Shelly Sigo

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.

The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., City Commission Wednesday approved issuing $340 million of taxable pension obligation bonds to pay 75% of the city's unfunded liability.

Charlotte Douglas International Airport plans to start laying the groundwork toward building a fifth runway at a cost of $160 million.

Standard & Poor's assigned a negative outlook to bonds issued for Big Rivers Electric Corp. because the Kentucky utility is losing a big customer.

Atlanta is seeking a finance team to restructure a swap with UBS AG and to issue refunding bonds for its Department of Watershed Management.

The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority has named interim director Max Crumit to be the Florida agency's permanent leader.

With Kentucky's unfunded public pension liability at more than $30 billion, a task force is examining how to close the unfunded gap and may consider pension bonds.

Backed by four ratings, among them Kroll Bond Rating Agency's first in Florida, Orange County hopes to reap extra savings during Thursday's $101.6 million refunding sale.

Memphis-based, fixed-income broker-deal Carty & Co. has expanded its new public finance division into Alabama, with an eye toward other states in the Southeast.

The 131-year-old Morris Brown College in Atlanta was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after an investor holding $13 million of bonds demanded payment, or face foreclosure.

Moody's Investors Service has expanded its review for potentially downgrading Miami to include pension obligations and health care costs in addition to pending SEC charges.