Patrick Healy
Summer music festivals the rage in Rhode Island
Rhode Island has long been a destination for its music festivals, attracting as many as 40,000 people any given summer.
Many attribute the state's...
Retail store closings cost papers plenty
Area newspapers, particularly the Providence Journal, already reeling from declining advertising in a down economy, are feeling the impact of the severe downsizing by...
Despite downturn, helping agencies still hope for good year
Two thousand was a good year for workplace giving, and officials at the United Way and The Fund for Community Progress are hoping area...
Cultural, historic sites attracting travelers
According to a recent report by the Travel Industry Association of America, June, July and August are the most popular months for cultural and...
Agencies’ survival based on diversfication
Because of increasing technology and decreasing clients, the advertising climate in Rhode Island has become one where an agency could either shape up, shut...
From boom to bust to boom industry learns efficiencies
The real estate industry has had a bumpy 15 years.
The economy in Rhode Island 15 years ago was too good to be true, said...
New code nearly ready for fire, building inspectors
Rhode Island's building inspection code may get a facelift.
Last year a 16-person committee was formed by the General Assembly to draft a new code...
Business to business from Belarus to R.I. via Bryant
While doing business in the former Soviet Union is not the same as doing business in Rhode Island, there are surprising similarities.
For the fourth...
Cianci’s plan may solve Eagle Square dispute
After six months of what has been at times heated debate over the development of Eagle Square in Providence, Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr....
School-to-career programs help students focus on future
The days when college graduates meander from job to job may be a convention of the past. School-to-work programs now in place at most...
