- Program Note: We’ll be taking next week off to spend some much-dreaded time with our families. We’ll be back on the 30th to wrap up the year.
- S&P: U.S. Local Government Rating Review Shows Varied Economic Conditions Being Met With Sound Financial Underpinnings.
- S&P: U.S. State and Local Government Credit Conditions Forecast: For 2015, the Future is Now.
- MSRB Adopts Best-Execution Rule to Enhance Fairness and Efficiency in the Municipal Securities Market.
- SIFMA Submits Comment Letter to MSRB on MSRB Rule G-20 relating to Gifts, Gratuities and Non-cash Compensation.
- S&P Request for Comment: U.S. Public Finance Waterworks, Sanitary Sewer, and Drainage Utility Systems: Methodology and Assumptions.
- NABL Submits Comments to IRS on Purpose Investment Valuation.
- Nabors, Giblin deviously waits till winter to advertise a public finance associate position in sunny, sunny Tampa, Florida.
- And finally, condo association engages in ruinously expensive litigation to (rather uncharitably) prevent sewer district from running a trunk line across its property, only to eventually be stuck with both a sewer line and a $1,350 payment for the easement, which presumably more than covered its attorneys fees. Is there such a thing as a Pyrrhic Defeat?
