Mover a shaker on the business side of going green
Move over box trucks, cardboard boxes and burly moving men. The latest show on the Arpin Broadcast Network has nothing to do with the...
AmbiLabs looks to build on competition success
An East Providence man’s proposal to start a company that makes portable air-pollution monitoring devices was the top prize winner of this year’s Rhode...
Rising energy prices spur new look at hydropower
More than a century ago, the Hunt’s Mills Dam powered a grist mill. Later it would provide pressured water for a fire department and...
This firm glued to digital highway
Twenty years ago, Neal Weiss wrote a 100-page business plan in support of a loan application with the New Bedford Institute for Savings. The...
Negotiating a commercial lease, the other side of the story
To the Editor:
In a guest column (“It pays to negotiate your commercial lease,” May 2, 2011), Dale Willerton, a real estate “consultant,” states real...
Banks: Loans available, but numbers must add up
CPA Richard Kaplan is frustrated.
Kaplan, a principal at Yarlas, Kaplan, Santilli, Moran Ltd., has two clients looking for financing to start a new...
Mass. unemployment rate drops to 7.8 percent
BOSTON – Massachusetts’ unemployment rate in April was 7.8 percent, down 0.2 of a percentage point from the 8 percent March rate, according to...
Funding available for growth partnerships
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration recently announced the $33 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, an initiative aimed at spurring economic growth through public-private...
Bill allows in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
(Clarification, June 2)
Rhode Island could expect to see two dozen more noncitizens attend the state’s public colleges each year and would experience a 14...
Annual meetings elicit mostly yawns
Roseann Gammal might be just a pharmacy intern at CVS Caremark Corp., but when she had a question about the company, she went right...
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