Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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The hires come a month after Barnes announced it had hired nearly all of Ballard Spahr's top-ranked public finance team.
March 11 -
The rules could lengthen the procurement timeline for some projects.
March 10 -
Brightline asked S&P to withdraw its rating after the latest downgrade.
March 6 -
Jeffrey Puzzullo is the fourth person to plead guilty in the now-notorious Legacy Cares case.
March 6 -
Could they affect state lottery-backed bonds?
March 5 -
The California complaint was filed 12 years ago.
March 4 -
Eleven states and dozens of local governments have active lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
March 2 -
The fund plans to liquidate remaining assets, although a class-action lawsuit may delay final distributions.
February 27 -
The "ratepayer protection pledge" requires tech companies to cover the costs of powering data centers.
February 25 -
The drinking and clean water state revolving fund programs and other water infrastructure programs are up for reauthorization this year.
February 24 -
Money is flowing into mutual funds and buyers are snapping up deals.
February 20 -
Ballard has shuttered its decades-old public finance practice.
February 19 -
The Trump administration has released some funds but work on the megaproject remains halted.
February 18 -
Iowa, Vermont, Wisconsin and the US Virgin Islands are among the least-friendly governments for P3 advocates.
February 17 -
The agency's Disaster Recovery Fund has a sufficient balance for the near term but a funding lapse will translate into longer response times to local and state governments, FEMA's associate administrator warned.
February 13 -
The price drops follow a lawsuit filed Friday by bondholders alleging the mall's owners colluded with the city of East Rutherford to lower the property assessment.
February 11 -
Federal grants and loans account for $15 billion of the $16 billion Hudson Tunnels project.
February 10 -
The downgrade reflects ongoing underperformance in ridership and revenues relative to Kroll's expectations.
February 9 -
States have been slow to put the money to work.
February 5 -
In rural areas, "even modest rate increases can force low-income households to choose between water service and other basic necessities," Matt Odermann from the National Rural Water Association told senators Wednesday.
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