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Push-Cart Cold Brew
"When Samuel Sveen settled in Bloomington, he channeled his passion for brewing coffee into a new business. He opened the bright-yellow, can't-miss-it Uel Zing cold-brew coffee cart..."
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.
Data Center Bust & Boom
Where is Standards Michigan LLC in this conversation? We have followed development of the stack that governs these "installations" since 1993; nudging technical committees -- NFPA, IEEE, ASHRAE, BICSI, Uptime Institute, TIOA, UL among others. The frontier improvises daily. Today we review relevant, open public consultations even though we know, at present pace, there are no stable standards and probably shouldn't be.