- S&P Credit FAQ: How S&P Global Ratings Thinks About LIBOR Risks In U.S. Public Finance
- MSRB Email Reminders for Recurring Financial Disclosures.
- Addressing Disclosure and Due Diligence Responsibilities During Forward Delivery Bond Purchase Periods: Nixon Peabody article available on p.7 here.
- Machine Learning Applied to Municipal Scale Interpretation and Extrapolation: (highly wonky) Lumesis article available on p.5 here.
- Chicago Academic Says Muni Market Promotes Inequality.
- NABL U: The Essentials
- Save the Date: MBFA Virtual Fly-In Infrastructure and Municipal Bonds, May 5-12 2021
- Franzen v. City of Atlanta – Court of Appeals rules against citizen intervenors in bond validation proceedings involving tax allocation district (TAD) established for the purpose of redeveloping a blighted area of the city, holding that the Atlanta Board of Education and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners had the authority to commit educational tax dollars derived from the TAD to the redevelopment.
- And finally, Paging Nurse Ratched is brought to us this week by Wyoming State Hospital v. Romine, in which a patient was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility while experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia. “The Hospital placed her on ‘Silent Constant Observation,’ which meant a staff member was to monitor her movements at all times, even when toileting and showering, but was prohibited from engaging in social conversation with her.” Well that sounds promising. Please be sure to let us know – and we’ll pass it along to the appropriate Cuckoo’s Next – if you can envision a scenario more like to unnerve the unnerved.