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Building on Innovation: The Significance of Anchor Institutions in a New Era of City Building

Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Investment by Sector in the Next Five Years

URBAN LAND INSTITUTE
The innovation economy is sweeping away the old rules of city building in the United States and “anchor institutions”—research hospitals and universities—have become one of the primary drivers of this community-based change. At one time, companies could operate independently of community development factors, make industry-based acquisitions or mergers, forgo partnerships with the public sector, and forge their independent path to thriving business and enterprise value. Today, the technology and information economy has created a tempo of quick-speed change and public/ private community interdependencies that have grown so great they have generated a new paradigm of local economic development and city building.

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The Federal Transportation Program and the New Budget Realities

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

As Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan is fond of saying, the debate in Congress has changed from how much we should spend to how much spending we should cut. The April 5 release of his proposed FY 2012 Budget Resolution, subtitled “The Path to Prosperity,” testifies to this new resolve. The New York Times’ David Brooks calls Ryan’s report “the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes.” Although the Budget Resolution nominally addresses the FY 2012 budget, its message is likely to resound and influence the debate about fiscal policy and the role of the federal government in the U.S. economy long into the future.

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From Checkbook Campaigns to Civic Coalitions: Lessons from the Passage of Prop A

Monday, April 4th, 2011
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PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI–ST. LOUIS
On April 6, 2010 the voters of St. Louis County approved a tax increase for transit with a surprising 63 percent majority. The 1⁄2 cent sales tax now raises about $75 million a year to maintain the bus system and expand light rail. Seventeen months earlier a similar initiative had lost with 48 percent of the vote. With the economy in a recession in 2010, unemployment high, and the anti- tax Tea Party movement rising around the nation, the huge majority for Prop A was startling. In this paper we try to explain the success of Prop A and tease out the lessons for future tax initiative campaigns and civic coalitions.

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The End of the Line: A highly ambitious high-speed rail programme in the US has hit the buffer of fiscal reality

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

A well-intentioned but quixotic presidential vision, to make high-speed rail service available to 80 percent of Americans in 25 years, is being buffeted by a string of reversals. And, like its British counterpart, the London-to-Birmingham high speed rail line (HS2), it is the subject of an impassioned debate. Called by congressional leaders “an absolute disaster,” and a “poor investment,”, the President’s ambitious initiative is unraveling at the hands of a deficit-conscious Congress, fiscally-strapped states, reluctant private railroad companies and a skeptical public.

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Potential Impact of Gasoline Price Increases on U.S. Public Transportation Ridership, 2011 -2012

Thursday, March 31st, 2011
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AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Experience over the past decade, backed by several notable research studies, shows that price increases in gasoline cause related increases in public transportation ridership. Based on that information, this report provides a model that projects future increases in public transit ridership that will accompany rising gasoline prices.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
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Steven C.F. Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA, spoke with Hon. Scott M. Stringer at Banking on the Future, a conference presented by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, in cooperation with Bernard L. Schwartz, Congressman Steve Israel and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute. The event took place on March 14th, at the William and Anita Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, City University of New York.

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The Fix We’re In For: The State of our Nation’s Bridges

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
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TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
America’s infrastructure is beginning to show its age. Our nation’s roads, highways and bridges have
increasingly received failing scores on maintenance and upkeep…

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Alternative Approaches to Funding Highways

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Tax Receipts Credited to the Highway Trust Fund, Fiscal Year 2010

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
By themselves, fuel taxes cannot provide a strong incentive for people to avoid overusing highways-that is, to forgo trips for which the costs to themselves and others exceed the benefits. This study examines broad alternatives for federal funding of highways, focusing on fuel taxes and on taxes that could be assessed on the basis of the number of miles that vehicles travel.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Maya Wiley, Director, Center for Social Inclusion

Monday, March 28th, 2011
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Maya Wiley is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion…She was a contributing author to the National Urban League’s 2006 State of Black America, and authored a chapter on Race, Equity and Land Use Planning in Columbia, South Carolina recently published in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity, R. Bullard, ed. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2007). She was named a NY Moves magazine 2009 Power Woman.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Hon. Edward G. Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania & Co-Chair of Building America’s Future

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania’s 45th Governor, began a second term of office on January 16, 2007, following a landslide re-election victory. As Governor, Rendell served as chief executive of the nation’s 6th-most-populous state and oversaw a $27.5 billion budget. Governor Rendell is also Co-Chair of Building America’s Future, alongside Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California.

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