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First-year Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer faces opposition from the GOP-controlled legislature.
By Nora ColomerMay 28 -
Gary Community School Corp. in Indiana wants to test its access to the bond market with a $5 million bond refunding.
By Nora ColomerApril 24 -
House lawmakers weren't willing to go as far as Mike DeWine in raising gas taxes.
By Nora ColomerMarch 8 -
Gretchen Whitmer's first budget proposal would also provide a tax break for pension and retirement income.
By Nora ColomerMarch 5 -
Enright, who died of bone cancer at 72, held fiscal positions with local governments before starting a nearly 30-year investment banking career.
By Nora ColomerFebruary 1 -
The bonds are secured by the power sales contract between American Municipal Power and 22 participants.
By Nora ColomerJanuary 7 -
City-county council of Marion County and Indianapolis approved Mayor Joe Hogsett's second straight structurally balanced budget on Oct. 15.
By Nora ColomerOctober 26 -
Only two Michigan school districts remain under state oversight.
By Nora ColomerOctober 18 -
About $125 million of the new money bonds are fixed-rate, $50 million will be floating-rate notes, and $75 million are variable-rate demand bonds.
By Nora ColomerOctober 3 -
Michigan no longer has any local governments under emergency management and the state program may be quietly laid to rest.
By Nora ColomerAugust 28 -
Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.
By Yvette Shields and Nora ColomerAugust 21 -
The judge said plaintiffs didn't allege Snyder knew about the dangers of the water in Flint River when he authorized the switch to using it.
By Nora ColomerAugust 3 -
Wayne County plans to issue the debt, secured with a state intercept, though the Michigan Finance Authority.
By Nora ColomerJuly 24 -
Johara Farhadieh will maintain her responsibilities as CIO as she takes up the executive director role.
By Nora ColomerJuly 5 -
Michigan needs to spend $4 billion more each year for upkeep of the state's transportation, water and communications infrastructure.
By Nora ColomerJuly 3 -
Roosevelt University said its goal is to balance the budget by fiscal 2020.
By Nora ColomerJuly 2 -
S&P downgraded the outlook on the AA rated school and said further weakening in the school's finances could pressure the rating on $200 million of debt.
By Nora ColomerJune 29 -
A new board supersedes the current five-member elected board of Munice Community Schools, which is now limited to an advisory role.
By Nora ColomerJune 26 -
The sales tax increase will bring in an extra $30 million to cover a projected $28 million budget shortfall.
By Nora ColomerJune 19 -
Ball State University's takeover of the troubled Muncie Schools will come as soon as July 1.
By Nora ColomerMay 14

















