- NABL Releases Paper on Reinvestment Agreements.
- Fitch Launches Analytical Sensitivity Tool for State & Local Governments V2.0
- Fitch Updates U.S. Tax-Supported Rating Criteria.
- Department of Labor’s “Novel” Reading of the Davis-Bacon Act Fails Again.
- Authorizing Pay for Success Projects: A Legislative Review and Model Pay for Success Legislation.
- 3 Steps Economic Developers Should Take to Prepare for GASB 77 Tax Abatement Disclosures.
- D.C. And IRS In Muni Bond Tax Dispute Tied To Oyster School P3.
- Becker v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. – Revenue bond holders bring action against indenture trustee for negligence and breach of fiduciary and contractual duties to the bondholders by failing to maintain perfected security interests in property securing the bonds; you’ll want to take a closer look at this one.
- And finally, Highest and Best Use is brought to us this week by Pawn 1st, LLC v. City of Phoenix, in which the city’s zoning board went above and beyond the call of duty to allow a property owner to replace a now-defunct strip club (R.I.P.) with a pediatric oncology clinic. Wait, no, with a pawn shop. Sorry, we always get those two mixed up. For extra credit, see John Oliver’s brilliant (AND EXTREMELY PROFANITY-LADEN) explication of the Puerto Rico debt crisis. NSFW.