- GASB: Understanding Costs and Benefits: Fiduciary Activities.
- MSRB’s Request for Comment on Retrospective Review of Primary Offering Practices. and MSRB Release on Offering Practices Draws Frosty Reception From Some.
- SEC Finds Widespread Compliance Failures Among Municipal Advisors. and MSRB Launches Compliance Workshop Series.
- S&P: Securitization Plan Won’t Affect Chicago GO Debt Rating. and Fitch Teleconference Replay: Chicago Sales Tax Securitization Corp, IL.
- S&P Criteria FAQ: Our Evolving Approach To Special Tax And Priority-Lien Tax Debt.
- MSRB: Municipal Securities Provisions of the “Tax Cut and Jobs Act” and Muni Groups, Upset by House Tax Bill, Pin Hopes on Senate.
- NABL Ethics Teleconference: Risk – The Game of Reduction of Professional Exposure, Loss Prevention, and Bond Counsel Liability.
- And finally, Well Who Wouldn’t Be Aggrieved? is brought to us this week by Manwaring Investments, L.C. v. City of Blackfoot, in which owner of commercial building challenged the state and federal constitutionality of his tiny municipality’s method of assessing wastewater fees. Case went all the way up to the state supreme court. That rifle-like crack you heard was the whiplash-inducing double-take performed by your editor upon reading that the entire monthly assessment for the building in question was the whopping total of $60.08 Sixty dollars and eight cents. Uh, it’s the principle?