Tag: Covid-19
Neighborhood Health, Meals on Wheels mark milestone in food delivery program
SMITHFIELD – Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island and health insurer Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island recently celebrated the 1,000th delivery of shelf-stable...
SHAKY GROUND: Distressed office real estate could undermine banks, wider economy
The former mayor of Providence is distressed.
When Joseph R. Paolino Jr. walks through the city’s financial district, he’s anxious about what he sees. He...
Pandemic fallout taking toll on commercial real estate
The COVID-19 pandemic has ended but the economic fallout is ongoing in some sectors of the economy, including commercial real estate.
Owners and lenders invested...
Growth of self storage raising some alarms
Driving up Interstate 95 on a recent evening, Richard Godfrey, executive director of Roger Williams University’s real estate program, couldn’t help but notice a...
Don’t stymie primary-care tech advancements
An absolute requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has been a game-changer for patients across the state of Rhode Island. Essential to this new...
More Americans apply for jobless benefits, but layoffs are not rising...
The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week, but remains at healthy levels despite the Federal Reserve's attempt to cool the...
R.I. COVID-19 cases increased by 163 last week
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 163 with no deaths from June 18-24, the R.I. Department of Health said Thursday.
Typically,...
The Great Grift: More than $200B in COVID-19 aid may have...
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal...
TOO SMALL TO FAIL? R.I.’s low-profile tech sector avoiding carnage felt...
After John MacKrell launched an app-based laundry pickup and delivery service more than three years ago, a question sometimes came up during his search...
R.I. COVID-19 cases increased by 194 last week
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 194 from June 11-17, the R.I. Department of Health said Thursday.
Typically, the state reports...


















