Banking fix should focus on most serious problems
Financial reform seems to be flailing. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental changes that don’t seem likely to prevent a future bubble.
The House...
CLASS is the vegetable in health care reform pot
Bismarck was right: every law is a sausage, with programs thrown almost haphazardly into the pot. In a House-passed bill that proposes to expand...
QuickBooks add-ons can help you
With millions of small and medium businesses using QuickBooks to manage their financial affairs, the industry for QuickBooks “add-ons” has blossomed. Add-on programs are...
RISLA can tap tax refunds for overdue loans
The R.I. Student Loan Authority (RISLA) – the nonprofit state agency that provides higher education loans to students and their families – has been...
R.I. cities not using cheap stimulus bonds
Pawtucket Finance Director Ronald Wunschel hates to see a great bargain slip by – especially with the city in such fiscal straits – so...
Providence Place battling the recession
At Nordstrom in Providence Place a pair of men’s jeans sells for $198. Down two escalators Old Navy sells a different-style pair for $29.50....
LGC&D honored by Leading Women
PROVIDENCE – Lefkowitz, Garfinkel, Champi and DeRienzo P.C. was honored recently with a “Leading Women to the Top” award at Leading Women of Southeastern...
Prov. Equity’s MGM for sale
LOS ANGELES – Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., a company that Providence-based Providence Equity Partners Inc. helped acquire in 2004, is up for sale.
MGM, which...
Washington Trust opens Warwick branch
WARWICK – The Washington Trust Co., the largest Rhode Island-based independent bank, has gotten a little larger.
Washington Trust executives recently opened its 18th branch,...
Smithfield High students in Reserve Cup
SMITHFIELD – A four-member team from Smithfield High School is representing Rhode Island in the Reserve Cup Challenge Tuesday, a competition held at the...