Tag: Focus
Payday lender opponents renew legislative effort
Advocates for payday lending reform celebrated lin 2023 when the House voted overwhelmingly for a bill they believed would finally curtail so-called “payday lenders,”...
Few signs of cooling in luxury rental market
These days, most of the prospective homebuyers who call real estate agent Kira Greene aren’t from Rhode Island, and in a strange way, that...
Bankers fight to overturn rule on overdraft fees
A proposed banking regulation that one federal agency says will save Americans $5 billion a year in overdraft fees is facing strong opposition from...
Pawtucket looks to hire firm to give it some hype
Rocked by the loss of the Pawtucket Red Sox in 2020 and reeling from the possible departure of toymaking giant Hasbro Inc., Pawtucket leaders...
On the drawing board, golf courses are downsizing
Any successful endeavor, whether a personal relationship or new construction, requires three elements that are in short order in today’s culture.
Money, space and time.
This...
Threat of TikTok ban has some businesses changing plans
Last summer, Savannah Campbell made a commitment to herself to post on TikTok every day to boost her business.
Campbell’s original strategy was working. In...
More eviction filings have these nonprofit legal services laboring
Lawyer Steven S. Flores and his staff at the Housing Law Center at Rhode Island Legal Services Inc. are busy these days, and many...
Vape shops begin to fade with flavor ban in place
Cinnamon fireball was among the many flavors at White Horse Vapor that Eugene DiSarro tried when he decided to stop smoking cigarettes for good...
Will expanded Wavemaker keep teachers in R.I.?
When it was first launched in 2016, the Wavemaker Fellowship was designed to be an incentive to persuade new, highly trained college graduates working...
With $87.5M lab, URI prepping to expand state’s biotech capability
Some biomedical researchers at the University of Rhode Island may be working toward breakthroughs in cancer studies, environmental health sciences and neuroscience. But sometimes,...
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