Patrick Healy
Spike’s is off the leash, franchising new outlets
The owners of Spike's Junkyard Dogs fast food joint are teaching new dogs new tricks.
With a fourth location in Rhode Island opening next month...
Emergency EDC loans aid those hurt by Sept. 11
At the beginning of last month Gary St. Germain's Corporate Air business was just getting off the ground, literally. But after September 11, a...
PR agencies shift focus after Sept. 11 attack
What were once priorities for public relations agencies now seem trivial to many local agencies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September...
DEM promotes other business use of forest resource
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management wants landowners to see the forest for the trees -- as well as what those trees provide...
Revised Eagle Square plan still has critics
Although the current plan for seven mill buildings in Eagle Square represents a significant departure from the one-story strip mall proposed a year ago...
Persistence brings ‘freak rock’ to its audience
Company: Load Records
Location: Knight Street, Providence
Owner: Ben McOsker
Year founded: 1993
Employees: 2
Type of business: Record label
Annual revenues: WND
While Ben McOsker can claim to have...
Boston and Providence– so near in distance, so far apart in...
Boston and Providence are closer in miles than in cost of living.
With Boston's cost of living140 points above the national average and 141 points...
Forum will allow business owners, regulators to meet <br>
The U.S. Small Business Administration and Secretary of State's First Stop Business Information Center are co-sponsoring "2001-A Small Business Odyssey" on Saturday, Sept. 22.
The...
Right light: productive, healthy
Not only can workplace lighting affect workers' productivity, it can also affect their health.
According to James Celenza, director of the Rhode Island Committee on...
Marriott sees bad quarter but local hotels do well
In a murky economic climate where global hotelier Marriott International Inc. is expected to report a historically bad third quarter, proprietors of Marriott franchises...
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