- IRS Releases Model Closing Agreements for Tax-Exempt Bonds: Squire Patton Boggs
- GASB Publishes New Implementation Guidance to Assist Stakeholders With Recent Pronouncements.
- MSRB Seeks Comment on Potential Rulemaking to Improve Transparency of Direct Purchases and Bank Loans.
- House Introduces Public Employee Pension Transparency Act Bill.
- A New Twist on ‘Pay for Success’ Programs.
- Moody’s Joins Effort to Standardize Green Bond Market: Ballard Spahr
- Jones v. Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Ben. Fund of Chicago – Supreme Court of Illinois holds that amendments to City Pension Code that reduced value of annual annuity increases, eliminated them entirely for certain years, postponed time at which they began, and completely eliminated compounding component violated State Constitution’s pension protection clause.
- And finally, this week brings us: the Northeast Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission, which should seriously consider updating its name; a police officer who reached into his squad car to answer the radio and managed to head butt the door frame so hard that he broke his spine (We gave this man a gun?); and a business establishment that rolled up a glorious blend of hypocrisy, irony, and audacity by refusing to apply for a local business license, arguing that the local code was preempted by the Controlled Substances Act – the very law it intended to flagrantly violate by operating a marijuana dispensary (Insert “What were they smoking?” joke here.)