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Sweet Apple Pork Chops & Maine Potatoes
'The University Meat Shop on East Campus at the corner of 38th and Fair Streets is an USDA-inspected meat retail store selling a selection of beef, pork, lamb, goat, smoked and slicing sausages, ready-to-eat snack sticks, and much more'
Tax-Free Bonds
How do tax-exempt municipal bonds become classrooms, laboratories, hospitals, stadiums, district energy systems, and libraries? Today--ahead of the August primary elections in the United States (when bond referenda appear on ballots -- we explore fiscal runaway with particular interest in the instruments that finance construction of the real assets. We recap what we have been doing for 30-odd years placing downward pressure on life-cycle cost.
Current Projects
An update on current FASB projects at a glance, including next milestones, updates and expected issuance timelines. Noteworthy: Accounting and Disclosure of Software Costs, Accounting for Government Grants, Statement of Cash Flows, among others.
Educational Settlement Finance
We follow listings of a few offerings; examining their claims about new building construction, operations, maintenance and related budgetary "sausage-making". Large chunks of the US population want to retire on the yield thrown off by these instruments. School bonds can partially protect retirees from the looming tax hammering to be administered by partisans of Leviathan government.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
School Bonds Michigan
Most buildings on campus begin twice -- first in the bond market, and later on the construction site. Today we examine referenda that will appear on next Tuesday's primary elections.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Central Utility Plant — $407.8 million
The most important buildings on a university campus are often the ones students never enter. Project overview by Provident -- a national nonprofit organization working across sectors to deliver essential community infrastructure. The new combined heating and cooling plant will supports the expanding Albert B. Chandler Hospital and "campus growth" financed by Series 2026A tax-exempt revenue bonds.