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VESTED INTEREST: Gina Lalli, senior loan officer at Shamrock Home Loans, hopes interest-rate cuts will come in 2024 to spur some home sales activity. New mortgage applications in November were 20% lower than they were a year earlier.
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Real estate industry ready for some rate cuts

While many real ­estate agents are dream sellers, Gina Lalli, senior loan officer at Shamrock Home Loans in Newport, often has to give buyers...

Tax delinquency list shows state’s biggest scofflaws

PROVIDENCE – With the General Assembly back in session and state agencies looking for approval of fiscal 2025 funding requests, every dollar counts.  According to...

General Assembly opens 2024 legislative session 

PROVIDENCE – State lawmakers convened on Smith Hill Tuesday to officially start the 2024 legislative session, in which House and Senate leaders delivered opening...

City scooter vendor files for bankruptcy protection

PROVIDENCE – Touted as environmentally friendly alternatives to other forms of transit, the future of the city’s Shared Micromobility Program offering rentable scooters and...

Free ferry service to continue into the new year

PROVIDENCE – The free ferry service between Bristol and Providence will continue into the new year, according to a Wednesday announcement by the R.I....

Minimum wage hike among new laws Jan. 1

PROVIDENCE – A minimum wage hike and a ban on single-use plastic bags are among a host of new laws previously passed by the...

‘The Gilded Age’ renewed for season 3

NEWPORT – The popular HBO television show “The Gilded Age,” which was filmed partly at several Newport mansions and on location in Warwick, has...
DIVERSE DISCUSSION: Christin Zollicoffe, far right, vice president of chief belonging and equity officer at Lifespan Corp., speaks during Providence Business News’ 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit and Awards program on Dec. 7. Also on the panel are, from right, Amy Walsh, executive director of commercial banking and diverse business regional executive for JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jenny Bautista Ravreby, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island diversity, equity and inclusion manager; Kevin Matta, board president for Diversity & Inclusion Professionals Inc. and senior director of people and culture for United Way of Rhode Island Inc.; Talia Brookshire, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island’s chief diversity officer; and Shameen Awan, vice president of talent management and DE&I assistant vice president at Amica Mutual Insurance Co. 
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Summit panel: Burnout a danger in workplace DEI efforts

Professionals working in the area of improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace have made lots of progress over the years, but it...
BENEFICIAL TOY: James Stallman, president of Eco Global Manufacturing LLC in Providence, with one of its products, a toy foam dinosaur.
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Meet the Makers: Bringing a little fun back into manufacturing

(Editor’s note: This is the 16th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

Bristol-Providence ferry opens with few passengers; contract could be shortened

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Transportation said as of noon Thursday that 35 people had taken the free ferry service between Bristol and...
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