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REINFORCED: U.S. Navy veteran Christopher Sanford, owner of PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services LLC in Cranston, didn’t panic when the pandemic hit last year. Without much trouble, he received a Paycheck Protection Program loan that helped keep his staff employed. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Vet-owned firms haven’t shied away from PPP loans

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

While small businesses across the state and the country scrambled to secure one of the popular Paycheck Protection Program loans, Christopher Sanford applied for...

HOPEFUL: Adam Batchelder, owner of Smoke & Squeal BBQ food truck and a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve veteran, hopes a law passed last July requiring 3 percent of state government contracts be awarded to businesses owned by military veterans will boost his business. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Military veteran business owners feel new state contract bill not enough

Government 02/23/2018

As of mid-2017, Rhode Island-based military-veteran business owners may have an easier time bidding for state government contracts, or so the General Assembly hopes. A...

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