Susan A. Baird, Author at Providence Business News

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ADP: Private payrolls plunge in October

Capital Goods 11/05/2008

ROSELAND, N.J. – Payrolls at U.S. companies shrank by 157,000 jobs last month, after losing an upwardly-revised 26,000 jobs in September, ADP Employment Services...

CRANSTON MAYOR-ELECT Allan W. Fung, center, a former city councilman, is a son of immigrants and restaurateurs Kwong Wen, left, and Tan Ping. /

R.I. voters overwhelmingly OK bonds,<br> re-elect Kennedy, Langevin and Reed

Capital Goods 11/05/2008

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island yesterday returned to Congress all three legislators whose seats were at issue this year, re-electing U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and...

RETAIL CENTER occupancy dipped half a percentage point to 92.7%, but that decline was partly offset by a 3.8% rise in comparable-tenant revenue, GGP said. The segment has more than 200M square feet of retail space, including the 1.3M-square-foot Providence Place, at left. /

ProvPlace parent posts $15.41M 3Q loss

Economic Activity 11/05/2008

CHICAGO – General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP), the owner of Providence Place mall and the Silver City Galleria in Taunton, and one of...

Capital Properties 3Q profit rises 43.5%

Capital Goods 11/05/2008

EAST PROVIDENCE – Capital Properties Inc. (Amex: CPI) has posted a third-quarter profit of $478,000, a 43.54-percent increase from the year-ago $333,000 (READ MORE),...

Lifespan net income rises 65.6% in FY 2007

Economic Activity 11/04/2008

PROVIDENCE – The Lifespan network posted a net gain of $102.22 million for fiscal 2007, an increase of 65.62 percent from the...

ACLU seeks contempt order for Carcieri’s<br> ‘emergency’ implementation of E-Verify rules

Business Services 11/04/2008

PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union’s Rhode Island affiliate is seeking a contempt-of-court citation against Gov. Donald L. Carcieri for his “emergency” implementation...

Supreme Court hearing tribal-land case

Business Services 11/03/2008

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a closely-watched dispute over land purchased by the Narragansett Indian Tribe in 1991. The...

NATIONWIDE, the average price of self-serve unleaded today was $2.419 per gallon, compared with statewide averages of $2.359 in Rhode Island and $2.459 in Massachusetts, AAA found. Prices fell for all grades of fuel, including diesel. Above, a fuel pump at the South Jersey Marina in Cape May, N.J. /

AAA: R.I. gas prices at 21-month low

Capital Goods 11/03/2008

PROVIDENCE – “You have to go all the way back to February of 2007 to find a time when gas prices were this low...

UMass-Dartmouth report calls R.I. VLTs ‘bad bet’

Economic Activity 11/01/2008

A report by the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis that described video lottery terminals (VLTs) in Rhode Island as “a bad bet”...