Featured Bond - Week of April 8, 2019: The City of Houston's $115 Million Hotel Occupancy Tax and Special Revenue and Refunding Bonds Overview Houston is issuing $115 million Hotel Occupancy Tax and Special Revenue and Refunding Bonds Series 2019 through its...
Planning & Development
Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress Part IV: The Need to Successfully Address Public Pensions
In Part IV of ‘Overcoming Economic Downturns and Fiscal Distress’, James Spiotto Discusses the Need to Successfully Address Legacy Costs, So That Funding of Essential Services and Needed Infrastructure Improvement Become the Solution Part III of this series focused on...
Fiscal Distress Myths and Realities Part IX: Solving Fiscal Distress With Economic Development
Part IX of James Spiotto's Fiscal Distress Myths and Realities focuses on solving fiscal distress through economic development and infrastructure Myth: There is Little or Nothing Financially Distressed States and Local Governments Can Do to Improve or Turn Around...
Infrastructure Digest: Investments and Policy in Our Cities and States
MuniNet Guide's August Infrastructure Digest provides some of the more notable news stories relating to state & local infrastructure investments, involving transportation, environmental sustainability, energy, and economic development. Developer seeks...
Infrastructure Digest: Investments and Policy in Our Cities and States
MuniNet Guide provides some of the more notable news stories relating to state and local infrastructure investments, involving transportation, environmental sustainability, energy, and economic development. High-Speed Rail Board to Weigh in on Revised...
Trends in Urban Development: Planning Ideas in the New Millennium
Like anything else in history, urban planning trends come and go with the times. The flight to the suburbs began in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued through the end of the century. But as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, infill development in...
Are Public Libraries Still Relevant in American Communities?
by Mardee Handler Founded in 1833, the Peterborough Town Library in Peterborough, New Hampshire is the oldest tax-revenue supported library in the nation. If you visit its website, you’ll be greeted by an offer to follow the library on Facebook, attend a workshop to...