MuniLand

In honor of One World Trade Center becoming the tallest building in New York, EarthCam released a time-lapse movie showing the construction progress from 2004 to 2012.

Good Links

CSG: State and local pension total holdings and investments rebound in 2010

Hannah Arendt Center: Pension crisis primer

ICMA: State and municipal bankruptcy, municipal bonds, and pensions

Pew Charitable Trusts: America’s largest 30 cities compared

Bond Buyer: Data shows changes in municipal bond buying patterns

Reuters: Moody’s downgrades $81 billion in municipal debt in the first quarter

MSRB: MSRB adds yield data on interdealer municipal bond trades to EMMA

Reuters: Startups help pension funds save on foreign currency trades

WSJ: Illinois’s $1.8 billion municipal bond offering draws big interest

Hartford Courant: Tax revenues plunge, state budget deficit balloons

Cal Watchdog: Los Angeles teeters on the brink of bankruptcy

@Twitter Talk

UBS Puerto Rico settles with SEC for cool $26m for misleading investors, hiding liquidity crisis; SEC says expect more bit.ly/IucGHR

— JWG Group (@jwg_group) May 2, 2012

Brown will pay Prov $3.9m this fiscal year and $31.5m total over the next 11 years.

— Ted Nesi (@tednesi) May 1, 2012

Today Gov. Corbett’s “asset test” for food stamps kicks in in Pennsylvania. Here’s story of one who lost benefits: pennlive.com/editorials/ind…

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) May 1, 2012

Jefferson County, Alabama readies for austerity with no state help: bloom.bg/ITyEE0 #AL #muni #bankruptcy

— Brian Chappatta (@BChappatta) May 1, 2012

Can Detroit be “rightsized”? Check out these cool videos! fb.me/ZemgqeHd

— Sustainable Cities(@sustaincities) May 1, 2012

The 6 most common civic engagement activities of #localgov bit.ly/IjJKhR

— ICMA (@ICMA) May 1, 2012

I wrote the first article in the B’ham News about Jeffco needing better sewers, so the financial crisis was probably my fault. Sorry

— Justin Fox (@foxjust) May 2, 2012