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SBA launches credit-crisis hotline in R.I.

PROVIDENCE – A flood of calls from local entrepreneurs has spurred the U.S. Small Business Administration and its partners to launch a hotline “to...

Salve dedicates historic ‘twin cottages’

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University tonight dedicated a pair of historic buildings linked by a wooden arch in honor of a longtime trustee and...

Congressmen to headline anti-foreclosure workshop

PROVIDENCE – U.S. Reps. James R. “Jim” Langevin and Patrick J. Kennedy next week will join Rhode Island Housing in presenting a two-hour...

Five Question With: Thomas A. Mann

PAWTUCKET – A former U.S. Air Force officer who served as a military construction and infrastructure manager has been named the new executive director...
WHILE STILL GREATER THAN last year's numbers, the number of people making first-time unemployment claims last week slowed from the week before. /

U.S. job losses dip in early Oct.

WASHINGTON – Nationwide, the number of workers filing first-time unemployment claims fell 4.0 percent last week, retreating from the previous week’s seven-year high, according...

Local leaders unroll ‘map’ <br>to R.I. knowledge economy

PROVIDENCE – Local entrepreneurs and leaders from the state’s business, education and health care sectors gathered today with state and local officials to share...

Opinion Factor opening 128-seat R.I. call center

WARWICK – State and local officials this afternoon will join in welcoming Opinion Factor Inc., a Utah-based survey and telephone calling firm, as the...
FANEUIL HALL MARKETPLACE in Boston, above, is one of several properties acquired by General Growth Properties as part of its $7.2 billion. acquisition of  Rouse Co. in 2004. Today, GGP has more than 200 retail properties nationwide, as well as stakes in planned communities and commercial office buildings. /

No bottom in sight for GGP shares

CHICAGO – Shares in General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP), owner of Providence Place and about 200 other shopping malls nationwide, continue to fall...
WRNI LISTENERS CAN now hear the station live on their iPhone and iPod Touch. /

WRNI debuts first NPR app for iPhone

PROVIDENCE – WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR affiliate, has become the first public radio station in the country to launch an application for the iPhone...

Five Questions With: Philip Meeks

Cox Business, the enterprise services division of the Atlanta-based telecom giant, is growing at a fast clip – the division’s customer base is approaching...
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