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TABLE TALK: Anika Kimble-Huntley, second from left, chief marketing officer at R.I. Commerce Corp., confers with her staff at the R.I. Commerce headquarters in Providence. The staff includes, from left, Mark Brodeur, director of international and domestic group sales; Lindsay Russell, deputy director of communications and stakeholder engagement; and Robin Erickson, domestic tourism and marketing operations director.
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ATTRACTION STRATEGY: R.I.’s chief tourism marketer setting plan to entice visitors...

With the start of the peak tourism season approaching, Anika Kimble-Huntley is eyeing the billions of ­dollars that potential visitors to Rhode Island could...
TIGHTKNIT OPERATION: Employee Maria Monteiro works on a rug at Rhody Rug Inc.’s manufacturing facility in Lincoln. The company produces 1,500 braided rugs per week and supplies hundreds of rug dealers nationwide, says President Scott Weldon.
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Where braided rugs are rolling out the door by thousands

(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
CLASSIC CONNOISSEUR: Ken Hudson, owner of Newport Classic Car Co., offers tours of Newport in vintage vehicles, as well as boat tours of Narragansett Bay via an antique motor yacht. 
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See the City by the Sea from the seat of a...

Ken Hudson spent 11 years as a merchant mariner before changing careers in 2018, the year he founded Newport Classic Car Co., which offers...

Moody’s upgrades Providence’s bond rating

PROVIDENCE – For the second time in four months, the city has received improved ratings from a credit agency, this time from Moody’s Investor...

Pay raises on the table for hundreds of state employees

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Administration held a public hearing Wednesday to introduce proposed salary increases for certain Cabinet level officials and agency...

CCRI to privatize campus bookstores

PROVIDENCE – A search is underway by the Community College of Rhode Island for a private vendor to take over operations at the...

R.I. Commerce Corp. working on new tourism campaign

PROVIDENCE – R.I. Commerce Corp. is in the final stages of creating a new statewide tourism campaign and still wants to get residents involved...

Substitute teacher legislation passes Senate

PROVIDENCE – The Senate on Tuesday approved amended versions of legislation that would temporarily suspend the limit on the number of days retired public...
TAKE IT TO THE BANK: Kira Greene, founding agent at Compass Real Estate’s Providence office, is handling the sale of a former bank in Pawtucket that was marketed as a residential-commercial property. The building is already under contract.
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Your next home could be a school, church or bank

Real estate agent Kira Greene is no stranger to selling high-end homes, but one of her latest listings in Pawtucket took things to a...
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Five questions with Brett Luy

Brett Luy | Rhode Island FC president 1. What is your soccer background? You’re 35. Have you held an executive position like this before? I’ve spent my...
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