Textron among ‘America’s Safest Companies’
PROVIDENCE – Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) today announced it has been ranked by Occupational Hazards magazine among America’s Safest Companies in 2008.
Eighteen employers were...
ProvEquity to shift Ironman HQ to Tampa
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., and PROVIDENCE – The headquarters of the Ironman Triathlon endurance sports events will remain in Florida after its acquisition earlier...
AAA: R.I. gasoline prices resume their decline
PROVIDENCE – “After a week unchanged, gasoline prices in Rhode Island returned to their recent downward trend,” Lloyd P. Albert, senior vice president of...
Cash-strapped RIPTA seeks answers
With ridership up 34 percent since 2005, the R.I. Public Transit Authority should be riding high. Instead, the perennially cash-strapped agency is facing its...
Changing the charge makes rational sense
The R.I. Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is considering a proposal to change the way National Grid charges its customers for the gas it provides....
National Grid looks for fixed profits
The R.I. Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is examining an innovative but complicated proposal from National Grid that would transform the way the utility makes...
Newer is better, and bigger
The $200 million bridge spanning the Taunton River between Fall River and Somerset is well on its way to a 2012 completion date. It...
Newport’s tennis hall will step up traveling exhibits
The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport was founded a half-century ago on the site of the first U.S. National Tennis Championship, which...
FM Global division will cover ‘green’ building
JOHNSTON – Affiliated FM – a middle-market commercial property-insurance unit of FM Global – has introduced a “green-coverage endorsement” to its “proVision” all-risk property...
Despite losses, P&W rail a survivor
Providence & Worcester Railroad Co. likes to think of its industry as a green alternative in transportation that actually offers a cost benefit, too.
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