Credit-mess fix likely to affect federal taxes
Recently, Congress passed and the president signed The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, one of the most extensive pieces of tax legislation in...
Editorial Cartoon: Out with ’08
A bearded man wearing a scarf labeled “2008” trudges down the street through a snowstorm. Meanwhile, a younger man in a hat and overcoat...
R.I. focus on progress will have broad effects
Innovation is often seen as the byproduct of capital-intensive technology breakthroughs. But recent research confirms what innovative people and companies have known for years...
Tort reform necessary for true<br> emergency-medicine progress
To the Editor:
Recently, the Providence Business News published an article (“R.I. is No. 2 for emergency medicine,” Dec. 15, PBN.com) regarding a new national...
Rite Aid offers free online fitness help
Rite Aid has teamed up with Lindora, a medical weight control program, and fitness expert Denise Austin to design a Web-based weight loss program,...
Stocks head higher on 1st trading day of 2009
NEW YORK – U.S. stocks headed higher on the first trading day of the New Year, after ending 2008 with near-record losses.
At 1:20 p.m....
Larchwood Inn donated to Chicago school
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The historic Larchwood Inn, a 178-year-old mansion on Main Street in Wakefield that had operated as an inn from 1926 until...
R.I. ranks fourth in housing-price drops
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Through October, year-over-year home prices fell 16.12 percent in Rhode Island, giving the Ocean State the fourth-highest percentage for falling home...
SWAP breaks ground on Providence development
PROVIDENCE – Stop Wasting Abandoned Property Inc. this month broke ground on a new six-home development in lower South Providence funded in part by...
NAR: Commercial investment ‘essentially halted’
WASHINGTON – With a lending drought and fewer workers in many companies, commercial real estate investment, aside from cash transactions, has “essentially halted,” according...
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