Forging a new/old path on economic development

When Keith W. Stokes left the Newport Chamber of Commerce in early 2010 to take a temporary appointment as head of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation, he had a knotty tangle on his hands. The agency was leaderless – having just been rejected by an out-of-state candidate who had been offered the job to run it – disarrayed, demoralized. And the fall 2010 elections soon would throw a new untested governor into the mix. More

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