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Mergers recasting Ocean State bank scene
The local banking industry set in motion a series of mergers, buying opportunities and acquisitions over this first six months that are likely to...
Citizens clings to image
Citizens Bank president, chairman and CEO is Lawrence K. Fish
The challenge for Providence-based Citizens Bank, says its chairman Larry Fish, is for it to...
Scott Wolf
Name: Scott Wolfe
Position: Executive Director, Grow Smart Rhode Island. Started in the position on March 15, 1999
Backround: Executive director of the '98...
Adrian Hall/Oskar Eustis
Trinity Repertory Company in many ways has helped define the Providence Renaissance more than any single entity. Mayor Vincent Cianci, Jr., who years ago...
State absorbs problem-ridden Industry Council
The state Department of Labor and Training has taken over the programs operated by the financially troubled Northern Rhode Island Private Industry Council, essentially...
Big money deals being made but not within Rhode Island
Just read the business formations each week, and there's no doubt that people in Rhode Island are opening new businesses. But what they aren't...
RI’s dark image deters business
While many of Rhode Island's politicians declare the state's business environment improving and more attractive, some business leaders say government simply hasn't done enough...
Westin standing at pivotal point
Over nearly five years, The Westin hotel has been central to Providence's renaissance, maybe even more so than the massive Convention Center to which...
Northern RI Industry Council closes; probe begins
The Northern Rhode Island Private Industry Council, the organization that is charged with training hundreds of unemployed Northern Rhode Islanders, suspended operations abruptly on...
Health Dept. weighs rules to verify Y2K compliance
The state Department of Health is considering implementing Y2K regulations to require third party verification of computerized systems at health care facilities statewide to...
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