Assembly Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies said the plans added another dimension to the Swansea Waterfront development and would help promote it as a vibrant place to live and work.
Similarly, that February the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued a study lowballing the dimension of the local-debt situation.
The economic factors are only part of the story: many people also detect a strong political dimension to the legislation, in that it opens another front in the ongoing battle across the Midwest to limit the power of unions.
And now, we are seeing not only the political and economic toll that is being taken on the people of Zimbabwe, but the toll in the humanitarian dimension as this cholera epidemic has broken out.