When Should an Issuer of Tax-Advantaged Bonds Use the Hold-the-Offering-Price Method to Establish the Issue Price of the Bonds?
MSRB Webinar: Municipal Advisor Solicitor Guidance.
SEC and MSRB to Hold Webinar on Series 50 Exam for Municipal Advisors.
MSRB Files Amendments to Modernize Customer Account Transfers.
S&P Global Ratings Announces New Green Evaluation Service.
Local Governments’ Hidden Reason to Oppose Tax Cuts: Bank Loans.
Rising Seas May Wipe Out These Jersey Towns, but They’re Still Rated AAA.
S&P: The Top 10 Management Characteristics of Highly Rated State and Local Borrowers.
Successful Investing in Charter Schools Part III: Market Advancements
And finally, the Supreme Court of Colorado this week took up the issue of whether “Blunt Wraps” qualify as “tobacco products” for tax purposes in Colorado Department of Revenue v. Creager Mercantile Co., Inc. The court helpfully informed us that, “Like traditional rolling papers, Blunt Wraps are designed to be filled with tobacco, marijuana, or other smoking material and smoked.” And then this bombshell: “See generally Redman, How to Roll A Blunt, on Whut? Thee Album (Columbia Records 1992).” Wait, the Blue Book now covers the proper citing of rap artists? Mad props to the clerks who snuck this into a Supreme Court opinion. But what on earth were the Justices smoking? Oh. Never mind.

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