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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Interestingly, in 2018, feeling inadequately appreciated, the Penguins (hockey), Pirates (baseball), and Steelers (football) commissioned an economic impact not unlike the one performed for Salt Lake's NBA All Star Game. Most of the amusement tax (fee on tickets) go to the Pirates baseball team, not the city.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. As such a higher G-fee has not yet been seen, it creates a major policy uncertainty overhanging the mortgage lending system – is a big G-fee increase inevitably coming? taxpaying public. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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