- Local Governments, Many on Wall Street Line Up Against Muni-Data Bill.
- GFOA Executive Board Approves Accounting Best Practices Focused on Federal Grants Reporting.
- Save Our Stadiums v. Des Moines Independent Community School District – Supreme Court of Iowa holds that total number of voters at the election, rather than total number of votes cast in at-large school board election race, was number to be counted when multiplying by 30% to determine the statutory threshold to trigger public referendum on school district’s proposed athletic stadium and financing plan.
- And finally, Please Dear Lord Let Each Side Have A Cartoon Mascot is brought to us this week by Adorers of the Blood of Christ United States Province v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co LLC, which perhaps the most gobsmacking case name in BCB history. We had just fought our way through the gothic self-flagellation of “Adorers of the Blood of Christ” only to plunge directly into the geo-politico sinkhole of “United States Province.” So now that the entire global consortium of climate advocates has pulled up lame, we’re sending in a horde of geographically illiterate religious fanatics to fight Big Petrochemical and all of its devious transcontinental pipeline machinations? Might not necessarily work, but should be one heck of a show.