Tag: Economic Development
R.I. Attorney General files lawsuit against fossil fuel companies for impact...
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin has filed a complaint in Providence County Superior Court, suing 21 of the world’s largest fossil...
PBN on WJAR-TV, June 11, 2018
Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee Break to discuss the newspaper’s most recent cover story and other...
Fields improves how R.I. Housing fosters community, opportunity
Industry Leader, Social Services | Barbara Fields, R.I. Housing
While Barbara Fields may not remember the exact moment she decided what she wanted to...
Sixteen applicants are vying for shares of $20M Rhode Island hopes...
Is the future of Rhode Island employment in microgreens? Or is it in super-fast, quantum computers, innovative new materials or promising cancer treatments?
How does...
Providence should not let past strangle its future potential
By rejecting the Fain Organization’s proposed changes to zoning in the Interstate 195 Redevelopment District, the Providence City Plan Commission seems to be more...
Investing in innovation a good bet
Can $20 million reroute a state’s trajectory? That is the question that the Innovation Campus project seeks to answer.
Using $20 million in voter-approved bond...
Providence transferring Bomes Theatre in exchange for $2.2M restoration investment
PROVIDENCE – The Bomes Theatre is being taken over by Fernando J. Tavares, owner of Tavares LLC, a local general contractor, the city announced...
Affordable housing is more than an inexpensive place to live
The inability of people – especially young people starting out in their careers with less than median salaries and high college debt – to...
Raimondo nominates 25 R.I. investment ‘opportunity zones’ to U.S. Treasury Department
PROVIDENCE – In the federal Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, there was a provision designed to encourage investment in low-income areas that...
Can too much transparency hinder economic development?
There’s a running debate between the state and some outside parties about how much information related to luring business here should be shared with...
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