Farm like a billionaire

Forbes

June 11, 2012 09:00

Billionaires Michael Dell, Donald Newhouse and Michael Price have done it. So, too, has former President George W. Bush. If you’ve got extra acr...

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Charity and taxation

The Economist

June 08, 2012 09:00

“IT MUST be borne in mind,” Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer told the House of Commons in his budget speech, “that in eve...

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Unsung Heroes

Saving Land

June 08, 2012 09:00

As Hurricane Irene tracked from the Carolinas to the Canadian border in August 2011, coverage in the media offered words and pictures focused on flood...

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3 annual property tax payments reduce delinquency

LaFollette School News

June 08, 2012 09:00

Property owners are less likely to be late with their tax payments if they made three installment payments a year instead of two, according to a new a...

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Sonoran Institute director ready to move on after 22 years on job

Arizona Star

June 04, 2012 09:00

Donald Diamond sí, Rosemont Copper no. That's essentially the mantra of conservationist Luther Propst as he prepares to leave his director's job with ...

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The risky business of parking lot creation

The Atlantic Cities

June 01, 2012 09:00

While enlightened businesses want transit so badly they commission studies to build it faster and more cheaply, according to The Washington Post, othe...

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The dreaded density issue

Better Cities & Towns

May 31, 2012 09:00

A number of recent conversations with Stefanos Polyzoides, Howard Blackson, and Matt Lambert regarding density and residential types has me thinking a...

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Do subdivisions designed for conservation actually help wildlife?

High Country News

May 31, 2012 09:00

For millennia, Colorado's Yampa River Valley has followed the rhythms of wildlife mating and migration, the habits of elk and grouse and bear. The arr...

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Save big on homeowners insurance

CNN Money

May 23, 2012 09:00

(Money magazine) -- Reviewing your homeowners policy may not rank high on our annual home-maintenance checklist. Yet following the five steps below wi...

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Politics, Not Policy

Inside Higher Ed

May 22, 2012 09:00

WASHINGTON -- Municipalities need money. Nonprofit institutions have money. Municipalities go after that money. That’s how David L. Thompson, vi...

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Analysis: U.S. cities wrestle with universities for cash

Reuters

May 18, 2012 09:00

(Reuters) - In 1978, after New York City had barely escaped bankruptcy, Mayor Ed Koch went looking for cash from an unlikely source: the city's colleg...

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Waning interest in driving has implications for transportation policy, report says

Progressive Railroading

May 17, 2012 09:00

As Congress grapples with long-term legislation that will fund the nation’s transportation programs, lawmakers might want to consider a recent r...

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Trenque Lauquen observado en América Latina

InfoEcos

May 16, 2012 09:00

An article, in Spanish, about two Lincoln Institute-affiliated researchers who met with authorities of the city of Trenque Lauquen, Argentina, si...

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A framework for using value capture to fund public transit

Mineta Transportation Institute News

May 15, 2012 09:00

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) has released its newest researc...

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Birdbrain scheme - or idea of the century

Dissident Voice

May 15, 2012 09:00

What does a group of 30 “sustainability” professionals do when they run into a pair of two-story-tall common house sparrows? Most of them ...

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Getting Past Megacities: How Peri-Urban Has Become the New City Center

Associated Press/Washington Examiner

May 15, 2012 09:00

May 15, 2012: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. WILSON CENTER - MEGACITIES — Discussion on Getting Past Megacities: How Peri-Urban Has Become the New City Cente...

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Cash-strapped US cities ask tax-exempt universities and hospitals to contribute more money

Seymour Tribune

May 15, 2012 09:00

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze u...

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Tax Foundation urges reforms after ‘arbitrary’ Brown-Prov. deal

Nesi's Notes/WPRI.com

May 15, 2012 09:00

During the long months Providence and Brown University spent discussing money, city officials refused to break out exactly how much cash they wanted f...

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Opening Access to Community Scenario Planning Tools

Montana Associated Technology Roundtable News

May 14, 2012 09:00

Anthony Flint describes http://www.ScenarioPlanningTools.org, an exciting new initiative being launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to con...

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This Just In from CNU20: World Not Yet Saved

Placeshakers and Newsmakers

May 14, 2012 09:00

The Congress for the New Urbanism’s annual convergence of giganto ideas and fine-grained pragmatism wrapped Saturday night with a party in a bar...

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