MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

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…

A bit like asking if we should build the South Coast rail link

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A friend on Friday mentioned her visit to infamous Gravina Island.…

You can still make money in Boston real estate

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In today's Metro, Mayor Menino is asked why the Hynes Center…

Unemployment Insurance: A Drag on Employment?

Unemployment Insurance in Massachusetts: Burdening Businesses and Hurting Job Creation, a new Pioneer Policy Brief, presents convincing evidence that UI’s problems are serious, but solvable.

New Business Creation and The Urban Economy

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Author(s): John H. Friar — Publication date: 2008-02-28 Category:…

The Knock-on Effect of the Subprime Mess

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I attended the Finance Advisory Board meeting last week and one…

Stack em high

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What level of concentration of poverty is the right amount? Is…

46 years ago and still true

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Jane Jacobs was the maven of public input, but she is also in…