Taxing the tax-exempt

The Progress Report

March 14, 2012 09:00

Tax Day is approaching, and we will soon hear a rising chorus of criticism of large corporations such as Verizon and General Electric that don’t...

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Religious network promises, fails to deliver

Charlotte Observer

March 14, 2012 09:00

INDIAN LAND, S.C. Condos. Shops. Outdoor concerts. Internships to prepare students for careers in broadcasting. All were to be part of the Inspiratio...

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Belmont to Ask Local Nonprofits to Increase PILOT Payments

massnonprofit.org

March 12, 2012 09:00

Following in Boston’s footsteps, Belmont next week will ask local nonprofits, which own 31% of the land within its borders, to voluntarily incre...

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Fewer kids living in US suburbs

Voice of America

March 07, 2012 09:00

When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind? Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket...

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Meet Doug Meffert

Delta Dispatches

March 07, 2012 09:00

The National Audubon Society welcomes Dr. Doug Meffert as vice president and executive director for the state of Louisiana. Doug joins a strong Audubo...

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TED's headline initiative: The City 2.0

Citiwire

March 05, 2012 09:00

LONG BEACH — The history of cities over the last century is littered with good intentions, from separated-use zoning to urban renewal to more re...

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Manhattan's population density, past and present

The New York Times

March 05, 2012 09:00

Manhattan was much more crowded in the early 1900s than today, especially in the tenements of the Lower East Side. For example, in 1910, 66 people liv...

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How the 2012 TED Prize, the City 2.0, aims to crowdsource the future

The Atlantic Cities

March 01, 2012 09:00

LONG BEACH – It’s never long at the annual TED conference before attendees feel awash in mind-bending, technology-enabled ideas -- a ...

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Requiem for Redevelopment

San Diego Union-Tribune

February 25, 2012 09:00

Look about San Diego for the legacy of redevelopment — from signature megaprojects to landscaped medians, libraries and housing for the homeless...

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Defending the driving range

Woburn Patch

February 17, 2012 09:00

Questions and concerns about cost of the driving range plan have been raised along with the fact that there are many more urgent projects in the city ...

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Reviews of Property in Land and Regional Planning

Books News

February 16, 2012 09:00

Books News short reviews of Property in Land and Other Resources, co-edited by Elinor Ostrom, and Regional Planning in America, co-edited by Ethan Sel...

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Report: Large Landscape Conservation Key to Nature Preservation

Spotlight on the Region

February 16, 2012 09:00

Conservation needs to be approached at the regional level in order to ensure that wildlife habitat, water supplies and working farms and forests throu...

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Hospitals say $9M CEO pay isn’t a sign they can help Taveras

WPRI.com/Eyewitness News

February 15, 2012 09:00

Rhode Island Hospital’s parent company paid its CEO $9.5 million in 2009, but the industry’s top lobbyist says that doesn’t mean Pro...

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Providence targets Brown in town-gown dispute

MSNBC/Associated Press

February 13, 2012 09:00

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face b...

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Providence urges Brown to pay up

The Wall Street Journal

February 13, 2012 09:00

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—As a nonprofit, Brown University has long enjoyed broad property-tax relief on its regal cluster of brick buildings in the stat...

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Chafee: commercial property tax in Providence is 2nd-highest in nation

The Providence Journal

February 13, 2012 09:00

In his State of the State speech, Governor Lincoln Chafee declared this "the year of the cities and towns" and promised to work to relieve the burden ...

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M. Perry Chapman Jr., 76, innovative college campus planner

The Boston Globe

February 11, 2012 09:00

With a passion for cities and architecture that was fueled by the magazines and books he read and the drawings he composed, M. Perry Chapman Jr. knew ...

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A fair fare affair

Inside Higher Ed

February 11, 2012 08:00

Given the state of the economy, most university administrators are worrying about their institutions’ budgets. But Brown University’s pres...

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If PILOTs can work in Polk, why not in Floyd?

The Rome News-Tribune

February 10, 2012 09:00

A fine-looking gift horse having been given to Polk County by Floyd Countians in the form of a new hospital that will probably be valued at $30 millio...

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Providence seeks higher payments from Brown

The Day

February 09, 2012 08:00

Brown University, the Ivy League school whose endowment grew to $2.5 billion last year, may boost voluntary tax payments to Providence, R.I., after th...

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