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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Apollo will make an equity and credit investment that will significantly increase SWS’s underwriting capacity for municipal and corporate debt, as well as equity offerings, the firms said.
April 13 -
Using a surplus to build reserve levels was key for the outlook change, the rating agency said.
April 12 -
The budget includes a $600 million commitment from the state to subsidize a new stadium for the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills.
April 8 -
A mostly tax-exempt deal will let the District Department of Transportation to put energy efficient LEDs in its 75,000 streetlights.
April 8 -
Most state departments and authorities would be required to offer a telework program of up to two days a week for one year starting July 1.
April 6 -
S&P revised the outlook on Miami Beach to stable from negative and affirmed the AA-minus rating on the city’s resort tax revenue bonds.
April 6 -
Panelists discuss the implications of working from home in a hybrid manner, rising crime and falling mass transit ridership, vulnerable revenue sources and the lack of affordable housing at a New York Fed event.
April 1 -
The upgrade to A-minus from BBB-plus "reflects what we view as material improvement in the state's structural deficit and near-term liquidity," S&P said.
April 1 -
For a third spending cycle in a row, there was tension over funding for the Kentucky Wired public private partnership deal.
March 30 -
Moody’s said MEAG's upgrade reflects the upgrade of Florida’s JEA Electric Enterprise ratings on Monday. JEA is to be a major customer of MEAG's nuclear units.
March 30
