R.I. jobless rate hits 32-year high of 10%
CRANSTON – The state’s unemployment rate reached double digits in December, jumping 0.7 percentage points to 10.0 percent – the first time it has...
Five Questions With: Erik Bright
Erik Bright, a co-founder of Providence’s Partnership for Creative Industrial Space, spoke with Providence Business News this week about what his group has...
Patrick administration receives energy award
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s administration, which runs a housing program that provides grants to developers and financiers who promote the installation...
Bush signs lease for Dallas office
WASHINGTON – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) last week announced that former President George W. Bush has signed a 10-year lease for an...
Four R.I. housing organizations to get $13M in grants
WASHINGTON – Four Rhode Island affordable housing organizations will receive more than $13.2 million in federal grants, intended to help senior citizens and people...
Slatersville project tapped for loft award
WASHINGTON – The Halstead at Slatersville Mill, a redevelopment in the historic North Smithfield village of Slatersville, last week was named one of two...
R.I. air travel dips 6.5% in 2008
WARWICK – Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport (PVD) fell 6.5 percent last year, hit by “volatile fuel prices and a floundering economy,” the...
Pulitzer winner to speak at Expo 2009
PROVIDENCE – Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history and author of a 2006 book about Abraham Lincoln that inspired...
Jamestown awarded $30,000<br>R.I. renewable-energy grant
PROVIDENCE and JAMESTOWN – The first municipal grant awarded under the R.I. Renewable Energy Fund (REF) has been awarded to the Town of Jamestown,...
Radio giant Clear Channel cuts staff by 9%
SAN ANTONIO – Media and entertainment company Clear Channel Communications Inc. has slashed its work force by 9 percent, eliminating 1,850 jobs in the...
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