Shelly Sigo

On the last day of the Florida Legislature’s annual session Friday, lawmakers gave Miami an exemption from paying property taxes on the four parking garages it financed for the Miami Marlins’ new baseball stadium.

Bond insurers came and went last week in the Bank of New York Mellon’s legal challenge in Jefferson County’s bankruptcy case.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Florida Legislature ended its 60-day session late Friday after passing a $70 billion budget for fiscal 2013.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Bank of New York Mellon will distribute the toll revenues of Florida’s Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority to holders of the agency's defaulted bonds later this month.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The 198-bed Citrus Memorial Hospital, near the west coast of Florida, sank further into non-investment-grade territory Wednesday when Moody's Investors Service downgraded its debt to Ba3 from Ba2.

Investors holding term bonds exchanged last year as part of the Connector 2000 Association bankruptcy must exchange them a second time after the bonds they received proved to be untradeable for technical reasons.

With all but two of 170 precincts in Atlanta reporting early Wednesday, voters overwhelmingly approved renewing a sales tax that supports the city’s water and sewer system.

Fitch Ratings on Monday downgraded the Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency’s tax-increment financing revenue bonds to A from A-plus.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board of governors Monday voted unanimously to appoint Tom Grady as interim president.

The Alabama Public School and College Authority last week saved more than $26 million refinancing $90.9 million of outstanding capital improvement pool bonds and $90.6 million of economic development and training bonds.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Atlanta voters are being asked Tuesday to reauthorize a sales tax that supports the city's water and sewer system.

The North Carolina Turnpike Authority has received final federal approval of the route for the Garden Parkway, a 22-mile, limited-access toll road.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Investors will see triple-A rated Broward County, Fla., in the market over four days next week pricing $462 million of new-money and refunding bonds.

A bankruptcy court judge in Alabama Wednesday afternoon certified multiple appeals filed in Jefferson County, Ala.'s Chapter 9 case, allowing them to be heard in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association may explore using tax-exempt bonds to pay future claims, according to the Wilmington Star News.

The Florida PACE Funding Agency short-listed firms on Friday to negotiate for banking and administrative services.

Federal Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett has scheduled a hearing for March 23 to hear Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.’s legal motion for relief from Jefferson County, Ala.’s bankruptcy.

David Hooks was hired last week to be Jefferson County’s director of capital structure and investments, according to the Birmingham News.

St. Petersburg-based Raymond James Financial announced that it has cleared a significant procedural hurdle in its acquisition of Morgan Keegan & Co.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is proposing to sell as much as $500 million of grant anticipation revenue vehicle bonds to finance upgrades to road and bridges in projects that his office would select after consulting with local leaders around the state.