SETTING SITES HIGHER: Will $40M initiative aimed at creating more pad-ready...
When Burrillville officials unveiled plans to create a second industrial park in the rural town in the early 2000s to bring in jobs and...
Payday lenders facing battle on a local level
Fed up with their inability to get laws changed on the state level, advocates seeking to rein in so-called “payday lenders” operating in Rhode...
Stores divided on pot shop zoning
A proposal to allow retail cannabis shops to open in more parts of Providence has business owners split over whether they’d welcome those businesses...
CHASING WEALTH: Incomes in some R.I. communities have climbed in last...
Kevin Breene’s family history in West Greenwich goes back 11 generations, beginning when the rural hamlet had a few hundred residents and was one...
Meet the Makers: Manufacturer helps companies turn plants into food
(Editor’s note: This is the 21st installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Must R.I. give Citizens what it wants?
The 11th-hour budget amendment submitted by Gov. Daniel J. McKee asking to overhaul how Rhode Island-based banks are taxed had some questioning whether the...
Handle with care: Fate of hospitals in balance as regulators review...
Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. was seen as a hero a decade ago, swooping in to prop up the struggling Roger Williams Medical Center in...
Everybody’s Business: The doctor’s dishing out doses of health facts to...
(Editor’s note: This is the 45th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
Building affordable housing units proving expensive
In May 2023, Gov. Daniel J. McKee and other state officials issued a press release touting a $101 million investment of State Fiscal Recovery...
Lists: Rhode Island’s SBA Lenders
Ranked by amount of loans distributed:
1. Bank Rhode Island | Amount of loans: $6.6 million
2. Ocean State Business Development Authority | Amount of loans:...
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