Tag: Coronavirus
State bridge loan fund hits 500 applications, could soon be out...
PROVIDENCE – A state bridge loan program aimed at helping restaurants and micro businesses stay afloat could have more applications in than money available.
The...
Business owners left out as lending program goes on hold
NEW YORK (AP) – The government’s lending program for small businesses is tapped out, leaving business owners who still need loans waiting for Congress...
With pandemic losses mounting, local colleges face biggest test
Rhode Island-based colleges are already feeling the financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the cancellation of usually profitable events and the loss of...
Pandemic Diary: Seeking silver linings
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a weekly series on how Cooley Group is managing the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of...
Shutdown of R.I. training programs could have lingering effect
You can’t learn to drive a tractor-trailer over Zoom.
Which is why the Teamsters Local 251 Driving School, which offers commercial driver’s license certification training...
Flexibility crucial for continuing ed classes
COLLEGES IN THE AREA have their fingers crossed that their adult-education and certification programs will remain relatively unscathed during the coronavirus pandemic, and in...
Five Questions With: Karen Santilli
Karen Santilli | CEO and president, Crossroads Rhode Island
1. You’ve been urging the state to establish a permanent funding stream for housing. Has...
Providence distillery remains in high spirits
Four years of research and development led The Industrious Spirit Co. LLC to a lineup of craft spirits that it was preparing to sell...
Pandemic raises workload for mental health agencies
During the first week of March at the BH Link call center in East Providence, about 3.5% of the roughly 40 calls that came...
Safeguards in place for factory, construction workers
The manufacturing and construction sectors have been deemed essential and are protected from government closure in Rhode Island during the COVID-19 pandemic, but state,...
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