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Employers plan to hire fewer grads in 2003
People who graduate from college this year will have a harder time landing a job than in the past few years. And those who...
Experts praise Providence for choice of future path
Providence is on the right track in its decades-long quest to remake itself from a has-been industrial port city into a manageably small cultural...
He painted his way to business success
Company: Martone Painting Company
Owner: Michael Martone
Type of business: Commercial painting
Year founded: 1993;
incorporated in 1996
Annual revenues: WND
Michael Martone started hiring himself out as a...
In search of the Web source
Many business Web sites on the Internet have come to resemble neglected orphans, say experts – a result of the many early, small Web...
Regional airline proposed for R.I.
An entrepreneur is courting investors and drafting a business plan to launch a small regional airline based at T.F. Green Airport – and he’s...
Programs help poor buy houses, but rising prices a threat
Residents of Providence’s poorer neighborhoods are making strides in home ownership in recent years, but skyrocketing home costs and a very tight market threaten...
Former head of Bryant fills role as problem solver, teacher
Name: William T. O’Hara
Position: O’Hara, president emeritus of Bryant College, is currently executive director of the school’s Institute for Family Enterprise.
Background: Born in New...
In search of the Web source
Many business Web sites on the Internet have come to resemble neglected orphans, say experts – a result of the many early, small Web...
Fishers see a big catch in flawed NMFS report
Local fishermen have a new hook in their ongoing battle against environmentalists and the federal regulators of their fishing grounds.
The National Marine Fisheries...
RIPEC sounding horn on state’s transit woes
Rhode Island faces a looming budget crisis in transportation that could lead to service cuts, higher taxes and new road and bridge tolls by...
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