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Positive signs, but doubts linger
The winning candidates in the fall elections may inherit a healthier economy than their campaign slogans suggest.
Business for companies in the Providence area continues...
Sheeter maker fights for bigger cut
It’s no accident that most cardboard cereal boxes lined up on the shelf in your supermarket are exactly the same size and shape, their...
Issues that divide the candidates
Making the Rhode Island economy grow and produce bountiful, high-paying jobs are the top priorities of every candidate for governor in 2014.
So frequently are...
Seriously fashionable in the Ocean State
Put those sock and sandal combinations away, Providence. Fashion week is almost upon us.
The series of runway shows and events for the in-style set...
Campaigns differ on financing
The leading Democratic candidates for governor of Rhode Island agree on many key policy points, but not on how a political campaign should be...
Fung: Tax, spending cuts will spur economy
(Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a series of articles focused on 2014 gubernatorial candidates and their plans for economic...
PRA is spurring rehabilitation projects
(Updated, Aug. 15, 11:444 a.m.)
The agency marketing the largest portfolio of publicly owned Providence real estate? It’s not the Interstate 195 Redevelopment District Commission....
ProJo buyer has contract leverage
The pending sale of The Providence Journal to a sprawling national newspaper chain whose past acquisition frenzy drove it into bankruptcy caused many local...
World Cup kicks G-Form into high gear for protection
The team at Providence’s G-Form LLC last year almost couldn’t believe what they were seeing: an in-match photo of Neymar, one of the...
Kennedy Plaza plans more modest
On the streets surrounding the newly construction-fenced Kennedy Plaza, familiar faces wait in new locations for buses to neighborhoods across the state.
They’ve moved to...


















