Caitlin Devitt

Cincinnati residents may vote on a new ticket tax this fall to help cover operating costs at two of the city's stadiums.

The Ohio School Facilities Commission last week approved $543 million of capital spending by 13 school districts.

Oakland County will require the cash-strapped city of Pontiac to prepay the county on a monthly basis for police services that it is set to begin providing next month.

Local governments will soon be able to post their budgets online as part of Indiana's effort to boost transparency and public access to information.

CHICAGO — For the first time since 2006, Ohio is enjoying an increase in revenue collections.

CHICAGO — The Michigan State Building Authority Tuesday will begin pricing $647 million of bonds to generate debt service relief and finance various capital projects.

Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. is moving into the health care and senior-living financing sectors with the new hire of a public finance banking veteran.

Novi, Mich.-based Trinity Health has closed its acquisition of Chicago's Loyola University Health System in a deal that totals more than $1 billion.

South Dakota state officials said last week they had reached an agreement on a new gambling contract with the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe just days before the start of a federal trial over the dispute.

Moody's Investors Service raised its rating to Baa1 from Baa2 on $137 million of bonds issued on behalf of the Altru Health System by the city of Grand Forks. The outlook is stable.

Moody's Investors Service last week affirmed its Aa2 and Aa3 ratings and stable outlook on $14.4 billion of outstanding bonds enhanced by the Michigan school bond qualification and loan program.

CHICAGO — Cleveland has sued the Cleveland Clinic over its decision to close a hospital on the city's east side, arguing in part that the prestigious clinic's acceptance of tax-exempt funding from the state requires it to provide equitable services to the city.

CHICAGO — After weeks of escalating debate with Mayor Dave Bing, the Detroit City Council Thursday approved a compromise $3 billion 2012 budget that restores half of the $50 million the council had trimmed from Bing's original proposal.

CHICAGO - Ohio Gov. John Kasich Thursday night is expected to sign into law a $112 billion, two-year all-funds budget that closes a shortfall in part by selling the state’s liquor distribution system and six prisons while paving the way for the lease of the Ohio Turnpike.

CHICAGO — Detroit Public Schools, which is under state receivership, plans to come to market later this year with a $200 million deficit borrowing to erase two-thirds of the red ink in its fiscal 2012 budget.

Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner last week announced a lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for unpaid real-estate transfer taxes as part of the Michigan county's larger effort to combat foreclosures.

Gov. Mitch Daniels Wednesday will tour three Indiana cities to mark the five-year anniversary of Major Moves, the largest infrastructure program in the state's history, which was financed in part with the $3.8 billion Indiana Toll Road lease.

Standard & Poor's this week affirmed its AA rating and stable outlook on Cook County, which has $3.5 billion of outstanding general obligation bonds.

Fitch Ratings hit Detroit with a downgrade, pushing its debt two notches further into junk territory.

The Omaha Public Power District, which runs Nebraska's Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, is responding to the current flooding crisis as one would expect from the fourth-highest rated utility in the United States, credit analysts say.