- GASB Establishes New Guidance on Debt Disclosures, Addresses Direct Borrowings and Direct Placements.
- Fitch Releases Revised U.S. Public Finance Tax-Supported Rating Criteria.
- Criteria FAQ: An Overview Of S&P Global Ratings’ Updated Methodology For Special Assessment Debt.
- Muni Bond Leverage: Risk vs. Reward of Tender Option Bonds.
- Brookings 7th annual Municipal Finance Conference.
- And finally, Because Everyone Knows that Six Tigers is Just too Many is brought to us this week by Hauser v. Ventura County Board of Supervisors, in which a woman applied for a permit to keep “up to” five live tigers on her property, despite the presence of 56 residences and two summer camps in the immediate vicinity. Sure, lives may be lost in the most horrific manner imaginable, but we must weight the cost of up to five tigers mingling with children against the almost-certain alleviation of the neighborhood’s yappy little dog infestation.