Romney has little municipal bond interest income, which means he paid more Massachusetts state taxes than others customarily do.
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Public employment, which had become bloated (Portugal, with a smaller population than Ohio, has 308 municipal governments) will shrink under a new policy of hiring only one new person for every two who retire.
The recent rise in municipal defaults has again surfaced the debate as to what constitutes a municipal bond default.
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While a great start, most of this success has been in municipal buildings and schools, where long-term ownership and credit stability pose fewer challenges.
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Assuming that one has broadly diversified municipal bond holdings, the threat would not seem to come from a biblical-scale wave of defaults. (I must admit that we have no data on muni defaults during biblical times.) The bigger threat to a broadly diversified muni portfolio would seem to be the typical market cycles of run-up followed by correction followed by run-up.
EDF's quest for partners has found several Italian municipal suppliers interested in buying into Italenergia.
His municipal empire has been hacked back, although it still remains the biggest business in the city.
The presence of compelling offshore-wind resources close to major U.S. coastal cities has attracted attention from municipal planners and decision makers in New York City.
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Municipal finance has only been this bad during the Great Depression.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered a probe into the incident and has suspended a deputy municipal commissioner and a senior police officer until the investigation is completed, Mr. Malvi said.
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has sued the state in Rhode Island Superior Court, saying the pension changes violated public workers' contract rights.
Considerable media attention has been given to the municipal bond market in recent weeks.
Until now, the municipal bond market has been the mom and apple pie of financial markets, wholesome, enduring, and unexciting.
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He has testified before Congress on municipal defaults and municipal reform legislation.
Like the mortgage market, the municipal bond market has morphed into its own new era of highflying finance, adjustable-rate loans and complex securities.
Fortunately, since mid-January, the municipal bond market has stabilized quite nicely.
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Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
Watkins' one-person energy shop, Watkins Pencor , is a principal owner in Masada Oxynol , a Birmingham company that has devised a way to turn municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.
Germany's reunified capital still revels in the duplicated cultural accoutrements of the two cities it once was: it has three opera companies, four municipal theatres, eight orchestras, including the great Berlin Philharmonic, and more than 140 museums.
Rather than using the crisis to damn the inefficiency of municipal workers, he has become their champion, arguing that severe cuts would do more to harm the city by damaging services than higher taxes would by raising costs.
What American has ever bought a house or a municipal bond without contemplating the tax benefits?
The first quarter of this year has been eerily quiet and subdued for municipal bond new issuance.
The macro numbers on employment and economic activity are improving and there has even been a backlash against the municipal bond doomsayers in recent weeks.
King Abdullah in 2011 allowed women to vote and run for office in municipal elections, and he has called for more education and employment opportunities for them.
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Harrisburg is in default on its debt and has been effectively shut out of the municipal-debt market, which cities and states use to finance everything from building schools to paving roads.
Figures also showed the total amount of municipal waste generated in Wales has generally decreased, with the tonnage 3% lower for April to June 2012 than for the same quarter in 2011.
The charge, only the second one made against a state for its public pension disclosures, stems from a new focus on the municipal bond industry, which has historically received far less scrutiny than the private sector.
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