State’s fiscal policy gets a ‘D’ grade
While Rhode Island's government officials were bullish on the state's economy, parading out its $128.4 million surplus, a national policy agency ranked the state's...
Any place you are can be your office
The days of the desk being the office equivalent of cement shoes are ending.Increasingly, employees are working outside the office. Telecommuting - working at...
Computers changing designs of offices for lawyers, doctors
In considering how the office of the future might look, feel and function, Women & Infants Division of Oncology clinic decided to focus on...
Quality of the work key for auto body group
Tangled up in the Auto Body Association of Rhode Island's campaign against insurance company repair programs is the debate over whether replacement auto parts,...
George Sage decides to assure Bonanza’s future
George Sage never had to put up a "For Sale" sign.
The fact is, he'd been getting calls for a long time from suitors interested...
Civic Center revival sought
The Providence Civic Center these days is rife with change. Workers outside are repairing concrete work; inside, walls are being painted, seats upgraded, carpets...
‘Moonlight’ becomes the fire chief/trucker
Company: EMAC Transport Co., Cranston, R.I.
President: Edward L. MacDonald
Type of business: Regional trucking company
Number of employees: 87
Sales for 1997: $7.19 million
Year founded: 1976
In the...
A Woonsocket street is reborn
It was the worst of Woonsocket streets. Lined with boarded up mill houses, weeds sprouting from sidewalk cracks, Lincoln Street was a neighborhood in...
John J. Hynes
Name: John J. Hynes
Age: 53
Position: President and chief executive officer of Care New England Health System (Women & Infants, Kent County Memorial and Butler...
MetLife cutbacks set by Dec
Cuts in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s operations are expected to be finished by the end of the year, but it is not certain yet...
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