Category: Water & sanitation
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 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 [...]
13 September, 2011 (09:47) | Birmingham, Jefferson County, Municipal Finance, Sovereign bankruptcy, Subprime, Theory, US News, Water & sanitation |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith My daddy was a barber And a most unsightly man He was born in Tuscaloosa But he died right here in Birmingham Randy Newman, Birmingham Yesterday’s post introduced the horrible financial crapstorm being endured by Jefferson County, Alabama, whose major city is Birmingham, [...]
12 September, 2011 (11:35) | Birmingham, Jefferson County, Municipal Finance, Sovereign bankruptcy, Subprime, Theory, US News, Water & sanitation, Workouts |
By: David A. Smith In terms of being a perfect dung storm (corruption dung, financial dung, political dung, and human dung) nothing in my experience rivals the fiscal catastrophe that is the Birmingham/ Jefferson County sewer mess, a decade-long crapfest that may culminate this Friday, coincident with the finish of this five-part post, with [...]