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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Voters in Virginia also decided the fate of several large bond referendums while Atlanta voters will see a mayoral runoff at the end of the month.
November 3 -
Chuck Stavitski and Elaine Brennan of Roosevelt & Cross and Ken Bieger of the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission talk about how the Canadian border closing due to COVID-19 affected upstate New York issuers. Chip Barnett hosts. (16 minutes)
November 2 -
The independent financial services firm will be bulking up its public finance business by hiring additional staff as it looks to Florida's West Coast while supporting its existing offices in Miami and Boca Raton.
October 29 -
Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 13 on constitutional amendments that affect how income taxes are calculated and sales taxes are collected.
October 27 -
S&P raised the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, Florida’s customer facility charge revenue bonds for Tampa International Airport to A-minus from BBB-plus. It also raised HCAA's senior and subordinate liens for TPA.
October 26 -
The $162 million tax-exempt new money deal is bolstered by two ratings upgrades and analysts say it will generate a lot of investor interest on Wednesday.
October 26 -
If commuters continue to work from home more often than in the office, their normal spending patterns on things like coffee and lunch will shift and impact business districts, neighborhoods and ultimately tax revenues.
October 26 -
The state will help back the $200 million project through up to $17 million of municipal bonds to be issued by the Virginia Public Building Authority.
October 25 -
Florida gained 84,500 jobs in September, with the state’s unemployment rate falling under 5%.
October 25 -
Kutak Rock will open a law office in Tallahassee next month, to be staffed with 10 hires from Hopping Green & Sams.
October 20
