Shelly Sigo

The Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridges Authority has adopted four strategic objectives to move it closer to developing a finance plan for a $4.1 billion project that would build two new bridges across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana, and reconfigure a major intersection in Louisville known as Spaghetti Junction.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed appointed Cathy Hampton as the new city attorney on Friday.

Florida’s unemployment rate rose to 11.7% in August, a gain of 0.2 percentage points from the prior month, according to the Agency for Workforce Innovation, the state’s employment reporting agency.

The Birmingham City Council approved a resolution Tuesday supporting an increase in the lodging tax rate by 3.5% to support the development of sports and entertainment facilities.

BRADENTON, Fla. — ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. is asking Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority bondholders if they are interested in creating a committee to investigate potential resolutions to the northwest Florida issuer’s looming payment default.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Sarasota and two counties on Florida’s southwest coast plan to take advantage of federally subsidized economic recovery zone and Build America Bonds when they issue more than $100 million of debt for the spring-training facilities of two Major League Baseball teams.

Moody’s Investors Service on Friday placed a negative outlook on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s long-term rated debt.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Monday appointed Louis Miller as the new general manager at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

A recent firestorm over the leaking of several Major League Baseball team audited financial statements prompted South Florida elected officials to say they were misled in negotiations with the Florida Marlins for a $642 million bond-financed stadium, which is under construction and due to open in 2012.

BRADENTON, Fla. — When the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia sold $2.66 billion of bonds in March for the first U.S. nuclear power project in nearly three decades, it faced a challenge. With interest rates so low and the financial markets so uncertain, how would it invest such a huge portfolio of bond proceeds before it needed to draw funds to pay for its share of two new nuclear units at Plant Vogtle near Augusta?

BRADENTON, Fla. — Orange County, Fla., will competitively price $148 million of tourist-development tax refunding revenue bonds Tuesday as tax collections appear to be stabilizing from recessionary lows last year.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Nashville has approved a pre-development agreement with a private partner to finance and build an 800-room hotel across the street from Music City Center, a new convention center under construction near downtown.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is revising the process by which it will seek a developer for a new multi-modal passenger terminal in downtown Atlanta.

Atlanta announced Tuesday that Department of Watershed Management commissioner Rob Hunter will resign.

Florida’s top lawmakers have decided there are no urgent issues with regard to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that necessitate convening another special session of the Legislature.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama Circuit Court Judge Albert Johnson ruled Tuesday that he would appoint a receiver to take over Jefferson County’s sewer system, which is saddled with nearly $3.2 billion of variable- and auction-rate warrants.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama Circuit Court Judge Albert Johnson ruled Tuesday that he would appoint a receiver for Jefferson County’s sewer system, which is saddled with nearly $3.2 billion of variable- and auction-rate warrants.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Fraternal Order of Police has filed a suit against Miami asking a judge to invoke a process that would essentially place the city’s finances under state control once again.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, easily won the party nomination for a U.S. Senate seat Saturday with more than 73% of the votes cast in the primary.

Kentucky’s unemployment rate dropped to 9.9% in July from 10.8% a year earlier.