Members of the House Finance Committee spent the morning visiting five prospering manufacturing companies around Rhode Island. Their mission: listen to company executives to find out what the legislature can do to promote job creation...

...The morning ended at Lincoln’s Technical Materials, with a lunchtime discussion of what needs to be done to make Rhode Island more attractive to businesses –– both those that are here and those that consider moving to the state...

...Technical Materials, for example, is a 40-year-old metals company that now makes computer chips, aircraft parts and even hardware for the Xbox video game systems. 

Full Story: R.I. legislators map out plan to create jobs Source: Providence Journal, November 21st, 2008 Author: Cynthia Needham Added on November 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am, by Matt Mikula