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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The state said it would continue to move forward with the new prisons despite Barclays departure amid controversy over the role of private firm CoreCivic.
April 19 -
The total number of jobs in the state last month rose 21,800 from February.
April 16 -
“Everybody’s getting a lot more comfortable with having the virus under control and we are starting to see it in the form of economic activity,” said Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller.
April 16 -
The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains below the national unemployment rate of 6.0%.
April 16 -
The state’s unemployment rate has remained below the national rate for eight months in a row and has fallen by 0.2% over the year.
April 16 -
The P3 taxable deal aims to replace the state’s old, dilapidated and outdated jails with more modern alternatives in a bid to ease prison overcrowding and provide new services to inmates.
April 14 -
The state says the Centers for Disease Control's anti-COVID-19 safety protocols for the cruise ship industry are illegally burdensome and exceed its authority.
April 9 -
Moody's Investors Service notes that the new two-tier pension system will not immediately decrease Kentucky's high unfunded pension liabilities.
April 8 -
The deal arrives with a boost from Fitch Ratings, which revised its outlook on the enterprise to positive from stable.
April 7 -
Crumbaker has experience representing bondholders and corporate trust companies in cases related to distressed or defaulted high-yield tax-exempt bonds.
April 5 -
The court says Florida didn't prove that its ecosystem suffered any harm from Georgia's alleged actions.
April 1 -
Municipal bond industry leaders weighed in on their expectations for 2021 during a panel discussion at The Bond Buyer's National Outlook Conference.
March 31 -
Growth pressures in Miami and in Southern Florida create an opportunity for municipal bonds, if they can be sold to tax- skeptical locals.
March 31 -
Fitch said the downgrade reflects “persistent pressures on the travel and tourism sector" because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 31 -
Gov. Ralph Northam and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced the agreements with Amtrak, CSX and Virginia Railway Express.
March 30 -
The governor pointed out the advantages of the current low interest-rate market environment and the state’s low debt levels.
March 24 -
The federal Tennessee Valley Authority has been pushed to offer better terms to local utilities in the Southeast to keep them in its fold.
March 24 -
Virginia was ranked 23rd in the nation for its seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in January as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the economy.
March 17 -
Boosters say completion of the 22-mile trail corridor is expected to deliver a total economic impact of $10 billion.
March 17 -
Louisiana and NASA are looking at creating a “Space Campus” in New Orleans out of an existing NASA assembly facility to drive economic development.
March 17
