Tag: Greater Providence Chamber Of Commerce
Editor’s Choice: Save The Bay Swim celebrates 43 years
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Save The Bay Swim celebrates 43 years SAVE THE BAY INC. will hold its 43rd annual swim, the organization’s largest fundraiser. The 1.7-nautical-mile,...
Editor’s Choice: Second annual Green the Beach to be held at...
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Second annual Green the Beach to be held in Westerly WESTERLY WILL HOLD its second annual Green the Beach event. The festivities will...
Editor’s Choice: Young professionals to hold Statewide Summer Social
THE SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND Young Professionals will team up with other professional groups from around southern New England for the second annual Statewide Summer...
URI lecture series to be established in memory of Taricani
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The family of former WJAR-TV NBC 10 investigative reporter Jim Taricani, who died of kidney failure on June 21, has announced...
Editor’s Choice: Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce to hold congressional breakfast
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Greater Providence Chamber to hold congressional breakfast THE GREATER PROVIDENCE Chamber of Commerce will hold a congressional breakfast featuring Rhode Island’s congressional...
Does R.I. have too many chambers?
It’s busy being half of a two-person, full-time staff for the state’s oldest wish-granting entity, A Wish Come True. The Warwick-based nonprofit grants wishes...
‘We’re not going to stop [legal pot]’
Amid the rolling fields and wooded hills outside Worcester, Mass., people park their cars in a dirt lot then take a shuttle bus to...
Economic Outlook Breakfast portends economic renaissance – and another Super Bowl...
PROVIDENCE – Those at Thursday’s Economic Outlook Breakfast by Santander Bank and the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce may have come away thinking that...
Five Questions With Frank D. Sanchez
Frank D. Sanchez | President, Rhode Island College
1. Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has proposed expanding the Rhode Island Promise program to RIC. How important...
Businesses seek study of minimum wage hike
Rhode Island again is considering an increase in the minimum wage to stay competitive with surrounding states, including Massachusetts.
Among New England states, only Connecticut...







![‘We’re not going to stop [legal pot]’ DRUG TESTING: Craig Pickell is the president and CEO of Bullard, which makes custom grinders and abrasives. Manufacturers such as Pickell, who also serves as chairman of the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association, are concerned about the worker-safety issues and employer rights regarding drug testing if recreational marijuana use is legalized.
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