Kelly L. Anderson
Rental housing prominent among tax-credit projects
Rhode Island has approved 23 projects for state historic preservation tax credits since temporarily reviving the program a year ago – none of them...
Interns recruited to build startup
In a sleek, white-walled downtown Providence office, five young people gathered around a central conference table bang away on laptops trying to build an...
Social tools being adapted for Web-based QC tool
Houston-based oil-rig consulting firm The Athens Group first started using a quality-management system from Traction Software Inc. of Providence six years ago for an...
Highway fix short-term relief for R.I.
On one side of the state line, Massachusetts highway projects are plowing ahead, despite the crisis in Washington, D.C., over the solvency of the...
Could municipal broadband give city economic boost?
Like innovation districts and farm-to-table restaurants, municipal broadband networks are trending.
From Chattanooga, Tenn.’s publicly owned gigabit fiberoptic network to Google Fiber in Provo, Utah,...
Risky, yes, but perhaps a better way
Five years ago, Rhode Island used what for the state was, at the time, still a relatively novel approach to renovating the terminal at...
Does empty mill have dark future?
A new preservation battle is brewing in Providence’s Eagle Square, ground zero for debate about the future of Rhode Island’s historic industrial buildings.
The General...
Blackstone zoning plan seeks to limit development
In most neighborhoods, the pair of two-story colonials that began rising on a Providence street corner four years ago – one cream-colored, the other...
Renewable program 2.0 looks to grow industry in R.I.
Rhode Island is turning up the dial on its renewable energy program.
State lawmakers last month approved a new, expanded version of the “distributed generation”...
Partisan differences energize power plans
Rhode Island energy policy has evolved and changed course at the will of its chief executive for the past decade.
For former Gov. Donald L....













