Marion Davis
ATM withdrawal
• Consumers are shunning ATMs in exchange for the convenience of using debit cards
What’s in your wallet?
If you’re a typical customer at Citizens...
City tax bills anger some, appease others
Tax bills are never popular, but the ones that arrived this month in Providence
commercial property owners’ mailboxes had a particular sting...
Brownfields redevelopment affords properties new life
The view from the east bank of the Seekonk River is lovely: the sprawling green
of Riverside and Swan Point cemeteries; the...
Credit-card processors gear up for new privacy law
Does your business take credit cards? If so, when the slip prints out, how
much of the customer’s card number is included?...
Legislature has doubled minimum tax
In a little-noticed move, the General Assembly has doubled the state’s corporate
minimum/franchise tax to $500, giving Rhode Island the...
B of A cuts raise the ire of politicians
The Bank of America Corp. laid off an unspecified number of workers last Wednesday at Fleet Bank branches, a Boston-based spokeswoman said, but the...
Report: Fewer Rhode Islanders take new GED test
The number of Rhode Islanders taking the GED plummeted in 2002, the first year
of a new test series, with only 1,139...
Word-of-mouth builds this business
South County Speech & Language Center
Owner: Kristin King Iden
Type of Business: Private outpatient speech, language and voice therapy
and evaluation center for...
Office fashion more casual as workers dress down
If Briggs Doherty Jr. were President Bush’s image consultant, America’s leader
wouldn’t have that “terrible” wrinkle behind his collar and the color...
Citizens Bank to install ‘talking ATMs’
Citizens Bank is setting up more than 450 “talking ATMs” in branches throughout
New England, more than half, the bank said, by...