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Wayne County, Michigan's fiscal progress landed it a positive ratings credit outlook from S&P Global Services that brings it closer to returning to investment grade.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Mercy Health, Ohio's largest not-for-profit healthcare system, to A2 from A1

Michigan lawmakers finalized a controversial Detroit Public Schools restructuring package that is supposed to rescue the struggling system from insolvency.

In better financial health, Inkster, Mich., will earn its release from a state-mandated emergency consent agreement by the end of the month.

Citizens Energy Group – which manages central Indiana’s water system – heads into the market with a $70 million revenue bond issue accompanied by upgrades from two rating agencies.

Exelon Corp.’s plan to shutter two of its Illinois based reactors is “bad news” for the state and several local communities, says Moody’s Investors Service.

Warren Evans, County Executive of Wayne County, Michigan, plans to use proceeds of the county’s wastewater treatment center on pension debt.

Utica Community Schools in Macomb County, Michigan, suffered a three-notch downgrade as declining enrollment takes its toll on the district’s books.

Oil price volatility continues to take a toll on bond ratings in Williston, North Dakota, where S & P Global Ratings lowered its rating on $44.5 million of public safety sales tax revenue bonds.

The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan plans to ask voters in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties to approve a 1.5 mill property tax increase for improved transit .