LIN TV gains a VP, 2 senior counsels
PROVIDENCE – LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL) today announced the addition of three new members to its management team: Rebecca Duke, vice president of...
Subprime collapse is ‘largely contained’
AUSTIN – Damage from the subprime mortgage collapse “has been largely contained,” Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher told the Austin Mortgage...
Bryant, Brown to co-host conference<br> on ‘The Rise of the New...
SMITHFIELD & PROVIDENCE – A two-day conference next week, sponsored by Bryant University and the Watson Institute for International Relations at Brown University, will...
Jobless rates fall in Providence, New Bedford
WASHINGTON – Unemployment rates were lower in February than a year earlier in 249 of 369 major metropolitan areas nationwide, higher in 94 and...
Pawtucket Citizens Development wins<br> 2007 Housing Heroes Award
PROVIDENCE – The Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation (PCDC) yesterday was named the winner of the 2007 Citizens Bank Housing Heroes Award, Citizens Bank of...
TPG unveils $1.4B ‘O2’ development plan <br>that begins with buying Newport...
NEWPORT – The Procaccianti Group, joined by business leaders and elected officials from Newport and Aquidneck Island, today announced the beginning of an entertainment/residential/commercial...
Patrick unveils South Coast rail plan
DARTMOUTH – Gov. Deval Patrick today announced a plan to bring commuter rail service to Massachusetts’ South Coast by 2016.
“For nearly 20 years,...
Women & Infants to seek public donations
PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island today announced that it is about to embark on the public phase of its $20...
Steamship Historical Society hires director
EAST PROVIDENCE – Michigan native Matthew S. Schulte has been selected to serve as the Steamship Historical Society of America’s first executive director.
His...
ISM: Service sector’s growth slows in March
Growth at U.S. non-manufacturing businesses slowed in March, the Institute for Supply Management reported today.
The ISM’s business activity index was at 54...












