Fund investors may pay record taxes on gains
U.S. mutual-fund investors may pay record capital-gains and dividend taxes for 2007 even though many of their holdings fell in value, according to analysts...
Citizens awards $25,000 for assault awareness
The Citizens Bank Foundation recently granted sexual assault-awareness center Day One $25,000 to mark April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The grant will go...
BankNewport event aids Women’s Resource Center
Forty BankNewport employees recently laced up their bowling shoes to benefit the Women’s Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties. The event was held...
Greenspan: Most firms can weather recession
The U.S. economy has what Alan Greenspan calls one “major advantage” as it falls into a recession: Businesses are in far better financial shape...
Lifespan: Patient safety is ‘highest priority’
The senior clinicians were there, of course, but also the managers in everything from personnel to housekeeping, corporate executives and trustees – almost 400...
Bangers and bric-a-brac, with tea
Journey to Britain without leaving Rhode Island by visiting the Basically British Tea Room, an Anglophile’s delight, complete with cucumber sandwiches, clotted cream, bangers...
Several local companies get recognition in SBA awards
Winners of the 2008 Small Business Awards include a Pawtucket transportation company, a historic Federal Hill restaurant and two small business advocates with the...
Training for travel and tourism
When Bob Bowlby called T.F. Green Airport to make sure his elderly mother – who no longer has a driver’s license – would be...
CCRI program expands to meet demand
For proof the state’s tourism industry is growing, you need look no further than the Community College of Rhode Island, where the travel and...
Visa program quotas create potential crisis
Adding to worries about the upcoming tourist season driven by the slowing economy, the local hospitality industry is facing a likely shortage of seasonal...
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