http://www.urbantools.org What's new on the UrbanTools web site, and what's news around the world in the effort to bring good tax policy into play. daily 1 2007-08-22T19:11:46Z http://www.urbantools.org/news/new-london-connecticut-and-land-value-tax-a-lively-debate The New London Day is continuing its editorial campaign for land value taxation. No publisher joshua 2010-03-01T19:58:00Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/update-on-the-economy-economic-statistics-quarterly-data-for-u.s.-department-of-the-treasury What's the sick sector of the economy? Readers of this site know... No publisher joshua 2010-02-26T20:39:54Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/nuts-and-bolts-new-zealand-and-a-new-national-land-value-tax The Tax Working Group has been commissioned to fix New Zealand's tax system, which has wilted in the face of global recession. Land Value Tax - at the national level - may be headed for a comeback in the land of Kiwis, the Great Moas and nice Sauvignon Blancs... No publisher joshua 2010-02-03T22:20:15Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/st.-louis-post-dispatch-columnist-time-for-land-value-tax Like Philadelphia, St. Louis has a wage tax blamed for job loss and commercial exodus. Unlike Philadelphia, St. Louis is an isolated pocket in a generally declining part of the nation, losing as much if not more wealth and population to the Sun Belt than even Philadelphia, Hartford or Albany. No publisher joshua 2010-01-30T22:57:30Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/monthly-economic-data-from-the-u.s.-treasury Where is the economy headed, no one really knows, but the US Treasury each month... No publisher joshua 2010-01-25T20:36:52Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/the-foreclosure-crisis-how-it-hurts-our-cities Using the case of one house in foreclosure in Philadelphia, our sister site examines the implications. No publisher joshua 2010-01-20T14:06:00Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/cse-submits-lvt-study-to-berlin-new-hampshire The creator of UrbanTools, the Center for the Study of Economics drove through winter's frigid blanket of white to bring a new idea to a town that needs help. No publisher joshua 2010-01-13T18:30:19Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/kansas-city-here-we-come E. Thomas McLanahan wrote a very brave piece in the Kansas City Star, that will make both left and right unhappy. No publisher joshua 2010-01-11T19:06:16Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/buffalo-ny-and-land-value-tax Those that are not content to let Buffalo NY die are pushing for a serious consideration of LVT. No publisher joshua 2010-01-11T17:49:48Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/beginning-of-2010-lvt-news-dubois-holds-firm Last year, during the depth of the downturn, LVT-centric DuBois Pennsylvania lowered taxes on buildings and kept land steady. This year? No publisher joshua 2010-01-04T14:20:31Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/new-york-city-a-middle-class-losing-ground New York City has been losing its middle class for years: to the Poconos, the Hudson Valley and Long Island. They were usally soon replaced, but that patterns seems to be stalling. Is this a wake-up call for New York? No publisher joshua 2009-12-30T20:29:58Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/end-of-year-lvt-advances-part-2-clairton-pa Clairton debates land value tax: how high should we go? No publisher joshua 2009-12-27T21:43:30Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/end-of-year-lvt-advances-part-1-washington-pa Most cities that use LVT are not increasing taxes this year. Some that are are doing so by raising the tax rate on land values. Good government requires it, but good government also requires cities being able to guide their own destiny on the expense end as well as the revenue end. In Pennsylvania, school districts and counties for the most part are unable to reform the property tax with the land value tax, negotiate sensible contracts, annex land and get rents/taxes from land values that are officially exempt. No publisher joshua 2009-12-27T21:22:30Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/passings-lowell-harriss C. Lowell Harriss a giant of U.S. Economics and a man who liked a good joke. No publisher joshua 2009-12-28T18:40:09Z News Item http://www.urbantools.org/news/cse-vice-president-makes-news-on-massachusetts-npr Albert Hartheimer magisterially lays out the case for land value tax in Massachussetts as a way to right-end the wobbly revenues of the Bay State. No publisher joshua 2009-12-14T19:31:35Z News Item