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On January 31, 2008, Steve Gardner was interviewed on 90.7 KWMU's St. Louis on the Air. Gardner was part of a panel that spoke about property taxes in St. Louis County.

In November and December 2007, Steve Gardner, Director of PPRC's Public Finance Initiative, was mentioned in stories about tax assessments. The stories ran on November 12 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and on November 14 in the O'Fallon Community News. He was also quoted in a piece that ran in the December issue of the Spanish Lake Word, as well as in a column about tax assessments in the December 9 edition of the Post.

On April 19, 2007, Steve Gardner was featured in an interview with KMOX (1120 AM) radio's Megan Lynch. Gardner translated the statewide property tax assessment issue into layperson's terms. »Listen to the interview here.

The Public Finance Initiative's Steve Gardner, director, recently contributed a feature article to The Missouri Municipal Review . Titled "Disparate Property Assessments Affect All Municipalities", the article can be found in the February/March 2007 issue. To obtain a copy of the article, contact the publication at info@mocities.com.

In February 2007, Steve Gardner wrote an article about the affect of property assessment on municipalities. The story was featured in the February issue of The Missouri Municipal Review.

On July 19, 2007, the work of the Public Finance Initiative was highlighted in an Associated Press article. PPRC's Steve Gardner was interviewed regarding Missouri's property tax assessment policies, as well as the inequities in the way tax values are assessed. The article focuses on the impact on the Missouri's public school funding. >> Read the article here.

On January 4, 2007, the Steve Gardner testified in the Cole County Circuit Court in a trial over Missouri's public school funding. The basis of his testimony was his research and recent findings, which were published in November, 2006. The court case and Gardner's research were cited in several news articles: