Kyle Glazier

Stockton, Calif., chief financial officer Vanessa Burke, who weathered the storm of the city's bankruptcy, has joined Urban Futures, Inc.'s public management team.

The Port of Seattle is set to sell nearly $600 million of bonds next week to refund outstanding debt and to finance new projects at the city's airport and other facilities.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Laramie County, Wyo.'s 2012 bonds issued for Cheyenne Regional Medical Center to A from A-plus.

Retired investment banker Earl Hamlin has been elected president of the Port of Oakland Board of Port Commissioners.

San Jose (Calif.) Redevelopment Agency received an upgrade to BBB from BBB-minus from Fitch Ratings affecting $1.5 billion of bonds.

Washington State's budget boosted education spending, a positive development for school districts and public universities, Moody's Investors Service said.

Standard & Poor's upgraded California's general obligation rating to AA-minus from A-plus.

Bridge Strategic Partners has become the California Statewide Communities Development Authority's new program administrator.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a state budget into law, avoiding a government shutdown and appropriating money to pay the state's bond debts.

Oregon Health and Science University will sell $100 Million of federally-taxable debt next week.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of ex-Miami, Fla. budget director Michael Boudreaux, sending the former official and the city back to court to fight a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit in a move some lawyers fear could hurt municipal officials' abilities to do their jobs.

The Supreme Court's Thursday ruling that upheld the legality of federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act is a win for the hospital sector that provides some stability through the remainder of the Obama presidency, analysts said.

The traditional funded ratio of state and local pension plans rose for the first time since the financial crisis and may continue to rise in coming years, according to a new study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

A bill that would allow an Oregon authority to issue bonds for projects in other states is headed for the governor's desk after passing through the state Senate this week.

The Alaska legislature passed a budget that avoided a possible government shutdown next month, though the state still faces a major shortfall and will need to take action if oil revenues do not improve.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has added a new feature to its EMMA website that allows users to locate disclosure information that might otherwise be difficult to find in cases where new CUSIP numbers are assigned to portions of bonds after issuance.

Municipal securities dealers are worried that their participation in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative could cause them problems with multiple regulators, and have asked the SEC for reassurance that their businesses will not be impeded because they chose to report under the MCDC.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is proposing to ease the standard of independence for one of its public board member positions.

The Wyoming Infrastructure Authority has named Jason Begger as its new executive director, replacing Loyd Drain who will step down at the end of next month.

A pair of California state senators on Wednesday introduced a proposed amendment to the Golden State’s constitution that would increase property tax revenues by increasing the assessed value of most businesses.