- Municipal Advisors Seek Changes, Clarifications on MSRB’s MA Rule.
- MSRB to Consolidate Key Fair-Dealing Obligations for Municipal Securities Dealers.
- SIFMA to SEC: Don’t Approve MSRB Fair-Pricing Rule.
- Dealers Want More Best-Ex Guidance.
- Chicago Credits Outreach for Strong Showing on GO Issue.
- GASB Toolkit Helps State and Local Governments Implement New Pension Standards.
- WSJ: Massachusetts Streamlines Bond Sales for Smaller Investors.
- Pension Issues: Remaining Implementation Challenges and New Audit Guidance.
- New SEC Cooperative Enforcement Initiative.
- Moody’s: Detroit GO Litigation Unlikely to Have National Legal Implications for GO Debt.
- And finally, not only is Elwood v. City of Chicago the greatest case name since we covered Sherman v. City of Atlanta, it’s also a delightful caper in which the police, investigating a series of letters threatening an imminent shooting at a local school in retaliation for the killing of a wild cougar, arrest the raving lunatic in whose backyard said cougar was shot only to discover that yet another nut job has taken credit for the letters. Note to self: begin more correspondence with, “Dear Cougar Killers (aka. Chicago PIG Police), Prepare to DIE like the Cougar you killed.”
