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UPMC among nonprofits eager to avoid paying property taxes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 27, 2012 09:00
Most nonprofits that own land are eager to avoid paying property taxes, and UPMC -- the biggest private-sector beneficiary of tax-exempt status in All...
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Mainers missing out on tax and rent refunds
Kennebec Journal
September 27, 2012 09:00
Each year, about half of the estimated 200,000 eligible households in Maine apply for a property tax or rent refund from the state. Given...
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A taxing change
South Oregon Mail Tribune
September 27, 2012 09:00
The League of Oregon Cities is supporting a move to peg a home's property taxes to its market value — rather than its usually lower assessed val...
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Making no cents
HuffPostLive
September 26, 2012 09:00
Most developed countries fund their schools from federal or state revenue, according to need—not local property taxes. Is it time to overhaul ho...
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Review of The Community Land Trust Reader in JAPA
Journal of the American Planning Association
September 26, 2012 09:00
At the end of 2006, the foreclosure crisis became a major issue and contributed to a rise in community land trusts (CLTs). “CLTs were almost alo...
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Europe's great untapped revenue source: property taxes
The Atlantic Cities
September 19, 2012 09:00
PARIS – In the sidewalk cafes of Paris, people jam the tables, nursing coffee and kir. If global financial trauma has bludgeoned the French capi...
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Who owns NH's cities?
BusinessNH
September 19, 2012 09:00
Property taxes are a third rail in NH politics, sparking high intensity debate every time they are raised. It’s not hard to find folks who think...
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Samsung could double Austin investment, depending on incentives, official says
Austin American-Statesman
September 19, 2012 09:00
Samsung Electronics Co., one of the largest taxpayers in Travis County, could double its $13 billion investment here over the next five years, a compa...
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Fallout from the recession hit local governments hard
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
September 13, 2012 09:00
Question: Which unit of local government - cities, towns or villages - was most hurt by the economic collapse? Answer: Wiscon...
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In aiding struggling megacities, can any conference solve these problems?
The Atlantic Cities
September 13, 2012 09:00
NAPLES, Italy – At the beginning of the World Urban Forum VI here last week, a conga line of sorts wound its way past t...
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The state of local government pensions: A preliminary inquiry
Brookings Research
September 13, 2012 09:00
State government pensions have attracted considerable media and scholarly attention. Less well understood are the nation’s 3,196 locally adminis...
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Business reaps benefits through enterprise zones
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 10, 2012 09:00
When Jason Kulpa, CEO of Underground Elephant, needed space for his Internet advertising firm, he was put off by the high cos...
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World's Cities 'Unprepared' For Soaring Urban Populations
NewsRoom America
September 05, 2012 09:00
(Newsroom America) -- New research in a book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Planet of Cities, suggests that most cities of the wor...
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Minnesota less business-friendly on property taxes
Finance & Commerce
August 30, 2012 09:00
Minnesota is moving up the rankings, but not in a good way: Its business property taxes are increasingly becoming some of the highest in the country.&...
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Oregon's broken property tax system needs a reassessment
The Oregonian
August 16, 2012 09:00
A recent editorial in The Oregonian correctly pointed out a number of problems with Oregon's property tax system, but several problems weren't mention...
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Money grab: How cities can recapture investment in public infrastructure
Next American City
August 13, 2012 09:00
In 1978, three real estate developers in Boston set their eyes on a decaying waterfront property south of downtown. The lot, ...
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Trees vs. Power Lines: Will We Have to Choose?
The Atlantic Cities
August 07, 2012 09:00
The notice of the hearing landed in my inbox from the High Street Hill Association, one of many neighborhood organizations on the front lines of local...
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Tax incentives reflect 'the triumph of hope over experience'
Focus on Municipal Assessment & Taxation
August 07, 2012 09:00
Boston, Massachusetts is an example of a city that has dangled millions of dollars in tax breaks in front of companies settling in the Innovation Dist...
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Gentrificação, a new word in Portuguese
Rio Real
August 07, 2012 09:00
Will the city’s more accessible and safer favelas be a laddered version of Santa Teresa, with funky pizzarias and tapas bars, cool sidewalk musi...
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Do subdivisions designed for conservation actually help wildlife?
High Country News
August 06, 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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