passengers every day. more
| 4/15/13
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