GORDON FOX, former House Speaker is pictured. Raymond Hugh pleaded no contest to bribing Gordon Fox for a liquor license, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced Wednesday. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RYAN T. CONATY
PROVIDENCE – House leaders on Thursday unveiled a package of economic-development bills designed to improve the state’s business climate by replacing the R.I. Economic Development Corporation, creating an Executive Office of Commerce to coordinate state business services and bringing back a tax-credit program designed to develop historic properties. “We want to have economic-development policies that…