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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...
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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...
RUUD BOSMAN was previously executive vice president at FM Global. He joined the firm in 1971. /

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...
"WE BELIEVE that many exacerbations of chronic conditions can be avoided by focusing more resources on patient education and monitoring," said Dr. Harold A. Picken, vice president of health operations at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. /

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...
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