Fact Sheet: Growth Gamble
To receive a copy of Story Package #4: Growth Gamble, please contact media@newenglandfutures.org
Editors are free to use the elements of each month's package they select, though the lead article will be critical to set context and tell the major story. Articles may be pared (carefully please!) to fit space. All articles have undergone professional editing.
Project Note: The overarching goal of New England Futures is to serve as "a marketplace of ideas for the future of the region." This phase – media analysis of issues facing New England – is designed to help launch, but operate independently of following stages: (1) a series of citizen dialogues across the six states, and (2) development of regional agenda by a broad cross-section of citizen groups, government, business, educators, and non-profits. For more details see www.newenglandfutures.org\about.
News Budget
Story Package #4 contains the following articles:
- Growth Gamble – Lead Article (2,000 words)
- The Writers, The Project – Credits Box (186 words)
- Towns and Taxes: Growing Dilemma – Second Article (2,000 words)
- New England: America’s Property Tax Champion – Chart
- Six States' Growth, Hope and Despair -- Optional sidebar (823 words)
- Growing Apart? Optional Sidebar (1,037 words)
Pictures and Graphics
All New England newspapers are invited to provide pictures for posting on the site, for use by any interested participating New England papers or broadcast media. When using these photos, please do note the credit line to the originating paper. To submit photos for inclusion on this site, email them to media@newenglandfutures.org.
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Contacts
For a list of people who you can contact for background information on the articles or to interview, please send an email to media@newenglandfutures.org requesting this information.
Resources
This is a sampling of resources directly referenced in the articles on growth. Go to the Best Practices or Resources area of our website for more information on best practices, organizations and resources mentioned in these articles.
- Affordable Housing Campaigns:
New Hampshire Housing Awareness Project -
Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign - Smart Growth Organizations:
1000 Friends of Connecticut
GrowSmart Maine
Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Grow Smart Rhode Island
Vermont Forum on Sprawl - Connecticut Smart Growth Project: CenterEdge Project
- “Connecticut Metropatterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Prosperity in Connecticut” – 2005 study commissioned by the Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Hartford.
- “Housing costs hurting Bay State” – A. D. Makepeace’s Bay State Survey Results
- Mashpee Commons
- Massachusetts Community Preservation Act
- MetroFuture: Making a Greater Boston Region – Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s (MAPC) regional plan for metropolitan Boston
- Orton Family Foundation Community Viz
- “Portland at a Crossroads” – Portland Press Herald series, November 20-24, 2005
- Providence Plan
- South Weymouth Naval Air Station
- “The State of Sprawl” – Hartford Courant series October 9 - November 27, 2005
- State of Vermont: Smart Growth Progress Report, 2003
