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 latest upgrade is further recognition of the work we have put into responsible budgeting," said Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio.
May 1 -
The Jacksonville office is the firm's first in Florida and 28th location in the United States.
May 1 -
While fiscal 2023 and 2024 budgets remain balanced, outyear gaps increase to $4.2 billion, $6.0 billion and $7.0 billion in fiscal 2025 through 2027, respectively.
April 28 -
Almost a month late, the New York Senate and Assembly are expected to soon pass the $229 billion fiscal 2024 budget.
April 28 -
"What are our options? You either pick these banks or you don't. If you don't, business shuts down. We stop building infrastructure," said state Treasurer John Schroder, the bond commission chair.
April 26 -
Nassau County is set to issue $269.54 million of general obligation bonds in two separate sales in the upcoming week.
April 21 -
Proceeds will be used to refund some bonds that had been issued to finance or refinance eligible clean water and drinking water projects in the state.
April 21 -
The Florida Legislature has passed a law that bans the issuance of municipal bonds, such as green bonds that use environmental, social or governance criteria. The bill now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.
April 20 -
"Florida may have the statutory authority to abrogate an agreement, but what does that say for things going forward?" asks Joseph Krist, publisher of Muni Credit News. "Why couldn't an anti-development administration do the same thing in reverse to somewhere like the Villages?"
April 19 -
Neal Pandozzi, a partner at the law firm of Bowditch & Dewey, talks with Chip Barnett about what environmental social and governance really means for public finance, separating politics from policy, polemics from principles. (34 minutes)
April 18
