Infrastructure
How a development tool can increase property taxes
Development-spurring TIF has consequences in Wisconsin’s taxpayer-protecting levy limits, but there’s a way around tradeoff “There’s good TIFs and bad TIFs,” as one economic development figure, the head of the Metropolitan…
Data centers often bring faster connections to world
For some users, microseconds count, so proximity is important; ‘We spent a lot of money bringing in a ton of fiber’ The internet may, in fact, be a worldwide web, but being in the neighborhood of one of its bigger nodes can…
Big federal bucks so far produce a paltry 21 EV charging stations in Wisconsin
Brief pause didn’t help, nor does weak market for electric cars; private sector efforts outstrip government For several years now, Wisconsin officials have been handing out millions of dollars in federal funds, aiming to…
Passenger Rail Wrong Fit for Portland, Metro Study Shows
By Naomi Inman Letter by John A. Charles, Jr. This week, Cascade Policy Institute president John Charles sent a letter to the members of Oregon’s House and Senate about Metro’s Regional Rail Futures Study, prepared in…
$2 Trillion and No One Aboard
By Randal O’Toole Since 1965, when Congress began subsidizing urban transit, taxpayers have spent well over $1.4 trillion on transit. When adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars, that’s more than $2.1 trillion: that’s…
Milwaukee will pay someone to say nice things about The Hop
The City of Milwaukee is willing to pay a new marketing and communications officer for The Hop, its little-used $128 million streetcar, up to $108,000 per year plus benefits that include a pension, deferred compensation plan,…
School-bus Wi-Fi finally gets reined in while pandemic-era home internet subsidies only now dribble out
Two more ways government manages to screw up subsidies There’s more evidence in recent days that the federal government spends money in two ways — too quickly and too slowly. Proof of both stems from programs that were…
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