Nora Colomer

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health plans to price a $345 million deal this week that includes a refunding, conversion of variable rate debt to fixed rate, and new money to partially fund the health system’s expansion.

MetroHealth in Cuyahoga County, Ohio is eyeing more than $1 billion of borrowing to finance a plan to transform its current campus.

A Michigan House committee will resume hearings on a plan to limit retirement healthcare benefits for municipal workers in the New Year.

Michigan needs to spend an extra $4 billion annually to create 21st century transportation, water, wastewater, and communications infrastructure systems, according to a commission formed by Gov. Rick Snyder.

The Michigan House on Thursday began hearings on a plan introduced by House Republicans to limit retirement healthcare benefits for police officers, firefighters and other government workers in cash-strapped municipalities across the state.

The Michigan Senate advanced a series of bills designed to offer financial aid to “transformational” development projects.

Alabama plans to issue $652 million of bonds secured by settlement payments stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Detroit officials say savings from a bond refinancing will cover the $34 million cost of adapting the design of a halfway-finished pro hockey arena to include the region's pro basketball franchise.

The Gary Community School Corporation in Indiana is struggling to meet payroll after voters rejected a referendum to increase property taxes.

The Michigan Finance Authority’s successful restructuring of $226.3 million of Detroit Public Schools bonds helped the district earn a two notch ratings upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service.

Wayne County, Mich., got the green light to complete construction of a new downtown Detroit county jail, which will require $200 million of bond funding.

Highland Park, Michigan says it shouldn’t be on the hook to repay $30 million to the Great Lakes Water Authority, saying they stem from overcharges related in part to a bond sale and forward swap losses.

Public Finance banking veteran Donald Persinski has joined KeyBanc Capital Markets' in its Pittsburgh office.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District will take over the schools currently run by the Educational Achievement Authority, which competes with district for state school funding dollars.

Wayne County, Michigan is asking voters Tuesday for a millage proposal that would raise an additional $385 per student for its 33 school districts.

Several Michigan school districts that are asking voters Tuesday for 'sinking fund' millages, local property taxes that fund major repairs and renovations to school buildings, will miss out on the expanded uses of the tax authorized by new legislation.

Fishers is trying to spread the word of its status as Indiana’s only city with a triple-A rating from S&P Global Ratings in an effort to develop broader investor appeal and further lower its borrowing costs.

Two federal judges who helped navigate Detroit’s historic bankruptcy will join a Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone principal to launch a downtown Detroit office of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services.

Michigan’s Muskegon Heights School District is ready to transition out of emergency management after shaving nearly $10 million of its deficit in the four years since it’s been under state oversight.

Two decisions in recent days pave the way forward for lawsuits against the state of Michigan and its officials over Flint’s water contamination crisis.