As climate and cybersecurity risks intensify, Jeff Lipton argues it's time for the legal community to lead a new era of municipal disclosure — tightening language, clarifying exposures, and ensuring investor confidence.
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Pennsylvania's budget impasse has surpassed four months. Local governments and schools that rely on state funds are getting frustrated.
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Issuance year-to-date is $493.063 billion, up 9.3% from $451.079 billion over the same period. With issuance estimated at $13.118 billion in the first week of November, 2024's $500-plus billion record should fall within the next week or two.
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"Illinois is just pure mismanagement," Ryan Frost, managing director of the Reason Foundation's Pension Integrity Project, said.
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Next week's issuance is slated to be "substantial" — an estimated $13.1 billion — although that is expected to be met with "solid" November reinvestment capital, J.P. Morgan strategists said.
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As more states move towards resetting their Congressional districts questions arise over how redistricting will affect the balance of power and eventually tax policy.
The Virginia Governor's race could put Democrats in charge of all three branches in the Old Dominion, as Abigail Spanberger goes up against Winsome Earle-Sears who has floated tapping the state's rainy-day fund to prop up Medicaid.
The Trump administration has denied an appeal for $33.7 million in FEMA relief funds for flood damage incurred in western Maryland, which ends the possibility of aid for a state already reeling from job losses.
Tom Falcone of the Large Public Power Council unpacks the massive infrastructure push driven by AI and manufacturing, and the policy hurdles standing in the way.
Photos from The Bond Buyer's 2025 Infrastructure conference.
David Hammer, head of municipal bond portfolio management at PIMCO, joins The Bond Buyer to discuss 2025's volatile muni landscape, credit strength vs. market weakness, and what smart investors are doing next.
The steady demand for municipal bonds in high-risk areas underscores the complex relationship between climate change and financial markets.
Oppenheimer's Head of Public Finance Beth Coolidge and Columbus Auditor Megan Kilgore delve into the future of public finance and human infrastructure on a wide range of topics, from affordable housing and workforce development to public health, climate resiliency, and digital access.
As extreme weather events occur with more frequency across the country, Michael Gaughan, executive director of the Vermont Bond Bank, says municipal bond banks can help smaller communities deal with the effects of them. Gaughan speaks with The Bond Buyer's Lynne Funk on the effects of climate change and how the various levels of government can work together to address it.
The rating agency's review was triggered by the city's move to effectively end plans for a seawater desalination project that has $235 million of bonds outstanding.
This year's portfolio growth will save the city $2.18 billion over the next five years, Comptroller Brad Lander said.
Moody's cited continued liquidity improvements in the ratings lift for the northern California clean energy aggregator.
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Attorneys for the Archdiocese said it is "inevitable" bondholders will be hit with a cramdown.
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Meanwhile, the Brightline West train project has floated a possible debt exchange ahead of its own mandatory redemption later this month.
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The school system, which has an AA underlying bond rating from S&P, was targeted by the Texas Education Agency for a takeover based on academic performance.
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Municipal Capital Markets Group and CSG Advisors were new entrants to the top 10, kicking Caine Mitter and Estrada Hinojosa into the top 15.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will sell $977.6 million of water revenue bonds as it grapples with the impacts of January's devastating wildfire.
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