Consistent customer focus scores success
Every year when the Providence Business News releases its annual list of Top Private Companies, BankNewport is comfortably ensconced in roughly the same secure...
Connecting to customers still drives success
Growth companies in the late 1990s often were as much about riding the dot.com wave as anything else, leveraging technology to make hard assets...
Top private companies, by the numbers
The Internet and real estate bubbles have turned the last decade into a roller-coaster ride, but snapshots taken a decade apart show steady progress...
Carcieri, Council 94 ordered into arbitration
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams today ordered the Carcieri administration and Rhode Island Council 94 into mediation, putting on...
New jobless claims fall for 3rd week
WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. workers filing first-time jobless claims fell 2.3 percent last week, in the third consecutive weekly decline, according to...
Judge blocks Carcieri, who appeals to Supreme Court
PROVIDENCE – A Superior Court judge today rejected another legal effort by Gov. Donald L. Carcieri to unilaterally increase health care fees for the...
Joblessness up in 91.6% of metro areas,<br> including Providence and New Bedford
WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate in the Providence-Fall River-Warwick metropolitan area continued to rise last month, as the work force expanded while local payrolls...
Newport Art Museum wins $134,000 IMLS grant
WASHINGTON – The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded a $134,000 Museums for America grant to the Newport Art Museum, enabling...
R.I. child poverty rate worsens in 2007
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island lost ground on child poverty last year, when the statewide rate was the 20th lowest nationwide according to a report...
Judge bars Carcieri from hiking health fees
PROVIDENCE – A judge today blocked Gov. Donald L. Carcieri from unilaterally imposing higher health care fees on Rhode Island Council 94 members working...
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