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‘We can design a first-class health care system’
Name: Robert A. Urciuoli
Position: President and chief executive officer of Roger Williams Medical
Center, positions he has held for the last 13 years
Background: Hired...
An ‘F’ in education stirs a call to government for accountability
In a tight labor market, the competition for skilled labor becomes intense. Those places where skilled labor is most readily available become more desirable...
As the regional economy tightens improving permitting process could help
If we're part of a regional economy, as Kip Bergstrom at the Economic Policy Council suggests, and if much of our economy depends on...
Sound of Music in Providence on Wednesday
Ask Jack Meyer, a booking agent for Broadway style shows, what he thinks of Providence and he'll tell you it's a great place, or...
Hoping we have learned our lessons from Credit Union crisis of...
It was a crisis the likes of which this state had never seen.
Forty-five credit unions and banks closed by the state when their...
Sovereign’s big splash followed by job cuts
It was all about the aftermath of New England's largest banking merger -- the completion of the Fleet Financial and BankBoston union into FleetBoston....
LOA chief: stock price belies company’s strength
Name: David R. Paolo
Age: 32
Position: Chairman, chief executive officer, Log On America, Inc.
Background: Founded Log On America in 1992. Had worked in sales and...
‘The winter of our discontent’
As the winter chill spread throughout Rhode Island and from one end of the country to the other, it did more than cool off...
A federal income tax cut mandates revisions in R.I.
If President-elect Bush wins the kind of support he hopes for in Congress for his massive tax cutting proposal, it could bode poorly for...
Best and brightest discuss business issues
From the complexities of health care reform to the vexing issues surrounding employee relations, to the explosion in telecommunications and e-commerce -- these were...
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