Realtors: Condo sales cool in 2008
WARWICK – With nearly 600 fewer Rhode Island condominium sales than in 2007, the 2008 year-end total of 1,210 sales represented a decline of...
ProvPlace parent wins another reprieve
CHICAGO – General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP) this weekend announced that lenders have given the company until mid-March to pay or refinance certain...
Keep the numbers under control for success
If you are like most businesspeople, you don’t run your business. It runs you.
That’s what I have witnessed during more than 30 years...
Finance chair leery of aid plan
Business advocates insist that a proposed economic stimulus package for small businesses is desperately needed, but the chairman of the R.I. General Assembly’s powerful...
Five Questions With: William J. Delaney
Attorney William J. Delaney has spent 20 years in business and commercial law with a focus on insolvency and creditors’ rights matter. He regularly...
Citizens, WJAR name ‘Champions’
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Bank and WJAR-TV NBC10 recently honored four nonprofit organizations – Church Community Housing Corporation in Newport, Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island...
Providence hires Dallas firm <br> to run city pension system
PROVIDENCE – The City of Providence has hired a Dallas information-management company to help administer the city employee-pension system.
The size of the contract awarded...
FM Global’s Bosman elected to board
JOHNSTON – Insurance giant FM Global has a new member of its board of directors, and it’s a local man.
Ruud H. Bosman of Warwick...
Memorial, Walgreens launch <br>stroke education program
PAWTUCKET – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Walgreens have launched a joint stroke education and community-outreach program that aims to help the public...
Five Questions With: Dr. Harold A. Picken
It’s easy to think of health insurers as just the folks who collect premiums and pay bills. But a good health plan can do...