Governor Carcieri yesterday 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 and finding challenges in attracting higher tech new industries to the state,” a spokeswoman for Carcieri, Amy Kempe, said in an interview.

Carcieri said in a statement that the panel will examine the “mission, organizational structure, leadership, governance, and staffing” of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, the state’s economic development agency, which is chartered as a public corporation created by the General Assembly.

Full Story: Carcieri forms panel to look at role of EDC Source: Providence Journal, December 18th, 2008 Author: Paul Edward Parker Added on December 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am, by Matt Mikula