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Media mentions: BHI in the news |
from NewsLink, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring 1999
Our study, Financing the MBTA, received coverage throughout Massachusetts. The Boston Herald covered the story twice (May 24 & 25). The Herald’s lead editorial of May 25 featured the study: “Tame the T beast before feeding it.” (See reprint on this page.) The Boston Globe cited the study in a May 26 editorial and covered the story on May 24, “Scathing report targets MBTA.”
The Associated Press story appeared in various newspapers including The Patriot Ledger (“New study of T rips fiscal practices, urges overhaul”) and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (“Study claims MBTA is inefficient”). The study was the feature of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s lead editorial of May 25, “Feeding the beast.” The Wakefield Daily Item’s lead editorial of May 26 also featured the study, “Heavy price for a dream.”
David Tuerck appeared on television and radio discussing the MBTA study: WBZ radio’s “David Brudnoy Show” (May 26); WGBH-TV’s “Greater Boston” (May 25); WRKO radio’s “Howie Carr Show” (May 24); and WBZ-TV’s “I-Team” (May 23).
Radio and television stations covering the MBTA story included Fox 25-TV, WBZ-TV, WBZ radio and WLVI-TV.
David Tuerck appeared on WBZ radio’s “David Brudnoy Show” on May 13 opposing an increased minimum wage in Massachusetts.
Boston magazine cited BHI in an article, “For whom the pike tolls,” in the May 1999 issue.
Our letter to the editor, “A middle road for welfare’s least reformed,” appeared in the April 30, 1999 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.
Richard Leonardi of the Buckeye Institute, our sister organization in Ohio, cited BHI in “State’s tax surplus belongs to the people,” in the March 12, 1999 edition of the Columbus Dispatch.
Another BHI letter to the editor, “Evaluating effects of tax credits” appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Texas Edition), February 24, 1999. The letter clarified a point made by Robert Elder, Jr. in his February 10 Wall Street Journal article, “Texas alters analysis of tax cuts to account for economic effect.”
Mass High Tech cited our findings in a February 1-7 editorial, “Income tax rollback makes good economic sense.” Also mentioning BHI was the Boston Business Journal (February 5-11), “Study: Tax cut will boost jobs and capital spending.”
Texas STAMP, which BHI built for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, factored into a February 4, 1999 San Antonio Express News article, “Group says tax cuts to bring more jobs, spending.” Another article, “Capitol Report; In Brief” appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on February 4.
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