Shelly Sigo

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Atlanta City Council late Monday approved a $1.8 billion budget that won't require an increase in property taxes in fiscal 2013.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Gilt-edged Georgia plans to competitively sell $741.5 million of new and refunding general obligation bonds this week.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The National Environmental Policy Act was violated when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear plant licensing, environmentalists have argued in a federal appeal.

BRADENTON, Fla. - John Forney, a public finance advisor and specialist in insurance and catastrophe bonds at Raymond James | Morgan Keegan, is leaving the investment bank to become chief executive officer of a Florida-based property insurance company.

The Georgia Department of Transportation last week issued a request for qualifications for firms interested in designing, building and partially financing the nearly 30-mile, $1 billion Northwest Corridor project along Interstate 75 and 575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties.

Florida’s three largest counties, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, are reporting their first annual increase in taxable property values since 2007.

Jefferson County, Ala.’s bankruptcy case administrator must search for new members to serve on a committee representing unsecured creditors, Judge Thomas Bennett ruled last week.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s tax-exempt bond offering Tuesday was oversubscribed 2-1/2 times after receiving $3.8 billion in orders.

BRADENTON, Fla. – The Florida Department of Transportation is preparing to raise tolls to help finance $1.8 billion of road improvement projects.

BRADENTON, Fla. — After the sale of $673 million of bonds to finance most of North Carolina's second toll road — the 19.7-mile Monroe Connector — the project has stalled.

Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will bring $1.25 billion of bonds and notes to market in a deal that could be upsized to $1.5 billion if conditions warrant.

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday downgraded Port St. Lucie, Fla.’s senior-lien utility revenue bonds to A1 from Aa3.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which oversees the 3.5-mile Garcon Point toll bridge in northwest Florida, has canceled its June 13 meeting.

The Jefferson County, Ala., Commission has scheduled the first of three public hearings on sewer rates, which provide the revenue securing the county’s $3.14 billion of defaulted sewer warrants.

More than a dozen Birmingham residents, including two City Council members and two Alabama lawmakers, on Monday filed a $1.63 billion claim in Jefferson County's Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley Thursday selected 105 road and bridge improvement projects for the first round of funding in the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program, or ATRIP.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Florida Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad this week signed an agreement with the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority to build the long-planned $1.9 billion Wekiva Parkway.

The Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board prices the biggest deal of the week, selling $600 million of capital projects revenue bonds.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Lower income and high operating expenses at Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center prompted Moody’s Investors Service Tuesday to drop the rating on the arena bonds to below-investment grade.

Part of a noise-mitigation plan for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has fallen apart after the Federal Aviation Administration disapproved portions of it.