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NEW WAVE: Pier-Mari Toledo, director of mortgage lending at Wave Federal Credit Union, says certain credit union insurances make it less “scary for us as a lender to be exposed at 100 percent.” / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Homebuyers look to 100% financing

This past spring, Kathy McBride was hoping to buy a bungalow in Providence so she could move out of a mold-ridden apartment that was...
CRUISING ALONG: The Queen Mary 2, pictured off Goat Island in October 2012, is back in Newport through the end of October. / COURTESY DISCOVER NEWPORT

Cruise-ship traffic holding steady

The fall cruise-ship season in the port of New Bedford and Newport Harbor is lighter this year than in years past, but in an...
TALKING SHOP: University of Rhode Island’s Business Engagement Center Executive Director Katharine Hazard Flynn, speaks with Portsmouth Business Development’s William E. Clark, yellow tie, and Raymond Sepe, president and CEO of Electro Standards Laboratories, at the “We Mean Business Expo.” / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

University engages biz community

Just days after the Sept. 5 launch of the University of Rhode Island’s Business Engagement Center, Executive Director Katharine Hazard Flynn was out in...
"I could really go on for hours about the work that is happening at Rhode Island colleges and universities to bring about positive change to our communities, and at the same time, there is still much to be done. " / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE CONNECT

Five Questions With: Carie Hertzberg

Carie Hertzberg of Providence was named the executive director of Rhode Island Campus Compact in 2008. Rhode Island Campus Compact is a statewide...

Revolution players bartend for foundation

PROVIDENCE – New England Revolution team stars Kevin Alston, Darrius Barnes, Stephen McCarthy and Lee Nguyen traded their cleats for cocktail shakers on Sept....

People’s CU gives backpacks

MIDDLETOWN – People’s Credit Union employees delivered backpacks filled with school supplies to more than 100 students from all over Rhode Island on Aug....

Food Network chef to M.C. benefit

PROVIDENCE – Chef, author and TV host Dave Lieberman will be master of ceremonies at Amos House’s “Seed to Spoon,” an urban farm-to-table dinner...

Taco establishes NEIT scholarship

EAST GREENWICH – The Taco/White Family Foundation has donated $7,500 to the New England Institute of Technology to establish the Taco/White Family Foundation Scholarship...

RWU freezes tuition rates again after boosting student retention

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University has frozen tuition rates for the second year in a row, finding higher retention rates more than covered the...
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Angelo De Peri, R.I. Hospitality Association board chairman; Rachel J. Roginsky, principal of the Pinnacle Advisory Group; Dale J. Venturini, R.I. Hospitality Association president and CEO; and B. Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the Research and Knowledge Group. / COURTESY R.I. HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION

R.I. lodging, restaurants continue to see modest growth in 2013

PROVIDENCE – Slow, modest growth characterized the past year in the Rhode Island lodging and restaurant industries, and more of the same is forecast...
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