A search committee has recommended planning veteran Ioanna T. Morfessis to lead the state’s ailing Economic Development Corporation, an agency that could play a key role in getting Rhode Islanders back to work.

Morfessis has not yet officially been offered the director’s job. The Carcieri administration will say only that it is negotiating with a candidate over the specifics of the contract.

Full Story: Morfessis backed as head of EDC Source: Providence Journal, November 13th, 2009 Author: Cynthia Needham Added on November 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am, by Matt Mikula