- AI Funding Boom Reaches Muni Market With Google-Tied Deal.
- Google-Tied Prepaid Energy Bonds See Flood of Muni Trader Demand.
- Iowa Municipal Gas Utilities Execute $949 Million Prepay Transaction.
- Muni Tobacco Bonds Have First-Ever Default as Smoking Declines.
- Cash Basis Accounting Has a Muni Market Price for Issuers.
- Tax Compliance for Debt Issuers: GFOA Webinar Not included here in the expectation that you will learn anything about tax compliance in a 3-hour webinar; rather that it might be interesting to know what your clients are hearing.
- In re Election Contest of Highland School Bond Referendum – Supreme Court of Iowa holds that contestants’ failure to provide names of persons alleged to have voted illegally in school bond election precluded trial court from considering their challenge to election, on ground that erroneous distribution of ballots including bond measure to precinct voters who did not reside in school district resulted in illegal votes.
- And Finally, When Dinosaurs Walked Among Us is brought to us this week by Degenfelder v. Wyoming Education Association, in which the Supreme Court of Wyoming weighed in on a state program to set up savings accounts to pay for expenses associated with homeschooling. As a victim of homeschooling, the only expense of which I am aware is a kitchen table. Which inevitably comes standard-issue within the august and storied halls of the Smith Household Institute for Advanced Studies. In our (highly-traumatizing) experience, the requisite elements for a home school (other than the kitchen table) are: 1) the complete omission of Biology; 2) the complete omission of Geology; and c) a harried, functionally illiterate maternal pedagogue. Least we’re not bitter…