Shelly Sigo

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed the $19.7 billion budget sent to her by the Republican-controlled Legislature.

A detailed analysis of cost-saving measures for the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project says at least $1.2 billion could be trimmed off the previously estimated $4.1 billion price tag.

Kentucky plans to competitively sell $145.8 million of lease-revenue bonds Tuesday to complete work on a new state mental hospital. The deal precedes an estimated $362.3 million offering of lease-appropriation obligations.

BRADENTON, Fla. - Jefferson County ordered that plans to place nearly 1,000 employees on administrative leave without pay be prepared this week as the government struggles to stay solvent through the fiscal year end.

BRADENTON, Fla. - Virginia's gilt-edged Arlington County will sell $127 million of general obligation public improvement bonds beginning Monday using a three-day sale structure.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Georgia issuers are facing new credit pressures and calls for conservation because of a looming deadline to cut back on withdrawals from certain river basins and a federal reservoir that provide drinking water to the state’s growing population.

Standard & Poor’s has raised its rating to BBB-minus from BB on revenue bonds issued for Princeton Community Hospital.

Former Jefferson County commissioner Chris McNair on Monday reported to a federal prison in Illinois to begin a five-year sentence for corruption related to contracts for rebuilding the county’s sewer system, according to the Birmingham News.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Jefferson County commissioners Tuesday began making plans for placing nearly 1,000 workers on administrative leave without pay as they await legislative action to help solve the Alabama county’s ongoing financial crisis.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Jefferson County, Ala., said Friday that it has received letters from the Internal Revenue Service, which wants to examine $2.3 billion of sewer warrants issued in 2003.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Birmingham, Ala., Water Works Board on Monday will take orders from retail investors for $133.9 million of senior revenue bonds.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The owners of the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers plan to sell the team to a group that will move them to Canada, leaving a void at the $213 million bond-financed Philips Arena.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Less than 30 days remain before an expected payment default on the bonds issued by the Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority to build the tolled 3.5-mile-long Garcon Point Bridge in northern Florida.

Fitch Ratings last week revised the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority’s outlook to negative ahead of a planned refunding.

Moody’s Investors Service said Monday that flooding in Mississippi could negatively affect municipalities dependent on gambling, a sector where revenues are already down because of the recession.

Miami-Dade County voters will head back to the polls late this month to choose a run-off candidate for mayor. Eleven candidates sought the office in last week’s special election but none surpassed the 50% threshold required to win outright.

After years of delays, the $1.8 billion, 26-mile toll road known as the Wekiva Parkway is finally getting a jump-start.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott last week signed a $69.1 billion budget into law while vetoing a record $615 million for various projects, some of which would have been funded by bonds.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Lambuth University in Jackson, Tenn., has filed an audit that “raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.”

BRADENTON, Fla. — Jacksonville, Fla., this week sold the first in a series of three bond deals that could total as much as $435 million within a month, depending on market conditions.