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"It's hard to wrap our heads around it," stated Ben Forman, the research director at Mass Inc.- an independent think tank. He says the MBTA continues to borrow just to make ends meet. It's like someone opening a new credit card, only to make the minimum payment on an existing one. "The T has two problems. One is that it can't pay for it's normal cost every year, and the other is that it hasn't done the maintenance it needs," Forman says.

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Report: 10,000 more prison beds needed by 2020

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State report debunks “wind turbine syndrome”

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AG renews call for revisions to Green Communities Act

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The Gateway Cities caucus got off to a strong start for 2012 with a very well attended presentation from Ted Carmen, representing the Public Private Partnership Committee of the Urban Land Institute. Ted made a powerful argument that the state’s historic tax credit should be recognized first and foremost as contributing to job creation. Citing research that suggests every two units of housing produced above the state’s business as usual level leads to one new job, Carmen demonstrated that the historic tax credit is at least revenue neutral under conservative assumptions.
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