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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Moody's said its rating upgrades reflect the Jacksonville, Florida, utility's sound financial performance and governance changes.
March 29 -
Raymond James has agreed to acquire SumRidge Partners, a fixed income market maker dealing in investment-grade and high-yield municipal bonds.
March 29 -
Nora Wittstruck, senior director and environmental social and governance sector lead at S&P Global Ratings, talks with Chip Barnett about climate change, sea level rise and how municipalities’ mitigation efforts affect South Florida and other parts of the U.S. (19 minutes)
March 29 -
Fitch said it expects UT to maintain a strong operating performance that could warrant an upgrade in the next two years.
March 28 -
Ten states, includeing five in the Southeast, pre-pandemic employment levels in January, according to Fitch Ratings. In an update, the U.S. Labor Department reported Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in February.
March 25 -
Gov. Phil Murphy proposes to make an additional $1.3 billion deposit into the state’s Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund.
March 24 -
Davey will oversee operations for the city’s subways, buses, paratransit services and the Staten Island Railway.
March 23 -
The 20% rise is higher than the city’s forecast of a 15.7% gain and this may help the Big Apple see better-than-expected income tax revenue.
March 23 -
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and city Comptroller Brad Lander lauded the SEC’s proposal, saying environmental transparency is beneficial to the state and city pension plans.
March 23 -
Jean-Yves Fillion, CEO of BNP Paribas USA, talks with Chip Barnett about the bank’s continuing initiatives in sustainable finance and how it leverages its global sponsorship of tennis to further its advocacy of environmental issues, social equity and community responsibility. Taped live at the BNP Paribas 2022 Open in Indian Wells California. (20 minutes)
March 22
