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Reuters: U.S. Senate passes legislation to strengthen U.S. Postal Service

Reuters: Senator Baucus wants more uniform muni tax breaks

Learn Bonds: Why Obama could be better than Romney for muniland

NYT: Are for-profit debt collectors operating in non-profit hospitals?

CBPP: House bill would cut Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico by about $5.5 billion through 2019

Tax Foundation: Glendale, crushed by costs of hockey team, proposes raising sales tax to highest in nation

Chicago Tribune: Illinois county judge says “Amazon-tax law” unconstitutional

@Twitter Talk

Mike Konczal  @rortybomb Negative rates are markets telling gov “find productive ways to invest this for us” – how about educating young people?

Bob Nelson @BNels22 BABs started munis down the path toward opening #muniland to global FI investors who would’ve arbed away yield disparity.

Lord Abbett & Co.LLC ‏ @lordabbett What are the most appealing segments of the municipal bond market now? Find out in this video with Dan Solender http://bit.ly/IqFfFX

Bloomberg State/Muni @StatesAndCities Animal Abusers Would Be Named, Shamed Under Bills in 25 States:  http://bloom.bg/K3CZBk

Stateside Associates  @StatesideAssoc Gov. @BrianSandoval announces that Nevada has reached an agreement w/ @Amazon on the collection of sales tax http://bit.ly/Iprs2e

Tim Maniccia  @tmaniccia Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police unveiled a 10-point plan that aims to save money without cutting staff.http://www.theindychannel.com/news/30948850/detail.html

Fitch Ratings  @FitchRatingsPF Detroit’s consent agreement, budget need sustainability http://ow.ly/avvBV

Evgeny Morozov  @evgenymorozov UK: Police officers set to tweet on the beat with own Twitter accounts http://flpbd.it/LE7jJ