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Business losing its appeal to young women

Young women say they are reluctant to take on the responsibility that comes with owning a business and don’t know enough about business...
Production worker at Taco plant in Cranston.

Expanding Taco, Inc. is looking for room to grow

Cranston-based heating and cooling equipment manufacturer Taco Inc. has changed its plans to move at least some of its Fall River operation to a...
Jack R. Warner

His goal is to close the education gap between R.I. and...

Name: Jack R. Warner Age: 57 Position: RI Commissioner of Higher Education Background: Associate chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from 2000-2002; vice chancellor in...

Lessons from deceit

Scandals compel schools to adjust Executives at some of corporate America’s heavy hitters are being read their Miranda Rights. Martha Stewart’s financial advisors...

Industrial vacancies scarce as R.I. investors

Rhode Island’s industrial real estate market has avoided the vacancy glut that most markets are now struggling to fill. That’s the good news. The bad...
Developer Vincent J. Mesolellain front of his current project.

Office space is newest plan for former safety building

The former Providence Police and Fire Department building on Fountain Street will be renovated to accommodate office space, according to developer...

Reviving the massive mills for the 21st century

Wiring and renovating century-old granite, stone and brick mills in cities like Fall River and Pawtucket to include all the 21st-century amenities –...
An artists representation of the Jefferson apartments.

Jefferson apartments are shaping up

The brick walls and wooden skeleton of downtown Providence’s newest apartment building, Jefferson at Providence Place, are beginning to take shape, and will soon...

Reviving the massive mills for the 21st century

Wiring and renovating century-old granite, stone and brick mills in cities like Fall River and Pawtucket to include all the 21st-century amenities –...
RISD's new Center for Design and Businessdirector Cheryl A. Faria.

RISD linking creativity of business and design in Downcity center

The Rhode Island School of Design’s new Design & Business Entrepreneurship Center in Providence, part of the Center for Integrative Technology, will fuse...
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