Nora Colomer

Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Huntington Capital Markets has hired public finance veteran Richard Hatton to head its public finance operation in Cincinnati.

Detroit’s plan to create a fund to address a pension hole left behind after its historic bankruptcy got a thumbs up from Moody’s Investors Service.

Cleveland-based MetroHealth wants to persuade Cuyahoga County to allow it to substitute a liquidity agreement for a debt service reserve fund on forthcoming bond deals.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 8-year extension of its lucrative broadcast agreement with two major broadcasting networks wasn’t enough to stave off a downgrade.

Despite pressure to slow down the approval process, the Cuyahoga City Council plans to vote March 28 on a $140 million debt issue to finance renovations to the Quicken Loans Arena.

With its aid levels at stake, Detroit Public Schools Community District is planning a preemptive strike against state plans to shutter schools.

Ohio-based ProMedica Health System’s shaky fiscal 2016 results drove a one-notch downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service.

North Dakota lowered revenue expectations for the remainder of the current biennium and predicted lower tax receipts than previously thought for the next.

TriHealth, one of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems in the Cincinnati area, is making its debut in the bond market Tuesday with its first public offering in a $300 million sale.

Ohio’s Water Development Authority will sell $400 million of high-grade paper to fund a loan program on Tuesday.

An infrastructure crisis that includes resolution of its jail construction project represent one of the bigger challenges Wayne County, Michigan must tackle to remain fiscally healthy, county executive Warren Evans said in his State of the County speech.

The popularity of the National Basketball Association’s champion Cleveland Cavaliers may not extend to Cuyahoga County’s proposal to sell $140 million of bonds to update the team’s 22-year-old arena.

The Omaha City council is considering several revenue streams to support borrowing that would help finance a proposed $156 million streetcar system.

A two-year Indiana state budget is moving to the Senate after gaining approval in the House.

Lagging Nebraska tax revenue resulted in a new cut to the state’s revenue forecast.

A struggling Indiana highway public-private partnership may have turned a corner.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a plan he says will help the city meet a 2024 balloon payment on its pension obligation.

In a change of course, a Detroit authority will issue new bonds to finance the $34 million cost of adapting the under-construction Little Caesars Arena to house the Detroit Pistons basketball team.

The Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representative voted down legislation to roll back the state’s income tax legislation.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio-based MetroHealth System was placed on Credit Watch with negative implications by S&P Global Ratings.