Despite market losses, RI pension fund solid
The Rhode Island pension fund, hit by a woeful investment market, suffered a 10 percent drop or $600 million loss over the last three...
Rainy Day’ fund ready for anticipated downturn
"This record surplus is another proof positive that my Administration's efforts to rebuild and reinvest in Rhode Island is paying off," Governor Lincoln Almond...
Improved infrastructure for telecom sought on Cape
The Cape is currently adapting to a new economic landscape in which a number of small, sophisticated businesses are operating. The new businesses depend...
National Tourism
With a deadline fast approaching, supporters of a bill in the U.S. Senate that would provide a funding mechanism to promote international tourism to...
RI innovation
What is most rewarding about covering the business community are the examples we come across each week of small companies doing big things, of...
Independent direction provided by facilitators
Peter A. Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Eye Associates in Warwick, is sold on facilitators. And he should be, considering the $1,500 to...
Non-compete, non-disclose pacts rule in high-tech world
Non-compete and non-disclosure agreements in business are nothing new. But for high tech employers they're becoming a critical method of holding on to employees...
Software links Young America Challengers
If the New York Yacht Club/Young America Challenge team is successful in its attempt to capture the America's Cup in New Zealand in 2000,...
Mapping the Depths
At age eight, Paul Matthias glued household containers and plastics together to form contraptions resembling old diving bells, which he used to lower himself...
Applied research
In the movie "Star Wars" there is a scene in which Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and their intergalactic warrior pals gather around a table...
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