URI pharmacy dean headed to Iowa
The University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy is losing its leader.
Donald E. Letendre, dean of pharmacy at URI since 2001, has accepted the...
Amgen to cut 2,000-plus jobs
Bloomberg News
Amgen Inc., with its stock price dropping and profit slowing, announced last Wednesday that it would cut 2,200 to 2,600 jobs – 12...
Manufacturer focuses on health care, environment
As president and chief operating officer of Mereco, Philip M. Papoojian knows firsthand the challenges of running a small business and of being a...
BDCRI provides loan to Item to prepare for growth
Item Group’s revenue has grown by more than 50 percent annually for the last two years, and company executives expect the growth to continue...
Newport’s lessons for the Bahamas
A 15-person Bahamian group visited Rhode Island from Aug. 7 to Aug. 12 as part of the U.S. National Guard State Partnership Program.
As Keith...
Reshaping a piece of downtown
Two years after the national real estate and hotel management company The Procaccianti Group announced its ambition to acquire and develop a “power block”...
Jumbo mortgage costs rise sharply across U.S.
When a client came to Homestar Mortgage looking to purchase a $1 million home in a waterfront area of South County recently, he learned...
Consumer sentiment takes a dive in August
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The tightening of the credit markets is having an effect on consumers, according to the latest Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary...
Quaker Fabric files for Ch. 11 protection
FALL RIVER – Quaker Fabric Corp. (Nasdaq: QFAB) today announced that it and subsidiary Quaker Fabric Corp. of Fall River have filed voluntary petitions...
Fed slashes its rate for loans to banks
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve Board today cut the interest rate it charges on direct loans to banks, paring the discount rate by 0.5...
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