Category: Jefferson County
20 December, 2012 (14:53) | Bankruptcy, Bonds, Capital markets, Infrastructure, Innovations, Jefferson County, Law, US News, Workouts |
By:David A. Smith Bad facts make bad law. – Litigation proverb And my word, are the facts bad here The law is a continent endlessly being explored. Beachheads are established; some areas are colonized, gridded and platted, and well settled. As the society of settled law expands, the frontiers of unknown law [...]
25 April, 2012 (13:08) | Bankruptcy, Birmingham, Infrastructure, Jefferson County, Municipal Finance, Sewer, Sovereign bankruptcy, Uncategorized, US News, Water & sanitation |
By: David A. Smith Time to negotiate with the zombie? Bankrupt county speaks with decaying tongue? Instead of blasting its head off? Do you feel … undead? Except, quite possibly, you can’t – and if you can’t, then perhaps you’d better negotiate, as Jefferson County’s creditors are finding out in [...]
15 November, 2011 (11:57) | Alabama, Bankruptcy, Birmingham, Cities, Infrastructure, Jefferson County, Municipal bankruptcy, US News, Workouts |
By: David A. Smith So far has the actual use of nuclear weapons retreated from public consciousness that it has lost its reality, and hence its power to shock, with everything from senatorial procedures to union negotiations described as weighing a ‘nuclear option.’ But last week, in Birmingham, the phrase seems justified as it [...]
15 September, 2011 (10:01) | Birmingham, Jefferson County, Municipal Finance, Sovereign bankruptcy, Subprime, Theory, US News, Water & sanitation, Workouts |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 2 and Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Wife’s named Mary But she’s called Marie We live in a three room house With a pepper tree Randy Newman, Birmingham Three days into our grim tale (only two to go to finish the post [...]
14 September, 2011 (09:53) | Birmingham, Jefferson County, Municipal Finance, Sovereign bankruptcy, Subprime, Theory, US News, Water & sanitation, Workouts |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Got a big black dog Whose name is Dan Lives in my backyard in Birmingham He is the meanest dog in Alabam’ Get ’em, Dan Randy Newman, Birmingham By now, two days into the story, and with only [...]