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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As the MTA works toward a post-pandemic future, Kevin Willens, formerly co-head of public finance at Goldman Sachs, becomes its chief financial officer.
January 28 -
Moody’s also assigned an A1 to the authority's $950 million of forward delivery refunding bonds.
January 27 -
S&P raised the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Tennessee's senior-lien airport revenue bonds issued for the Nashville International Airport to A-plus.
January 27 -
Cancellations due to fears of omicron are putting a damper on cruise bookings, says Fitch's Emma Griffith, who adds there is still a lot of pent-up demand.
January 26 -
John Hallacy of John Hallacy Consulting LLC sits down with Chip Barnett to talk about what the municipal bond market will face in 2022. He discusses inflation, new issuance volume, and the future of infrastructure this year amid the lingering effects of COVID and Omicron. (19 minutes)
January 25 -
As New York's new City Council continues to organize, the new mayor, Eric Adams, says how he will achieve his "paycheck in crypto" promise.
January 21 -
The budget proposal reflects the state’s improving financial position, due in part to aid from the federal government.
January 20 -
Glenn Youngkin outlined his administration's priorities in Virginia; West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice unveiled a slightly larger budget plan for fiscal 2023.
January 19 -
“Compromised systems can directly affect public finance entities in the near term,” says Fitch's Omid Rahmani, citing ransomware risks.
January 14 -
Mayor Eric Adams’s proposal to ask the state to raise the Transitional Finance Authority’s bonding authority by $19 billion is being opposed by Comptroller Brad Lander.
January 13
