Municipal bonds still popular, despite investment’s evolution Special to the Daily News Posted: 5:05 p.m. Saturday, May 15, 2010 Anyone who has lived in Palm Beach for 30-plus years probably remembers J.B. Hanauer, the municipal bond house on Royal Poinciana Way. Back then, muni bonds were hot and rightfully so. They still are today. Along with providing tax-free income to their bondholders, in the early 1980s finding tax-free yields on high-quality bonds of higher than 10 percent was easy....