iPhone still drawing crowds at Providence Place
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders are displaying a voracious appetite for the new iPhone 3G, and the Apple Store in the Providence Place mall is...
Local information sector gains jobs in June
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s information sector added 100 new jobs in June, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced in an otherwise gloomy...
KVH 2Q profit rises 33% to record $2M
MIDDLETOWN – Mobile technology company KVH Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: KVHI) today posted a record profit of $2.0 million or 10 cents per diluted share...
Gaube to leave Landmark at year’s end
WOONSOCKET – Landmark Medical Center CEO Gary J. Gaube has announced plans to leave the hospital at the end of this year, ending a...
Five Questions With: Michael G. Riley
Michael G. Riley is a managing member of Narragansett-based Coastal Management Group LLC, a registered investment adviser. He worked on Wall Street for 25...
Norway bank owns 5% of Sovereign common shares
PHILADELPHIA – The central bank of Norway has disclosed in a U.S. regulatory filing that it owns 5 percent of the outstanding common shares...
Conn. association looks to boost confidence
FARMINGTON, Conn. – The Connecticut Bankers Association is fighting back.
Responding to the recent round of negative national news stories about the financial industry, the...
Mancini: Tax-exempt land costing the city dearly
Peter S. Mancini, president of the Providence City Council, has represented Ward 14 for 18 years. The ward includes the Elmhurst and Wanskuck neighborhoods...
Multi-family homes in city hit hard by foreclosure
Terrence M. Hassett’s Smith Hill neighborhood, where many of Providence’s multi-family homes are, has been one of the worst hit by foreclosures in the...
BCBSRI move to bring other changes downtown
Despite the challenges that the state’s economy is facing buildings keep going up in downtown Providence, and at least one of them is starting...