Chip Barnett is a journalist with almost 50 years of professional experience. He started his career at the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., working his way up from back-shop compositor to Senior News Editor. Barnett later worked for Thomson Reuters in Manhattan, covering state and local government finance as a Reporter and later Executive Editor for TM3.com and as Editor in Charge of Municipal Finance for Reuters News. Later, he was the Editor of Municipal Finance Today at SourceMedia. Barnett has also worked for DebtWire/Municipals and has written about commercial real estate in South Florida and the Midwest for both The Real Deal and Globe Street. Barnett is currently a Reporter at The Bond Buyer.
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The recommendation would build reserves toward a target of 16% of tax revenues in order to prevent drastic service cuts during a recession.
May 23 -
The city of 55,000 is the first to be slapped with the most severe Tier IV designation of the state's Municipal Accountability Review Board oversight program.
May 20 -
Almost $25 million of bond funds provided for school technology and security enhancements to state school districts this year from the 2014 Act.
May 19 -
Moody’s Investors Service raised the city's rating, noting noted a trend of strong finances, a diverse economy and a willingness to tackle pension issues.
May 18 -
Laura Rabinow of the Rockefeller Institute of Government talks with Chip Barnett about New York State’s $4.2 billion environmental bond referendum. Find out how the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022 got on November's ballot and what it will actually do. (20 minutes)
May 17 -
Fitch Ratings revised its outlook on the city's AA-minus rating to positive ahead of a $1.08 billion general obligation bond sale.
May 13 -
The Louisiana House passed a bill to limit firms that "discriminate" against the firearms industry from government business. A similar bill was vetoed last year.
May 11 -
The special district formed for the Walt Disney Company in Florida is to be dissolved under a new state law driven by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
May 10 -
Mayor Jorge Elorza said the reworked bond proposal was better than the larger one put before the state Legislature last year.
May 10 -
“The racial wealth gap is wide and growing and we need innovative policies like Baby Bonds to begin addressing it right away," says Shira Markoff of Prosperity Now.
May 6
