United pays $67,500 for R.I. violations
A “market conduct” examination of UnitedHealthcare of New England has found the company failed to comply with Rhode Island’s small-group health insurance law in...
Attleboro plans downtown revitalization
Frank Cook, chairman of the Attleboro City Council’s finance committee, sees the council’s vote last month to approve a downtown renewal plan as the...
Former Christie’s space is remade<br> as name resurfaces elsewhere
Christie’s, the waterfront institution that stopped doing business on Thames Street in Newport last year, is set to reopen as an exclusive yacht facility,...
In resurgent Downcity, a call for more collaboration
When Arnell Milhouse was a college student in Providence in the early 1990s, downtown was vacant and underappreciated. Since then, however, he has seen...
Can industrial designers<br> change the whole world?
Industrial designers are not only riding the shifts in their industries. They are creating the shifts by designing straws that filter unsafe water for...
Home-loan crisis seen as big threat to minorities
The event was meant to mark the 39th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, the civil rights legislation that banned discrimination in housing. But...
Tourister Mill developer hopes to stick with plan
Developers of the former Samsonite mill in Warren envision a mixed-use development that opens the waterfront to the town, turns 25 percent of asphalt...
Residential market is flipped out
From Discovery Home’s “Flip that House” to Fix and Flip magazine to a plethora of how-to Web sites and books, the message that buying,...
Bill would limit ‘adverse possession’
It started with a fence in the woods behind a house in Barrington. A couple had bought a property and decided to create more...
New home sales in U.S. rise 2.6%</br> in March to rate of...
Nationwide purchases of new homes rose in March, for the first time this year, as sales incentives and unusually warm weather brought out more...
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