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This year marks the fourth consecutive year that Rockland Trust has acted as lead sponsor of the Advancing Women's Excellence conference, which Leading Women presented at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Providence-Warwick in Warwick last Thursday, June 14.
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By Michael Souza |
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Director of the Rhode Island Small Business Development Center at Johnson & Wales University talks about the center’s work.
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By Michael Souza |
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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the completion of a critical environmental assessment today, advancing plans for offshore wind development in the Ocean State.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Providence is at the top of the latest Hispanic Metropolitan Unemployment list for the second year in a row.
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By Dana Reilly |
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GlaxoSmithKline, as part of a deal with the federal government to pay $3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges that the pharmaceutical firm fraudulently marketed and priced drugs it manufactures, has agreed to pay Rhode Island $4.6 million.
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By PBN Staff
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Rhode Island’s gasoline price dropped 4 cents this week in the 11th consecutive week of declines, according to AAA Southern New England.
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By PBN Staff |
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Single-family home prices in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River area dropped 4.2 percent in May compared with the same period in 2011, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index.
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By PBN Staff
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Sexy Period - the Providence startup maker of fashionable, leak-resistant undergarments – has rebranded to Underbrella to appeal to a broader clientele base, the company announced Monday.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Oil declined in New York as euro-area unemployment reached the highest level on record, prompting speculation that crude’s surge last week, its biggest in three years, may have been excessive.
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By Grant Smith |
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The Massachusetts Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives announced the launch of Chamber Health Coop on June 25, a purchasing cooperative that makes health insurance more affordable for small businesses.
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By Richard Asinof |