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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...
STILL STANDING: 
There is vacant office space in downtown Providence, but people in the local commercial real estate sector say landlords and banks haven’t reached a crisis level as others have nationwide. 
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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...
ANXIOUS TIMES: Office vacancy rates in downtown Providence have been stable in recent months but are expected to rise this year amid ­national pressures created by rising borrowing costs and declining demand. 
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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...
Debra Hurwitz

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...
STEADY PACE: Toye Onikoyi has founded two tech-related businesses in Rhode Island, including a virtual reality arcade called Bubbler VR. Unlike in bigger hubs, Onikoyi says, Rhode Island’s tech sector seems to move at a more deliberate speed, which sometimes can be an advantage. 
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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...
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