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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"Some have called on us to use our rainy-day fund to cover asylum seeker needs. We do not agree and neither do our city and state comptrollers as well as the bond rating agencies and fiscal experts," said NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
January 17 -
The 2025 state budget would provided $2.4 billion to New York City to pay for the costs of caring for a rising influx of migrants, which includes taking $500 million from reserves.
January 16 -
Proceeds from the PMT green bond sale will be used to finance transit and commuter projects that have been approved in the N.Y. MTA's capital programs.
January 16 -
Tourism raised $35.2 billion in taxes in 2022, consisting of $18.9 billion in federal tax revenue, $8.1 billion in state tax revenue and $8.2 billion in local tax receipts, according to a report.
January 16 -
Affordable housing expert Marian Zucker retired on Dec. 1 as head of S&P Global Rating's housing group after over 40 years of working in the public and private sectors of the municipal bond industry.
January 12 -
"It is a torpedo into one of the safest, most secure pension systems in the United States, if not the world," said North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell.
January 11 -
John Fleming, a four-term congressman and former Trump administration official, took office as state treasurer. Jeff Landry of the GOP was sworn in as governor.
January 10 -
"It is not surprising that we have witnessed — and continue to witness — a great migration of Americans away from cities and states pursuing failed policies, with Florida serving as a refuge for freedom and sanity," Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
January 10 -
After this week's sale, the state intends to issue another series of refunding bonds in February in connection with a potential tender offer for taxable GOs and a current refunding of some tax-exempt GOs.
January 8 -
"The work done by our agency often focuses on the long-term," said Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell.
January 5
