Chip Barnett

Mr. Fish worked at Bankers Trust Co., Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette and ABN Amro and had served as a chair of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York and been a president of the Society of Municipal Analysts.

"The risk of future budgetary pressure is further elevated due to pension contributions falling short of their actuarially determined contribution amounts in each of the past three years and a relatively high level of unfunded pension liabilities," said S&P's Rob Marker.

"In Kentucky, we're working hard to ensure our place as a leader in economic development, and this growth in exports shows our efforts are succeeding," said Gov. Andy Beshear.

"When you add everything in this document up, it demonstrates you can make smart investments when you budget wisely, trust the market rather than try to dictate it, and empower your citizens more than you empower the government," said Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

Six financial institutions may be placed on West Virginia's restricted list if they are found "boycott" the fossil fuel industry, Riley Moore said.

Public finance lawyers Alison Radecki and Helen Pennock, who come to the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, will work of of the New York City office.

Based in New York City, Ted Hynes has almost 40 years of experience in the fixed-income markets, the last 15 at Raymond James.

The bonds are rated Aa2 by Moody's Investors Service, AA by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings and AA-plus by Kroll Bond Rating Agency. All four rating agencies have a stable outlook on the credit.

U.S. DOT Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg traveled to Miami-Dade County to highlight the $27 million of funding provided under the bipartisan infrastructure law to Miami International Airport's improvement projects.

Natural gas prepayment deals helped drive the utilities sector to top the Southeast in an overall down year for municipal bond sales across the region.

Meanwhile in New York, the state doubles down on climate investments and restricts investments in some big oil and gas companies as the city blasts several big banks as they pull out from the Climate Action 100+ initiative.

Fitch said its upgrade "reflects the removal of the asymmetric additional risk relating to potential general fund exposure to the county's enterprise sewer system … which reflects the system's recent restructuring of its outstanding debt."

The Turnpike Authority of Kentucky approved a resolution authorizing the issuance of up to $250 million of economic development road revenue refunding bonds.

Messina, a veteran public finance lawyer, will focus on senior living and life-plan communities.

The value of the fund rose from the $246.3 billion reported in the second quarter while returns improved to 6.18% in the third quarter from negative 1.59% in the prior period.

A majority of those polled at The Bond Buyer's 2024 National Outlook Conference also felt issuance would increase moderately this year, to between $400 billion and $450 billion.

"The debt afforablity study was just released. In this study we outlined how state debt is going to be falling by 60% over an eight year period," state Treasurer Dale Folwell said Tuesday.

It's a color-coded controversy about how far the fight over ESG and green investing precepts will affect public finance this year, with the latest skirmishes involving Bank of America and New York and New Hampshire.

Mr. McManimon worked extensively in analyzing, developing and implementing financial plans for redevelopment areas throughout New Jersey.

Thomas DiNapoli criticised the agency for failing to include projected costs associated with needed system repairs in its 2023 20-Year Needs Assessment.