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CREDIT ­ISSUES: Spencer Blier, left, CEO and founder of Mammoth Inc., one of Rhode Island’s licensed cannabis cultivators, in his facility with one of the Mammoth technicians. Because the federal government has not legalized cannabis, banking services and credit card processing are difficult to come by for businesses in the industry. 
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Credit card restrictions curbing cannabis sector

People’s Credit Union CEO and President Sean Daly says major credit card companies and financial institutions remain cautious about entering the legal cannabis industry,...
ALL ABOUT FUN: Allie Readyhough Shore, broker associate at Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty, stands in a fully stocked game room in the basement of a home in South Kingstown. These types of amenities and much more are a big trend in high-end homes these days. 
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Hotel amenities in high-end homes are reaching new heights

The residential real estate market has a case of “amenity creep,” a term historically used to describe the hotel and resort industry’s desire to...
FINTECH ­COLLABORATOR: University of Rhode Island assistant professor H. Zafer Yuksel believes having URI join the Mass Fintech Hub will provide big benefits to Rhode Island students studying financial technology. 
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URI hoping to close state’s fintech gap with cross-border alliance

In the relatively nascent sphere of financial technology, Rhode Island – echoing its relationship to the biotech industry – hasn’t caught up with neighboring...
PRICY PAD: The listing for a 1,746-square-foot apartment in The Residences Providence on Apartments.com. Monthly rent: $6,800. Much like less-expensive housing in Rhode Island, luxury apartments are in short supply in the state. 
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In R.I., high-end apartments are in demand, too

As apartment rents continue to soar within Rhode Island, even those with luxury budgets are feeling the squeeze. Currently, the most expensive apartment in Rhode...

Hydropower project putting Blackstone River back to work

For years, an endless stream of Blackstone River waters has gushed over the Albion Dam, built more than a century ago to help power...
TEST RUN: Jorge Reyes of Providence displays pastries called pastelitos at the Culinary Hub of Providence – CHOP – a workforce training restaurant that’s due to open this spring in the Providence Public Library. Reyes is in the early stages of culinary ­training.
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Building restaurant in Providence library is far from by the book

These days, it’s not so silent in the Providence Public Library. And PPL isn’t unique in that regard – while libraries haven’t completely abandoned quiet...
SPREAD THIN: Robert Andreozzi, co-owner and chef of Pizza Marvin, prepares dough for a pizza at the restaurant on Wickenden Street in Providence. In December 2022, a rave review on social media from Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy spurred so many orders, it disrupted the business for a time.
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Local pizza joints feel the power of just ‘one bite’

When Jeff Merlino, owner of Merlino’s Pizzeria in Cranston, heard that Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was returning to Rhode Island in January to...
AD CONFAB: DDL Advertising LLC owner Stacey Caputi Liakos, right, chats with digital media manager Zach Ferri, center, and Daniel Antunes, a digital marketing associate. Ferri says the use of cookies to track internet users has been evolving, and that change will continue as Google LLC phases out third-party cookies on its browser Chrome. 
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Marketers prep for Chrome’s cookie phaseout

Do you agree to this website’s cookie policy? Web users likely see a similar prompt daily, if not multiple times per day, as they browse...
OFFICE ADVOCATE: R.I. Public Defender Collin Geiselman says he’s asking legislators to add $600,000 more in the R.I. Office of the Public Defender’s fiscal 2025 budget to raise the wages of staff attorneys as a recruitment and retention tool.
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Understaffed public defenders struggling to cover cases

R.I. Public Defender ­Collin Geiselman is accustomed to attorneys on his staff leaving to take higher-paying positions at private law firms, but now he’s...
MORE MONITORS? The city of Providence already has traffic cameras such as these at Chalkstone Avenue and Raymond Street keeping an eye out for motorists running red lights. Other cameras capture images of speeders. Now the Smiley administration wants the ability to enforce traffic noise automatically. 
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A sound idea? Providence considers noise cameras along roads

If given the green light, Rhode Island’s most populous – and maybe the loudest – municipality will be the first in the state to...
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