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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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.
February 16 -
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."
February 15 -
The Turnpike Authority of Kentucky approved a resolution authorizing the issuance of up to $250 million of economic development road revenue refunding bonds.
February 15 -
Messina, a veteran public finance lawyer, will focus on senior living and life-plan communities.
February 14 -
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.
February 13 -
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.
February 9 -
"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.
February 8 -
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.
February 6 -
Mr. McManimon worked extensively in analyzing, developing and implementing financial plans for redevelopment areas throughout New Jersey.
February 5 -
Thomas DiNapoli criticised the agency for failing to include projected costs associated with needed system repairs in its 2023 20-Year Needs Assessment.
February 5
