- SEC Continues Public Finance Enforcement Agenda Two Recent Cases Filed: Orrick
- IRS Issues New Proposed Regulations on the TEFRA Public Approval Requirement: Greenberg Traurig
- IRS Issues New Proposed TEFRA Regulations: Nixon Peabody
- The Future For the Municipal Bond Tax Exemption is Bright Following the Release of the Unified Framework For Tax Reform.
- Good Jobs First Subsidy Tracker Makes GASB 77 Data Accessible.
- MSRB: Issuers Shouldn’t Choose Underwriter’s Counsel.
- Foreign Cash Fleeing Low Yields Flows Into U.S. Muni Bonds.
- What Are Cities Spending Big On? Increasingly, It’s Debt.
- And finally, Then Again, I’ve Been to Yonkers is brought to us this week by Lockwood v. City of Yonkers, in which a firefighter trainee was “instructed to jump, head first, out of a second story window approximately ten to eleven feet off the ground.” Which he did. Gravity – cruel taskmistress that she is – interceded and he “fell directly onto the concrete ground below.” Simply dumbfounding. Peer pressure? Hazing? You tell me. “But, mom, all the cool kids want to be Yonkers firemen!”