Patrick Anderson
Stepping Up to bridge skills gap
Rhode Island is facing a current and future shortage of experienced nurses – but that doesn’t mean getting a job in the industry is...
Assembly panel may decide fate of car-service apps
Rhode Island is back at war with car-service apps Uber and Lyft.
On Thanksgiving week, state regulators reinstated a controversial $40 minimum charge for all...
Popularity of natural gas costing electricity users
Call it the natural gas paradox: The more abundant and inexpensive the fuel becomes, the more it seems to cost New England electricity users.
For...
Diversification keeps firm growing
It’s almost not enough to be just a good accounting firm anymore. Increasingly, the leading CPA groups are growing, merging and expanding into financial...
Visa/investment program set to bring capital, jobs to R.I.
WARWICK – Plumbing equipment manufacturer Quick Fitting Inc. has secured approval from U.S. immigration officials to broker investments in Rhode Island manufacturers from foreign...
DOT: Raising planned pedestrian bridge too costly
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s top transportation official has dealt a potentially fatal blow to the campaign to raise the height of a planned Providence...
City Council committee nixes zone change for 17-story hotel, apartments in...
PROVIDENCE – A zoning change paving the way for construction of a 17-story hotel and apartment tower on Federal Hill may be wiped off...
Providence Mayor Taveras signs into law revised city zoning code
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Angel Taveras Monday signed into law the first full revision of the city’s zoning code in two decades, a series of...
R.I. home sales, median home price rise in October
WARWICK - Rhode Island single-family home sales rose 5 percent in October and the median price of those sales spiked 14 percent compared with...
Developer negotiating with panel for Fox Point land
PROVIDENCE – A city developer has entered into exclusive negotiations with the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission to purchase a piece of former highway land...