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Startup expanding market for city-owned properties

With an international team of college students poised to lend their design talents to help Central Falls this past spring, the only missing piece...
MOVING DAY: Robert Lamoureux plans to spend “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to move the house at 1444 Ocean Road, his lawyer said. / PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Point Judith home can’t stay or go

For sale: three-bedroom contemporary, like new, with ocean views and a fascinating legal history. Now in its second location. That could soon be the proposition...
NURTURING SUCCESS: A new state license for lactation consultants is expected to increase the amount of lactation services that insurers will pay for, thus encouraging breast-feeding. Pictured above, from left, are: Ashley Biller, state breast-feeding coordinator; Denise Fenick, chair of the Rhode Island Breast Feeding Coalition; and Michael W. Fink, chair of the State Licensing Committee and director of the Prenatal Education Program at Memorial Hospital. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Has state licensing gone too far?

When Rhode Island lawmakers this summer approved new state licenses for lactation consultants, many observers scratched their heads. Others wondered if state occupational licensing...
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Region’s defense innovations focus of conference

Several cycles of Pentagon budget cuts and plans for a smaller U.S. military haven’t dimmed the optimism of the southern New England defense sector....

Immunization tax is extended to most self-insurers

The thousands of free flu shots Rhode Islanders receive every year aren’t entirely free. The state provides flu vaccine, plus numerous other immunizations for adults...
‘We see gas and hydro as linked.’
MARION GOLD
R.I. Office of Energy  Resources commissioner

Mass. setback casts shadow over large-scale hydro

The plan by New England governors to finance new natural gas pipelines and electrical transmissions lines with charges on energy bills has been thrown...
FINDING A PLACE: Previously renters in Providence, Scott and Heather Wade bought a home in Cranston and will benefit from a new tax credit for first-time homebuyers. They’re pictured above with daughters Sadie, center left, and Siduri. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

State incentive for homebuyers seen boosting market

The $1,500 tax credit adjunct university professor Scott Wade expects to claim next year as a result of Rhode Island’s new incentive for first-time...

R.I. tourism shows gain on ’13 so far

Customers are running up healthy restaurant and bar tabs at Rhode Island establishments this year, with state residents better off for it. With one month...

‘Omnichannel’ supply chain key to digital success

If businesses needed a reminder of the growing prominence of supply-chain management in the e-commerce era, the image of Amazon drones delivering orders on...

Division’s ruling expected on ride-sharing costs

Will car-service apps Uber and Lyft be allowed to operate permanently and unregulated in Rhode Island? At this pace the state may never know. More...
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