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The Georgia Transportation Board has agreed to a financing plan for the nearly $1 billion Northwest Corridor project that could see more than half of the cost funded with bonds.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission wants underwriters selling $350 million of state highway revenue bonds to develop a structure to take advantage of the market's current low interest rates.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Thursday morning granted Atlanta another 13 years to complete consent-related work on its massive sewer repair program.

A favorable market and investor interest led Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to price $338 million of taxable pension obligation bonds Wednesday, a day earlier than originally planned.

Florida's Fort Lauderdale plans to sell $338 million of taxable pension obligation bonds in a deal designed to entice and assure investors by limiting future benefit hikes.

Officials in Richland County, S.C., have begun public meetings and speaking engagements to educate voters on a $450 million general obligation bond measure.

The Atlanta City Council reauthorized a $350 million commercial paper program for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Legislature's education budget cuts must go forward.

The judge overseeing Jefferson County's bankruptcy case has rejected requests to set a deadline for preparing a plan of adjustment.

Alabama voters gave state officials authority to transfer funds from a trust referred to as the "state savings account" to avoid a general fund deficit.

Moody's Investors Service does not anticipate any disruption in debt-service payments by issuers in Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricane Isaac.

Port St. Lucie, Fla. is telling bondholders that the bankruptcy of Digital Domain will not impede debt-service payments on bonds issued for the firm's abandoned campus there.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which built a north Florida toll bridge with bonds that are now in default, will ask the trustee to fund its first audit in 12 years.

Broward County, Fla., launches a $2 billion capital improvement program for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Wednesday with the sale of $636 million of bonds.

Kentucky's general fund collections receipts have been nearly flat for the first two months of fiscal 2013, according Mary Lassiter, the state budget director.

The Atlanta City Council last week agreed to pay a $136,000 settlement to the city's former chief financial officer, Joya De Foor.

A real estate developer in St. Petersburg, Fla., will present his idea for building the Tampa Bay Rays a new stadium to the City Council.

Voters in Alabama will be asked in a statewide referendum Tuesday to allow state budget transfers to shore up a $185 million deficit.

Standard & Poor's dropped its rating two notches to B-plus from BB on revenue bonds issued for the Oconee Regional Medical Center in Georgia.

Three groups have filed complaints stating that federal approval for the $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project should be thrown out because laws were violated.