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 commonwealth revamped its P3 law last year in the wake of a court ruling striking down a tolled bridge program.
October 17 -
As the program inches through the federal appropriation process, Texas lawmakers have allocated state funds and created a five-county district with taxing power.
October 16 -
Despite the sticker shock of rising rates, yields in fact are at average levels for over the last 30 years, panelists said at the GFOA's MiniMuni conference.
October 13 -
The proposed spending plan includes the first chunk of money from the city's new casino, which will support underfunded police and fire pensions.
October 11 -
A rising number of states levy a tax or fee on electric vehicles, but a new Senate bill would enact the first federal tax.
October 10 -
The two-day meeting in Atlanta kicked off what the mayors say will be a regular meeting to promote more public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects.
October 6 -
At stake is nearly $800 million in Federal Transit Administration funds.
October 5 -
Public finance advocates are examining House speaker candidates to see which ones have local and state experience.
October 4 -
Investors and ratings analysts look beyond the bevy of local hospitality taxes backing MetPier's debt to the state sales tax that acts as the paper's ultimate security.
October 3 -
The Amtrak-Texas Central proposal to build high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston would take land "from American citizens and put it under the control of a Japanese company," a pair of Texas Republican representatives told the FRA.
September 29
