Tag: Elizabeth M. Tanner
McKee: R.I.’s economic driving force is small business
Our small businesses play a crucial role in fostering innovation, job creation and community identity here in the Ocean State. Rhode Island’s small businesses...
McKee, Tanner to lead trade mission to Dominican Republic
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee and R.I. Commerce Secretary Elizabeth M. Tanner will lead a delegation of Rhode Island businesses and associations on...
Connect with R.I. Commerce
Business owners have often grumbled about a lack of accessibility of state economic-development leaders. Rhode Island, however, is certainly not so small as to...
Should you pay tax on bagels? Depends where you buy them
(Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...
State announces up to $635K in latest round of Take It...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s Take It Outside initiative is awarding seven grants to promote outdoor commercial activities, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced Tuesday.
The grants,...
Breeze Airways opens base at T.F. Green Airport
WARWICK – It will now be more of a breeze traveling through Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport.
State and local officials joined Breeze Airways...
R.I. receives $61.7M in federal funds from Biden’s State Small Business...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will be getting a major federal financial award courtesy of the Biden administration’s State Small Business Credit Incentive.
Gov. Daniel J....
Election over, business community ready for action from R.I. Commerce
Some in the Rhode Island business community have high expectations that R.I. Commerce Corp. will soon be taking a clear, swift path of action...
Five Questions With: Elizabeth M. Tanner
Elizabeth M. Tanner | Secretary of commerce, Rhode Island
1. How will you use your experience at the R.I. Department of Business Regulation in this new...
Commerce at crossroads: How will the gubernatorial election change R.I.’s economic...
Gov. Daniel J. McKee was in his element as he strolled along Main Street in East Greenwich one afternoon in July.
It was another stop...


















