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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John Di Stasio, president of the Large Public Power Council, said while the industry faces some pressures, public power systems are stable with growing revenues and healthy cash coverages.
June 28 -
David Fields, Rob Whitlock and Naomi O'Dell have been hired from RBC Capital Markets and will work out of the firm's Philadelphia and Chicago offices.
June 28 -
Virginia Wong, a partner in Nixon Peabody's public finance group, talks with Chip Barnett about effective mentorship and building successful teams. (15 minutes)
June 27 -
"I got cut," he told The Bond Buyer. "I'm looking for a new job now."
June 26 -
"His key role in the financial rescue of New York City following its near-bankruptcy in 1975 set Dick on a nearly five-decade path making sure such an event would never happen again in the city and elsewhere," said William Glasgall of the Volcker Alliance.
June 26 -
What's the impact of hybrid work on the city's commercial office market and property tax revenues? It may be less than you think, according to Comptroller Brad Lander.
June 23 -
The "act to increase compliance by counties and municipalities that fail to timely submit an annual audit report," was called too harsh by Gov. Roy Cooper.
June 21 -
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said the state unemployment rate in May was steady at 2.6% for the fifth straight month, the lowest among the 10 largest states in the nation.
June 16 -
The IBO is a publicly funded city agency that provides nonpartisan information about the budget and economy but has no policymaking role.
June 15 -
"The lowered ratings reflect our view of the system's ongoing operational management vulnerabilities that led to an EPA administrative order and alleged violations of the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act," said S&P's Jenny Poree.
June 14
