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Lisa Regan, of Cumberland, withdraws her card from an ATM at Warwick Mall.

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...
A federal law requires merchants to truncate personal information on credit card receipts by Jan. 1.

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...
Speech pathologist Andrea Domingos works with Olivia Phillips, a 6-year-old from Coventry, at the South County Speech & Language Center in North Kingstown.

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...
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