“For small businesses, a hesitancy to hire”

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An illustrative piece in the Boston Globe today by Megan Woolhouse…

WBUR RadioBoston: State Bets On The Future Of Industry

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WBUR interviews Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios on whether the state should be targeting particular industries for tax incentives and other benefits.

GLOBE OP-ED: Mass. cities need new deal with public employees

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The Mayor of New Bedford-- one of Pioneer's Middle Cities--…

Keeping Massachusetts Competitive: The Business Climate in Context

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The Business Climate in Context Author(s): Steve Poftak — Publication…

Revenue sharing for cities is a non-starter

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In today's Boston Herald Jay Fitzgerald penned a tough article…

Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement

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A Look at Educational Achievement Author(s): Dr. Robert D. Gaudet…

Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters

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The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters Author(s): John Friar…

Creating Jobs: Reforming Unemployment Insurance in Massachusetts

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Author(s): Steve Poftak — Publication date: 2011-02-10 Category:…

This is dumb smart growth

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While Pioneer has done quite a lot of work on water pricing and…

234 and counting

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The piece Alan Wirzbicki did in today's Globe has pushed comments…

Driving the New Urban Agenda: Desired Outcomes for the Middle Cities Initiative

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Desired Outcomes for the Middle Cities Initiative Author(s):…

Erroll Tyler and the IJ lawsuit

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Kudos to the Globe editorial page and to the Boston Herald for…

Additional Reforms for the Governor’s Accelerated Bridge Repair Proposal

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Author(s): Steve Poftak — Publication date: 2008-06-01 Category:…

Learning From Springfield: Lessons in Effective Fiscal Management

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Lessons in Effective Fiscal Management Author(s): Steve Poftak…

Floor falls out in California housing

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On the LA Times blog today there is a distressing bit of news…

Fed corporate tax killing state competitiveness

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One could sum up a report from the Tax Foundation as saying the…

Counterintuitive Healthcare Cost Data

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It has been the conventional wisdom that small businesses are…

So, which is it?

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Our friends at CURP and A Better City held an event on Oct. 31st…

Debating biotech on NECN

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Some improvements in the House version of the biotech bill resulted…

One down, two to go

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Just a few months ago, a wise man said the proof of success in…

Nice job by Regional Planning Agencies

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Kudos to the state's planning agencies for coming together to…

Two connections are missing

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In a number of articles in the Boston press on the Governor's…

The Dome does not get it

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But Steve Bailey does. Not because he mentions Pioneer's work…

Chinatown bus

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I know there have been, let's call it, some issues with the Chinatown…

Concentrating poverty in our cities

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The Globe reports in "Warehouse for the Poor" that Holyoke and…

Tough fight but they are right

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Lenore and Skip Schloming of the Small Property Owners Association…