Mass. gains 10,000 jobs in private sector from May to June
BOSTON – The state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said last week that preliminary June estimates show more than 3.2 million jobs...
EDC cuts staff, ends marketing contract
The R.I. Economic Development Corporation is retooling now that the agency’s state appropriation for fiscal 2012 has been cut by 15 percent – a...
Ruling blow to affordable housing
The East Greenwich Town Council nearly five years ago sought to boost the availability of affordable housing. Taking a page from other communities, the...
Pundit prediction on muni defaults way off the mark
Cutting the hours a public library is open isn’t a municipal-bond default.
Disbanding a city’s symphony orchestra isn’t a municipal-bond default.
Asking retirees to pay more...
Andera expanding product line with fraud detection
Charlie Kroll, CEO of Andera Inc., began his company out of his Brown University dorm room in 2000 as a Web-development firm.
The company eventually...
Fox: Pension woes threaten state’s ability to compete
House Speaker Gordon D. Fox barely has time to exhale. The legislative session just ended in June with the passage of a $7.7 billion...
Sundlun: ‘man for moment of crisis’
Laurie White remembers that after taking the job as president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce in 2005, former Gov. Bruce G. Sundlun...
Kopin Corp. 2Q profit declines
TAUNTON – Kopin Corp. saw its second-quarter profit decline to $801,824 from $1.86 million in the same period a year earlier.
The supplier of...
U.S. economy grows less than forecast after almost stalling
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew less than forecast in the second quarter, after almost coming to a halt at the start of the...
AmerisourceBergen expects to keep Medco contract, CEO says
WASHINGTON - Drug distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. doesn’t expect to lose its contract with Medco Health Solutions Inc., its biggest customer, as part of Express...
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