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GTECH wins new 7-year contract with New Jersey

Providence-based GTECH Corporation, which has supplied lottery equipment and services to the state of New Jersey since 1984, has been selected for a new seven-year contract in the Garden State, company officials announced today. The contract, which covers gambling operations......

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Carcieri establishes panel to overhaul Economic Development Corporation

Governor Carcieri this afternoon assembled a team of legislative, labor and business leaders to tell him what's broken at the state economic development agency and how to fix it. "What we're seeing is a continuing decline in traditional manufacturing jobs......

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A second RI economic development official quits

Less than a week after the state's economic development chief stepped down to head a nonprofit that promotes business innovation, one of his top deputies is making the same move. Melissa Withers announced today that she is stepping down as......

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APC announces layoffs

APC, the backup power supply manufacturer based in West Kingston, laid off up to 100 employees yesterday, a company spokeswoman said this afternoon. The company did not immediately say how many of those employees worked at the company's Rhode Island......

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Non-union airport workers get $450,000 in discretionary pay

Even as passenger traffic has remained down sharply from a year ago, the agency that runs T.F. Green Airport has just paid 41 non-union employees nearly $450,000 in discretionary pay. Kevin A. Dillon, president of the Rhode Island Airport Corporation,......

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Airport expects no problem in shortage of deicing chemical

A nationwide shortage of a runway deicing chemical is not expected to pose problems at T.F. Green Airport, according to Alan Andrade, the Rhode Island Airport Corporation's vice president for operations and maintenance. "We are prepared, so we should be......

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Quonset construction to begin

Sen. Jack Reed and state officials will gather at Quonset Point Friday, to mark the start of construction of two National Guard facilities that will be built with $43 million in federal money. A 40,000-square-foot aircraft maintenance facility dating from......

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