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Editorial Cartoon: Don’t Tread on Me

Two flags wave side by side, one under a headline that says The Spirit of 1776, the other under a headline that says The...

Company aims at energy efficiency for military engines

The Army has awarded Mechanology Inc. of Attleboro a $860,000 contract to continue development of the company’s proprietary compressor and expander technologies to improve...

R.I. program targets minority companies

To Stanford Cameron, there’s no doubt that minority-owned construction companies and minority contractors aren’t getting enough work. Cameron, president of the Center to Advance Minority...

Limits to growth for oysters? <br> Wild-harvest advocate asks for CRMC review

Moonstone Oysters’ production has grown at a rate of about 25 percent per year for the past 10 years. Robert Rheault, owner of the...

Rebuilding hope, and a bit of local history

Odd as it sounds, there is common ground between old diners in which people once shared coffee, eggs and companionship, and inner-city teenage males...
STEEL TRASH CAN envelopes by artist Lu Heintz,  created for public display in Olneyville, have sparked  a controversy over the role of art in the community. /

Olneyville Square trash cans stir political tempest

The trash cans seem innocuous at first glance. Simple block text cut out of the metal panels on the sides written in English and...
JOHN F. PALMIERI, who served as director of planning in the Cianci administration, says that experience will help him in Boston as it has in Hartford. /

Veteran Providence planner takes key role in Boston

In recent years, the City of Providence has undergone an amazing transformation, and a man who played a key role in that rebirth from...
SCOTT WRAG, a CPA at Tofias PC, says he jumped ship from larger firm Ernst & Young in part because of the extra stress created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. /

Accounting firms finding Sarbanes creating stress

CPA Scott Wragg recognized that there was a problem soon after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act took effect in 2002. For 20 years at the national accounting...

$8.25M grant funds access to treatment

The state will receive $8.25 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Access to Recovery drug and alcohol treatment programs,...
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