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March 21, 2016

Pioneer Calls for Creation of $20 Million Middle Cities Infrastructure Fund

Read news coverage in The Enterprise of Brockton. Convention Center Fund surplus would also modernize delivery of basic services, create incentive for municipal reforms BOSTON – A new Pioneer Institute report calls for the creation of an Infrastructure Investment Fund (IIF) that...
Opportunity, Transportation
May 2, 2015

The Convention Center Expansion was a House of Cards

In a piece by Jack Encarnacao in the Boston Herald, Richard Rogers, executive secretary-treasurer of the Greater Boston Labor Council claimed that opponents of the South Boston Convention Center expansion were “ideological.”  He called out Pioneer for putting ideology “ahead of the best interests of...
American Citizenship, Opportunity
March 17, 2015

Introducing MassAnalysis: Online tool for comparing communities

Want to benchmark your community against its peers? Want to bring significant variances to the attention of your town’s finance committee before they vote on the budget?    Considering moving to a new town and want to see if your property taxes...
Opportunity
December 3, 2013

Detroit Breakdown

The New York Times today is reporting that Detroit is eligible to shed billions in debt in the largest public bankruptcy ever in the United States, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, while also finding that the public pensions could be reduced during...
Opportunity
July 22, 2013

Is Detroit coming to Massachusetts' cities?

Anybody who expects a Chapter 9 filing in Massachusetts in the next couple of years does not know what he or she is talking about.  Feel better now?  You shouldn’t. Not that I want it to occur — hardly the case as...
American Citizenship, Opportunity
July 12, 2011

Outsourcing Helps Cities and Towns Provide Better Services for Less

New Report Shows Municipalities across the Bay State Can Reduce Costs by 75% and Increase Productivity by Contracting Services
Healthcare, Opportunity
April 21, 2011

Harvard's Effort to Make Cities Matter

Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative has recently launched an interesting academic exercise of a virtual think tank at the Harvard Business Review website HBR.org on the topic of revitalizing cities. The series of thought pieces serve as the appetizers for an upcoming multi-day...
Healthcare, Opportunity
January 28, 2011

Governor's Budget & Plan for Cities

When it comes to the aspects of the Governor’s agenda that impact cities, the press has focused on two elements: 1) Cuts in local aid in the budget and, 2) The push to lower the union threshold in order to allow, or...
Healthcare, Opportunity
December 22, 2010

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

The Mayor of New Bedford– one of Pioneer’s Middle Cities– wrote an interesting op-ed that ran in the Boston Globe. He calls for a statewide task force to develop a new framework for public union contracts in the future. He outlines the...
American Citizenship, Opportunity
May 13, 2010

Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts’ Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth

Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts’ Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth BOSTON- A new policy paper from Pioneer Institute?s Middle Cities Initiative calls for citizens and city officials to shift their...