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 rating upgrade reflects “sustained reduction in its long-term liability burden and Fitch's expectations of a stable burden going forward."
November 5 -
The county said the increase in shipping volume at the port didn’t cause any congestion for boats or delays in product shipments.
November 5 -
Eric Adams must deal with the COVID-19 pandemic's lingering effects, which include new remote-work patterns that may affect tax revenue and real estate values.
November 5 -
Fitch Ratings revised the Canaveral Port Authority and Port Everglades rating outlooks to stable from negative as cruise ship activity accelerates.
November 3 -
New York City got a new mayor, comptroller and City Council while Boston and Pittsburgh elected mayors. In New Jersey, final results in the gubernatorial election were still too close to call.
November 3 -
Voters in Virginia also decided the fate of several large bond referendums while Atlanta voters will see a mayoral runoff at the end of the month.
November 3 -
Chuck Stavitski and Elaine Brennan of Roosevelt & Cross and Ken Bieger of the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission talk about how the Canadian border closing due to COVID-19 affected upstate New York issuers. Chip Barnett hosts. (16 minutes)
November 2 -
The independent financial services firm will be bulking up its public finance business by hiring additional staff as it looks to Florida's West Coast while supporting its existing offices in Miami and Boca Raton.
October 29 -
Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 13 on constitutional amendments that affect how income taxes are calculated and sales taxes are collected.
October 27 -
S&P raised the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, Florida’s customer facility charge revenue bonds for Tampa International Airport to A-minus from BBB-plus. It also raised HCAA's senior and subordinate liens for TPA.
October 26
