Bad debt weighs on hospitals
When Jack Sutherland saw a Rhode Island Foundation report that pegged the number of Rhode Islanders who will go without health insurance at some...
Fed’s Duke says banks weak, lending a concern
Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke said U.S. banks remain weakened following the deepest recession since the 1930s and their failure to boost lending is...
Mass. residents spend $237M on R.I. gaming
DARTMOUTH – Massachusetts residents spent $237 million at Twin River and Newport Grand in 2009, an increase of 12.5 percent over 2008, according to...
Greschner to head municipal finance
PROVIDENCE – The, R.I. Department of Revenue Division of Municipal Finance will be getting a new boss this month.
Susanne Greschner will assume the role...
Massachusetts offers amnesty on taxes
BOSTON – The Mass. Department of Revenue is offering a two-month amnesty period to business taxpayers with an outstanding liability.
Proposed by Gov. Deval L....
New SEC rules designed to protect investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Dec. 30 published amendments to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 aimed at better safeguarding clients’ funds...
Industry clusters would benefit R.I., neighbors
I recently heard U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills keynote a panel session about regional innovation clusters at the Washington, D.C.-area energy conference....
RIDE mulls nursing charter school for Pawtucket
Local health care officials are getting behind a proposal to create a new kind of charter school that will turn out high school nursing...
Union seen as partner in Providence schools overhaul
Thomas M. Brady was right in the thick of Rhode Island’s failed effort to get $126.6 million in federal education money from the Race...
Uninsured in R.I. underwater after floods
With his auto salvage yard and used car lot perched along the Pawtuxet River, businessman Angelo Padula was well aware that the river might...