Susan A. Baird, Author at Providence Business News

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BCBSRI agrees to $20M settlement <br> in federal influence-peddling probe

Business Services 12/13/2007

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has entered into a $20 million agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...

THE MOUNT HOPE BRIDGE, built in the late 1920s for the private Mount Hope Bridge Co. and purchased by the state in 1955, could get toll booths again under one of the options proposed by engineering firm BP Americas. /

R.I. bridge authority faces $223M shortfall

Capital Goods 12/13/2007

JAMESTOWN – The R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority faces a possible $223 million shortfall over the next 20 years, according to a report presented...

R.I. outspends other states overall, <br>and especially in safety, RIPEC says

Economic Activity 12/12/2007

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s direct general expenditures through local and state government in fiscal year 2005 were higher than the national average, according to...

THE 20,000 ITEMS in the database include more than 100 from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, most of them from its Asian collections. Above, a floral-style Iznik dish, circa 1550 to 1574, from the Turkish Ottoman Dynasty that was a bequest to the RISD Museum from Theodora Lyman. /

Museum database comes to Brown, boasts 20,000 pieces

Education 12/08/2007

An online database of some 20,000 cultural objects available for inter-museum loan is moving to Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study...

CONTINUING HIGH PRICES at the fuel pump are helping lower the level of consumer sentiment, and thus constraining their willingness to spend and support the economy. Above, motorist Chris Smith fuels his vehicle at a Texaco station in Atlanta. /

Consumer sentiment continues dropping

Economic Activity 12/07/2007

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – After dipping last month to the lowest level since Hurricane Katrina, the mood of U.S. consumer attitudes continued to deteriorate,...

Clear Channel: Merger, TV-group sale both on track

Economic Activity 12/04/2007

SAN ANTONIO – Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE: CCU), whose properties include local radio stations WHJY-FM, WHJJ-FM, WSNE-FM and WHJJ-AM, today announced that its...

Mass. foreclosure deeds nearly triple since ’06

Economic Activity 12/03/2007

BOSTON – Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts so far this year have nearly tripled compared with the same period last year, The Warren Group reported...

Attleboro gets $1M MORE Jobs grant to aid</br> Stern-Leach mixed-use brownfields...

Capital Goods 12/03/2007

ATTLEBORO – State officials today presented the Atleboro Redevelopment Authority with a $1 million infrastructure grant from the Mass. Opportunity Relocation and Expansion Jobs...

Sales of single-family homes, condos fall to pre-2000 levels

Economic Activity 12/01/2007

Sales of existing single-family houses, condominiums, co-ops and townhouses fell last month to the lowest level in at least eight years, according to a...