Public Private Partnership

A Community Bands Together to Save Itself: Part 1

Willa Seldon | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Public-Private Partnership, Community Collaboratives, Memphis Tennessee, Memphis Community, Memphis Safety, Neighborhood Watch, Community Development, Memphis, Impact News
Willa Seldon

In a once-grim apartment complex outside Memphis, Tenn., 95 percent of the people stayed put and signed a lease agreement as part of a community-wide change effort. They've seen an 80 percent overall decline in crime.

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How Do We Move Mountains?

Sabrina Stevens | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Appalachia, American Federation of Teachers, Poverty, West Virginia, Rural America, Schools, Education Reform, Public-Private Partnership, Public Education, Unions, Video, Education News
Sabrina Stevens

Here's hoping that 2012 will be the year when we stop abandoning schools and people as "failures" and begin reconnecting communities to build long-term educational, social and economic success.

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Saving New York City in 1975: Carey Could Teach Congress Today

Robert L. Dilenschneider | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Governor Carey, Congress, Public-Private Partnership, Debt Crisis, Super Committee, Budget Crisis, New York City, New York Economy, Economy, New York Economic Crisis, Politics News
Robert L. Dilenschneider

The nation's current crisis mirrors the situation 36 years ago when New York City teetered near financial collapse, unable to borrow from a banking community that correctly believed the city was broke.

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A New Debt Ceiling Proposal: a Future Fund

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Public-Private-Partnership, Infrastructure, Small Business Administration, Debt Ceiling, American Infrastructure Financing Authority, National Infrastructure Bank, John Kerry, Mark Warner, Clean Energy, Lindsey Graham, Barack Obama, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Competes Act, Politics News
Michael Likosky

The idea of shared sacrifice as a public value is fine. However, why should many Americans, who have become accustomed to shouldering most of the sacrifice, get excited about taking on additional burdens?

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Ed Rendell: Hardest Working Man in Infrastructure

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gilded Age Railroads, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, p3s, National Infrastructure Bank, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Building America's Future, Meet the Press, National Governors Association, Council on Competitiveness, American Society of Civil Engineers, Stephen Goldsmith, Rachel Maddow Show, Public Works, Howard Dean, Clean Energy Bank, Governor Ed Rendell, Public-Private Partnership, NGA Strengthening Our Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future Initiative, European Investment Bank, Mckenna Long & Aldridge, Politics News
Michael Likosky

Governor Rendell has been a tireless advocate of an infrastructure-driven recovery within the NGA and also as co-leader of Building America's Future.

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Secretary Chu's Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Infrastructure Bank, Ed Rendell, Clean Energy Bank, Howard Dean, Aig, Jeb Bush, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, European Investment Bank, Council on Competitiveness President Obama, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Public-Private Partnership, p3, Newt Gingrich, Reason Foundation, Export-Import Bank, Business News
Michael Likosky

The Clean Energy Bank is essential to deliver on President Obama's mandate to "make sure that we are investing in what's required for long term growth."

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A Final Hurdle to Healthcare Reform: Politicians

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Single Payer System, Health Care Refom, Public-Private Partnership, Max Baucus Health Care Reform Hearing, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

The first question our politicians have to realize when reforming health care is: who will pay for the millions that cannot afford medical care and treatment today? The answer: Uncle Sam.

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