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Meet the Makers: AquasGroup helps other manufacturers clean up their acts
(Editor’s note: This is the 20th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
6 local companies earn top scores on 2023 Disability Equality Index
PROVIDENCE – Six local companies, including three based in Rhode Island, all earned perfect scores on the 2023 Disability Equality Index administered jointly by...
‘Sutton Place,’ former Federal Hill funeral home, slated for apartments
PROVIDENCE – A former funeral home in the Federal Hill area of Providence that was most recently used as offices, including one for Demco...
Unemployment scams adding up in R.I.
Scam unemployment claims continue to cost Rhode Island, with more than $70.5 million in fraudulent payouts racked up since the start of the COVID-19...
URI, UMaine researchers receive $1.2M grant to study floating offshore wind...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Engineers at the University of Rhode Island, along with colleagues from the University of Maine, have been awarded a $1.2 million...
Lawyers only constant in ever-evolving General Assembly
Farmers were a powerful voting bloc in Rhode Island in the early days of statehood and ruled the General Assembly.
That’s because the structure of...
R.I. launching $45M ‘back to work’ program
PROVIDENCE – The state will use $45 million of its federal stimulus funds to create a workforce development initiative to provide training and coaching...
Vets provide upper hand for some defense firms
The veteran-owned Rite-Solutions Inc. isn’t really a small company. The Middletown-based engineering and information technology company has about 220 employees.
But as a defense contractor,...
CEO-to-CEO call paved way for United Technologies/Raytheon blockbuster
NEW YORK – When Greg Hayes took the reins at United Technologies Corp. in late 2014, the newly minted CEO said he would pursue...
Can a new business incubator keep a bigger slice of Navy...
For years, community leaders in Newport have watched as the nearby Naval Undersea Warfare Center has farmed out billions of dollars in contracts to...