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Brown charts own educational course
Christina H. Paxson settled smoothly into the role of Brown University’s 19th president and after getting to know the school over the past year...
Finding value of Copernicus
How do you monetize a mythic realm?
Richard J. Land, receiver in the 38 Studios LLC bankruptcy case, is setting out to answer that question...
Pawnshop cashing in on higher end
Before all the cash-for-gold businesses, Internet-loan sites and celebrity appraisers, there were old-school pawn brokers like Attleboro Pawn Shop on Pleasant Street in downtown...
Incubator space way to keep emerging firms in the city
The largest accounting firm in Rhode Island, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., has made connecting with the next generation of New England entrepreneurs part...
Deepwater eyes fed. lease prize in summer auction
As Deepwater Wind LLC fights to install five wind turbines off Block Island, a much bigger contest to harness the wind in southern New...
Downtown vision tied to ‘Superman’?
Central to the argument for saving Providence’s Superman Building with public investment is a vision of the downtown economy driven by residents as much...
Rate hike seen likely for many
Despite efforts from government and industry to reduce health care spending, Rhode Island health insurers say the cost curve is bending in the wrong...
Building future in home improvement
Moonworks President Jim Moon found business opportunity in the gutter.
The University of Rhode Island business-school graduate had been running a kitchen-remodeling company in Boston...
Storm-damaged Cliff Walk expected to stay open
Newport dodged the worst of Hurricane Sandy last fall, but the damage it did sustain threatened a key piece of the city’s expansive tourism...
More mixed-use development should be encouraged
Providence Director of Planning Ruben Flores-Marzan arrived in Providence from his native Puerto Rico days before a February storm dumped 2 feet of snow...
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