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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...
SHEET MUSIC: Joseph Matthews, president of Maxson Automatic Machine Co., says that the company is one of the last  independent sheeter manufacturers in the country. “It seems like every recession we lose another competitor,” he said. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

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...
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES for governor, top from left to right, Clay Pell, General Treasurer Gina Raimondo, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras; Republican candidates for governor, bottom from left to right. Ken Block and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung will compete in the Sept. 9 primary. / PBN FILE PHOTOS/MICHAEL SALERNO AND JAIME LOWE

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...
BUSINESS CASUAL: Rosanna Ortiz, founder of StyleWeek LLC, said that before the organization was founded, the smaller fashion events in Providence weren’t taking things seriously enough. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
READY TO LEAD: Elected Cranston’s mayor in 2008, Allan Fung is setting his sights on becoming Rhode Island’s highest-ranking official. First, he will have to square off against fellow Republican Ken Block in a primary election next month. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
A NEW LIFE? Providence Redevelopment Agency Executive Director Don Gralnek at the vacant former Flynn School. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

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....
GATEHOUSE MEDIA, the new owners of the Providence Journal, will decide upon the closing of the sell which employees to take on and which will be let go, and those who stay will be offered new terms of employment as determined by Gatehouse. / PBN FILE PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

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...
PRO FORM: G-Form Vice President of Innovations Thomas Cafaro says the company is an “athletics company” first and foremost despite its electronics-protection work. / COURTESY G-FORM

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...
THE R.I. PUBLIC TRANSIT Authority has reassigned bus stops near and around Kennedy Plaza to accommodate the construction. / COURTESY R.I. PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY

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...
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