- Ed. Note: We wish to inform you that this week’s newsletter is in fact, uh, intentionally lame in order to allow you to catch your breath after last week’s monster issue. And we’re sticking to that story.
- Fitch: Where ESG Matters for U.S. Public Finance
- S&P Hits U.S. States With Politicized Credit Scores: WSJ Opinion
- Why Wall Street Can’t Escape the Culture Wars.
- Land Value Capture and Municipal Financing for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Infrastructure and Health Outcomes; RFP
- And finally, Rated R, For The Brutal Dismemberment Of Narrative Logic is brought to this week by Robinson v. Village of Sauk Village, in which a police chase of a stolen vehicle driven by Mark Coffey came to an initial (foreshadowing!) stop in a gas station parking lot in the standard-issue, cinematic fashion. Boxed-in bad guy, five squad cars, guns drawn – “including an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun” and the associated screaming about hands and such. And what happens next? So glad you asked. Does he surrender? Go down in a hail of gunfire? (I know, I know, the suspense is killing me too.) So here’s the opening sentence of the next paragraph of the Supreme Court’s opinion: “A little over one minute after [officer] arrived in the parking lot, Coffey drove away.” He drove away. “Nice to see you fellas, gotta be going.” Spoiler Alert: Coffey’s later shot and killed, so it all works out in the end.