FM Global grows work force 3 percent in 2010
JOHNSTON – FM Global said last week that it grew its local work force by nearly three percent in 2010, adding 27 full-time positions.
The...
Study: $1B in taxable income left R.I. from 1995 to 2008
Public officials and economic-development experts have long said that Rhode Island’s policies have driven away talented people, and with them, their taxable income. But...
Video game industry could energize R.I. economy
To the Editor:
I applaud the recent selection by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee of Keith W. Stokes as the head of the R.I. Economic Development...
An overhaul, not elimination, is what the Fed needs now
The 112th Congress is shaping up to be quite prickly for the Federal Reserve, and for good reason. The time has come to amend,...
Knychalski named chairman of R.I. DBIA committee
Robert S. Knychalski has been appointed chairman of the Rhode Island Committee of the Design-Build Institute of America, New England chapter. Knychalski currently serves...
Vacation-home market thawing; signals point to an even better 2011
(Corrected, Jan. 25)
After taking a wallop from the Great Recession, sales of vacation homes in Rhode Island show signs of recovering, local real estate...
Decline in business starts slows; entrepreneurs still face many hurdles
Cheryl Masciarelli had spent more than a decade building a successful real estate brokerage business in Arizona, so when an illness in her family...
Boston consumers paid more for gas, electricity; pump prices rose 16%...
BOSTON – Consumers in the Boston-Brockton-Nashua, N.H., metropolitan area paid more for utility gas and electricity in December than the U.S. city average, the...
Fortune ranks Gilbane, Hasbro among the 100 best companies to work...
PROVIDENCE – Fortune has ranked two local companies on its “100 Best Companies to Work For” list from the Feb. 7 issue.
In the...
Verrecchia resigns from EDC board
(Updated, 1:30 p.m.)
PROVIDENCE – Prominent businessman Alfred J. Verrecchia has resigned as vice chairman of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation’s board of directors, a...
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