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Rhode Island businesses have a little more than a week left to file their annual reports with the state.    For-profit businesses are required to file by March 31st each year.

This year the last day of the month falls on a Sunday.  However businesses can still file up to midnight on that day if they do so online.  The link for Annual Reports is found on the website of the Secretary of State. 

Businesses can also file by mail or in-person.

A chain of Rhode Island restaurants has instituted a new policy aimed at cracking down on the passers of counterfeit bills.

Providence Business News Editor Mark Murphy joins Rhode Island Public Radio's Dave Fallon for a weekly business segment we're calling "The Bottom Line." Each Friday it looks at business news and themes that affect local business and the public.

This week Dave and Mark talk with Coastal Medical President Dr. Alan Kurose. Coastal is the state’s largest medical network.  They’re looking at ways the state’s projected aging population will affect the medical care professions and create new job opportunities.

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It’s the end of an era for a popular Boston weekly newspaper. The Boston Phoenix will publish its last edition March 15th. The last online edition will come a week later.  The company’s newspapers in Providence and Portland, Maine will continue publishing.