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Connect with Commerce: Investments improving R.I. economy

(Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...

Are you satisfied with the direction of the state’s tourism efforts?

Rhode Island is searching for a new tourism leader after Anika Kimble-Huntley stepped down at the end of April for a job with Las...

CODAC celebrates opening of integrated health care center

PROVIDENCE –CODAC Behavioral Healthcare celebrated the opening of its new integrated health care center on Monday. CODAC’s new headquarters is located on Royal Little Drive...

Diossa to present Rhode Island Investor Conference on May 30

PROVIDENCE – R.I. General Treasurer James A. Diossa is inviting bond investors to a one-day Rhode Island Investor Conference at the Omni Providence Hotel...

Senate allows McKee cabinet pay raises, marking split with House

Eleven members of Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s cabinet will see their salaries increase Sunday, after the R.I. Senate declined to stop the pay bumps...

8 R.I. affordable housing projects receive $3.5M in community block grants

PROVIDENCE – More than $3.5 million in community development block grants were awarded to various housing projects across Rhode Island in what state officials...
OPPOSED: Randall Rose, a member of the Kennedy Plaza Resilience Coalition, is pictured in front of one of the parcels next to the train station recommended for a new R.I. Public Transit Authority hub.
PBN PHOTO/PAUL J. SPETRINI

Stuck in transit: Is RIPTA’s long hunt for bus hub location...

In 2014, the R.I. Department of Transportation produced a video promising a state-of-the-art transit hub to replace the “overcrowded” Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence,...
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: John Faella is the owner of Sterling Cleaners Inc., which is located across the street from the Cranston Street Armory in the West End of Providence. Faella says his business benefits from the armory being used as a sound stage for TV and film productions because crews seek his services when they need costumes cleaned or repaired, which can bring in an additional $5,000 to $7,000 of business per production.
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For some local businesses, film productions are lights, camera… extra money

Sterling Cleaners Inc. in the working-class West End of Providence might feel like a world away from the glitz of Hollywood, but it’s closer...

Budget proposal would hike employers’ workers’ comp costs

To the Editor: I write as an advocate for a healthy and stable workers’ compensation system in Rhode Island. Article 2, Section 2 of Gov. Daniel...

7 affordable housing projects awarded $27.2M in tax credits

PROVIDENCE – Seven affordable housing projects across the state have been awarded $27.2 million in low-income housing tax credits.  The awards, the first ever from...
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