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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 West Bloomfield Patch

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Interview on local government fiscal health

Oct 2, 2014 Capital City Recap with Michael Cohen, WILS Radio 1320am, Lansing

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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 Shelby-Utica Patch

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In the Media

For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 Grosse Pointe Patch

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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 Trenton Grosse Ile Patch

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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 White Lake-Highland Patch

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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 Fenton Patch

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For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 St. Clair Shores Patch

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In the Media

For Better or Worse: Michigan Communities After the Recession

Oct 2, 2014 St. Clair Shores Patch

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For better or worse, Michigan's fiscal health post-recession

Oct 2, 2014

Contact: Greta Guest, (734) 936-7821, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—For the first time in six years, more Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year than those who say they are less able to do so. A...

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Do tax capture districts like township mall developments help or hurt core cities, county residents?

Sep 16, 2014 Mlive.com

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Forthcoming CLOSUP oil, gas tax study highlighted in U.S. News & World Report

Sep 15, 2014

“States are charging less and less to allow oil and gas companies to drill more and more,” writes Alan Neuhauser in the September 9, U.S. News & World Report article, “As oil and gas boom, energy taxes fall.” The piece refers to a forthcoming report...

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Poll: Pa. backs fracking; Corbett's handling of issue, less so

Sep 10, 2014 Philly.com

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States lower energy taxes to attract business as production thrives

Sep 10, 2014 Bakken

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Study: As Oil and Gas Boom, Energy Taxes Fall

Sep 9, 2014 US News & World Report

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Poll: Pennsylvanians Like Shale Development, Want to Tax It, Too

Sep 9, 2014 Natural Gas Intel

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Poll dissects fracking divide in neighboring N.Y., Pa.

Sep 9, 2014 EnergyWire

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Pennsylvanians less likely than New Yorkers to view fracking negatively

Sep 9, 2014 phys.org

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Survey: Pennsylvanians like fracking more than New Yorkers

Sep 8, 2014 stateimpact.npr.org

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Local leaders offer mixed feelings on blue economy

Sep 8, 2014 The Michigan Daily

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Pa. residents like natural-gas drilling, also want to tax it

Sep 8, 2014 Philly.com

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Proximity to Great Lakes a key factor in local officials views

Sep 6, 2014 Holland Sentinel

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Proximity to Great Lakes a key factor in local officials' views

Sep 4, 2014

By Greta Guest ANN ARBOR—Nearly all of Michigan's local leaders see the Great Lakes as a valuable economic resource for the state, but some don't see it that way for their own jurisdictions, according to a survey by the University of Michigan's...

The functioning of democracy across the urban-rural spectrum

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Welcome, and welcome back, to the Ford School

Sep 1, 2014

Members of the Ford School community—welcome, and welcome back! Summer tends to send us all around the globe—for family vacations, for research projects, for service engagements, for internships and jobs—but I love this time of year, when we...

Welcome, and welcome back, to the Ford School

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Bill Becker's climate optimism

Aug 31, 2014 Mountain Town News

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Rabe cited in Forbes on EPA greenhouse gas rules

Jun 3, 2014

Ford School Professor Barry Rabe was cited in Howard Gleckman's June 2 Forbes article "Could EPA's New Greenhouse Gas Rule Open the Door to a New State-based Gas Tax?" "The proposed EPA rules, which Brookings senior fellow Barry Rabe describes as...

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CLOSUP hosts Ann Arbor mayoral candidates

Apr 18, 2014

The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) hosted the four declared candidates in Ann Arbor's mayoral race on Wednesday, April 16. The forum focused on the future of public transportation and prospects for economic development of Ann...

CLOSUP hosts Ann Arbor mayoral candidates

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CLOSUP illuminates local leaders' perceptions of tax-exempt properties

Apr 10, 2014

"It's no overstatement to say that property tax revenues are really the lifeblood of local government. So what do local leaders think about the tax-exempt properties within their borders—the ones that take up municipal services, but are exempt from...

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Informing local leaders about fiscal health and economic development

Mar 28, 2014

Five years ago, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy launched an ongoing survey of the chief elected and appointed officials in every one of Michigan's 1,856 counties, cities, townships and villages, large and small. Among the survey's goals?...

CLOSUP: Local civic discourse heats up in Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula

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University of Michigan poll: Detroit bankruptcy was the right decision

Feb 3, 2014

Despite concerns about Detroit's bankruptcy, 56 percent of local government officials in Michigan said it was the right thing to do, according to a poll by the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. More than half of local leaders...

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