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REALonomics	REALonomics is a real estate industry blog focused on new business models in the consumer centric era. It's the search for new real estate model math.

Can the Davenport Promise be Kept?

Posted by Superliberty on February 4th, 2009

A closer look at the W.E. Upjohn Institute ‘Review of the Davenport Promise Concept’

Page 3: “The annual inflation rate during the period is 2.5 %.”
Comment: The 2009 Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) for local government Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retirees and Social Security recipients was 5.8%.

Page 3: “College tuition will increase at a rate that is no faster than inflation [i.e. 2.5%].”
Comment: Here are the tuition & fees and % increases for IA resident, 12 or more credits, at Iowa State University (ISU) and University of Iowa for the last ten years:

—Year—————–ISU*—————-U of Iowa**
2009/2010: $6650.70 ( 4.57 %)—– $6824 …

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Davenport Taxpayers gain a new friend.

Posted by Superliberty on February 4th, 2009

February 3, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Nelson, Chairman 563-340-2597 or Email opt4better@mchsi.com

Newly Formed Taxpayer Watchdog PAC to Oppose Davenport Promise Program

A news conference will be held at the Davenport Library, 321 Main Street, Davenport, IA on Friday, February 6, at 10:30am to outline the opposition to the Promise Proposal.

A non-partisan PAC, Opt4Better, has been formed to promote limited government and lower taxes in the Iowa Quad Cities. “There is a need for regular, reasoned opposition to programs expanding the scope of local government, and increasing the burden on Davenport’s taxpayers,” says Mark Nelson, founder of Opt4Better. The PAC will follow …

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Blog Probes Real Estate Models

Posted by CityBlogIA on March 30th, 2008

www.REALonomics.net is a blog that is asking serious questions about where the real estate industry is going. More specifically, REALonomics poses challenges to the broker/owners to adopt models that will allow their organizations to become more transparent.REALonomics.net advocates that the industry open up the property information portals to consumers and upgrade its approach to how it is interacting with the consumer by implementing more social networking such as www.CityBlogUSA.com, a community blogging network for every city in the USA.Visit www.REALonomics.net.

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