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Bill OK’d to award contracts to R.I. firms

(Updated, 4:40 p.m.) PROVIDENCE – The General Assembly has approved a bill that would give preference in the awarding of state contracts to Rhode Island-based...

ProvPlace gets MooBella Ice Creameries

PROVIDENCE – MooBella Inc. has installed three more Ice Creamery machines in Rhode Island at one high-profile location: the movie theater inside Providence Place...
BROWN UNIVERSITY has raised more than $1.5 billion since launching a capital campaign in 2005. Above, Manning Chapel on Brown's Main Green. /

‘Boldly Brown’ campaign hits $1.5B

PROVIDENCE – Brown University has raised more than $1.5 billion for its “Boldly Brown” capital campaign with seven months still to go. Brown raised more...
AMONG YOUNG Rhode Islanders, foreign-born and Hispanic residents were the most likely to be neither working nor in school in 2008 and 2009, a study found. (Click here to view a larger version.) /

Study: Youth jobless rate hits 18% in R.I.

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders between the ages of 16 and 24 have been hit hardest by the Great Recession, according to a report presented...

Verizon adds FiOS Digital Voice service

NEW YORK – Rhode Island and Massachusetts are two of 11 states in which a new digital voice phone service option is now available...

ER Card to sell ePHRs in Australia

WEST WARWICK – ER Card LLC announced last week a partnership with Australia to offer electronic personal health-record products in that country. “We realize the...

Langevin’s cybersecurity office gets OK

WARWICK – The Department of Defense budget was recently passed, including an amendment offered by U.S. Reps. James R. Langevin, D-R.I., and Diane Watson,...
"THE PASSAGE of this amendment comes after a great deal of work to raise awareness about the cyber vulnerabilities that exist throughout our federal government," said U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin, co-chair of the House Cybersecurity Caucus.  /

Langevin’s cybersecurity office gets OK

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense budget was recently passed, including an amendment offered by U.S. Reps. James R. Langevin, D-R.I., and Diane Watson,...
PROVIDED FOR: Provider Insurance’s 39 employees, who are split between locations in Woonsocket and Needham, Mass. /

Work-life balance helps workers stay productive

Job development is an important aspect at Provider Insurance Group Inc. – it encourages its employees to be licensed and offers bonuses for various...
NEW PERSPECTIVE: Amy Vine, project and training coordinator at Perspectives, leads a meeting about workplace efficiency. /

Training that is both fun and challenging leads to success

Since 1977, North Kingstown’s Perspectives Corp. has been providing residential and vocational services to adults and youth who suffer from various mental, physical and...
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