Bird flu may drop business back to earth
A little more than a year ago, we heard warnings from Gov. Donald L. Carcieri and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael...
RIEMA makes steady progress<br> in planning efforts
As executive director of the R.I. Emergency Management Agency, Robert J. Warren works to protect Rhode Island’s residents and property for the event...
Paying a price for their service
Richard Dumont was in the process of building two houses and one home addition in November 2003 when he received notification of his deployment...
Bills would narrow gaps in premiums
An alliance of businesses and consumer advocates is pushing for a major overhaul of Rhode Island’s small-group health insurance market, promoting legislation that would...
Imperfect fixes for daylight-saving time problems
After the Y2K scare, you’d think that the computer industry could handle without much difficulty a little thing like a change in daylight-saving time...
Web still growing as ad medium
A recent report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers pegs U.S. Internet ad spending in 2006 at $16.8 billion, up 34 percent...
EpiVax is closer to clinical trials for vaccines
Having spent the first part of its history developing a closely guarded technology platform that drives its work, a Providence company is working to...
Tapping a world of schoolroom innovation
Schools have to organize and coordinate massive amounts of information – from student records to complicated class schedules – and to do so, many...
Bills would lift cap on renewable-energy credit
A pair of bills now before the General Assembly would lift the caps on state personal income tax credits given to Rhode Island residents...
U.S. banks reap profits from China connections
Citizens Financial Group and Bank of America are among a vanguard of large U.S. banks that have bought stakes in Chinese banks and forged...
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