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Not long after JetBlue Airways first took to the skies in 2000, Rhode Island officials hoping to bring it to T.F. Green International Airport began a courtship of the low-cost carrier that would last more than a decade.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Brookline Bancorp Inc., the parent company of Bank Rhode Island announced on Thursday it has set aside $4.2 million to cover possible losses from two business loans BankRI issued shortly after Brookline bought the bank in January.
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By PBN Staff
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Program manager for the Providence office of the Center for Women & Enterprise, talks to Providence Business News about CWE, its growth over the last 12 years and the organization’s new online learning program.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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GoGo Cast Inc., provider of digital signage and branded content in public spaces, has acquired the assets of Dingo Mobile Inc., a Canadian developer of social media-based applications for marketing purposes.
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A free seminar, “First-Time Homebuying Made Easy,” will be held on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 at 6 p.m., at Washington Trust’s Reservoir Avenue Office at 645 Reservoir Ave., in Cranston.
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By Michael Souza |
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Jewelry designer Alex and Ani LLC has purchased Wilson’s of Wickford’s North Kingston location, Alex and Ani CEO Giovanni Feroce announced late Tuesday.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Rhode Island’s gasoline prices rose 6 cents this week, according to AAA Southern New England. The cost of self-serve, unleaded regular averaged $3.69 per gallon in the Ocean State – up 6 cents from last week and 21 cents over the last month – according to the trade group’s weekly survey of Rhode Island’s pump prices.
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Flawed labor market data continues to confuse assessment of the state’s economic recovery, University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro reports in his latest Current …
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By Rebecca Keister |
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A second pool of mosquitoes in Rhode Island have tested positive for the West Nile Virus, according to the R.I. Department of Environmental Management.
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Rhode Island College and Teach For America, a program that places teachers in urban and rural educational systems, are partnering to offer a teacher certificate program in elementary education that could lead to a master’s degree in education.
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By Rebecca Keister |