Mike Colias
Candidates joust for right to solve Cranston’s debt
In what might be the most closely watched Cranston mayoral race in decades, two successful businessmen are vying to put the cash-strapped city’s...
Hospital’s new leader wants to retain ‘culture of excellence’
Name: Constance A. Howes
Position: President and Chief Executive Officer of Women & Infants Hospital (as of Oct. 2)
Background: Served as vice president and general...
V.A. hospital anticipating more changes
Steven A. Davis, a Vietnam veteran, visits the Providence VA Medical Center about once a week.
Davis goes there for a host of...
Neat trick in Warren: keeping, improving riverfront
On a gravelly strip of land along the Warren River, just down from Warren’s charming Water Street, developers thought a few dozen posh...
A champion of digital photography
Company: Jim Egan Photography
Location: Providence
Owner: Jim Egan
Type of business: Photo agency
Year founded: 1977
Revenue: Approximately $275,000
Photographer Jim Egan stands in a pitch-dark room in his...
R.I. oil dealers eye Iraq
Home heating oil dealers live in a world of uncertainty, subject to the gyrations of futures markets that can turn on a dime....
Health care industry fights impending Medicare cuts
The way Orlando J. Bisbano Jr. sees it, the expected trimming this week of nearly $10 million in Medicare payments to Rhode Island...
Fall River-Freetown development beginning to take shape
The seeds have been planted for one of the largest economic-development projects in Fall River’s history.
Once it’s done, the massive project could...
Brewed Awakenings is hot, but it’s cool to network there
Brewed Awakenings coffee shop in Capital Center recently became the site of Rhode Island’s first “hot spot,” a common wireless network that provides on-the-go...
SEA Corp. winners in contracts and developments
Company: Systems Engineering
Associates Corp.
Location: Middletown
Web address: www.seacorp.com
Employees: 165
Year founded: 1981
Annual revenues: $15.5 million
In July, U.S. Patent No. 6,418,870...
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