CVS/Caremark gives $2.5M<br> for health care reform
WOONSOCKET – The CVS/Caremark Charitable Trust today announced plans for a five-year $2.5 million grant to the R.I. Quality Institute.
The institute is a collaborative...
Personal spending falls 0.2%, incomes rise 0.7%
WASHINGTON – U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) fell 0.2 percent in March to $24.4 billion, after rising 0.3 percent in February, the U.S. ...
Puma puts R.I. sailor at its helm
Like so many business endeavors, Puma’s involvement in the 2008-’09 Volvo Ocean Race began with a casual conversation between two people over dinner and...
Attleboro plans downtown revitalization
Frank Cook, chairman of the Attleboro City Council’s finance committee, sees the council’s vote last month to approve a downtown renewal plan as the...
Former Christie’s space is remade<br> as name resurfaces elsewhere
Christie’s, the waterfront institution that stopped doing business on Thames Street in Newport last year, is set to reopen as an exclusive yacht facility,...
In resurgent Downcity, a call for more collaboration
When Arnell Milhouse was a college student in Providence in the early 1990s, downtown was vacant and underappreciated. Since then, however, he has seen...
Home-loan crisis seen as big threat to minorities
The event was meant to mark the 39th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, the civil rights legislation that banned discrimination in housing. But...
Tourister Mill developer hopes to stick with plan
Developers of the former Samsonite mill in Warren envision a mixed-use development that opens the waterfront to the town, turns 25 percent of asphalt...
Residential market is flipped out
From Discovery Home’s “Flip that House” to Fix and Flip magazine to a plethora of how-to Web sites and books, the message that buying,...
Bill would limit ‘adverse possession’
It started with a fence in the woods behind a house in Barrington. A couple had bought a property and decided to create more...
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