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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Proceeds from the deal, along with additional monies, were to have been used to fund the costs of the Royal Caribbean Cruises' campus project as well as a debt service reserve fund.
November 15 -
Moody's kept stable rating outlooks on Florida, Maryland and Virginia after moving the United States to negative. D.C.'s outlook was cut.
November 13 -
The constitutional amendment removes a special debt limit placed on small city school districts; now they will be treated the same as other school districts.
November 9 -
Year-to-date, MIA has seen passengers levels at 113% of pre-COVID 19 levels, boosted by domestic travel, according to a report from BofA Global Research.
November 7 -
Lawmakers are looking for ways to slow the rising cost of property insurance, provide additional relief to victims of Hurricane Idalia, bolster efforts against anti-Semitism and support Israel while targeting Iran.
November 6 -
The upgrade "reflects a material improvement in the MTA's fiscal outlook, which was largely driven by New York State increasing the maximum rate of the payroll mobility tax," Fitch said.
October 25 -
"Transmission is often a pressing need. Routing power around more efficiently with fewer losses helps to maintain the integrity of the system," said John Hallacy.
October 20 -
Surpassing $150 million in total investments, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Arizona and Georgia have joined Florida, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and Miami Beach in supporting Israel financially in the wake of the deadly terror attacks by Hamas.
October 19 -
The study confirms the Bay is one of the most valuable in Florida, says Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
October 18 -
After teaching local government finance at the University of North Carolina School of Government, Crews rejoined McGuireWoods's public finance team in Raleigh,
October 17
