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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

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Poster board from the 2014 meetings. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said.

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

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Although the Allegheny Institute of Public Policy argues that the numbers aren't credible (" Pittsburgh teams fight back: ineffectively "), making the point that the UPMC Medical System, Carnegie-Mellon University and other organizations have significantly greater impact.

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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?

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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). The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009). German VV as the model for DC.

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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?

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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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