Shelly Sigo

Louisiana lawmakers struck a deal with Gov. Bobby Jindal late Thursday that paved the way for a $24.4 billion state budget to be approved.

Georgia secured financing rates as low as 1.21% on a multi-faceted competitive GO bond offering Tuesday.

Many utilities in Florida’s exhibit strong financial performance though funding challenges lie ahead in replacing aged infrastructure and dealing with climate change, according to Fitch Ratings.

A federal judge denied requests by two Florida counties seeking to block the issuance of $1.75 billion in private activity bonds for a private passenger train project.

The South Florida Water Management District is preparing to issue the largest certificate of participation deal this year to refund $470 million in COPs sold in 2006 to buy land that protects the famed Everglades.

Atlanta-based Asset Preservation Advisors recommends that investors remain “highly selective” when purchasing Kentucky’s bonds due to the state’s high pension liability.

The Virginia Supreme Court is ordering a lower court to take another look at legal efforts to prevent the financially troubled Sweet Briar College from closing.

A Florida attorney who says his property will be devalued by a private passenger train wants to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging tax-exempt financing for the project.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley vetoed the state’s fiscal 2016 general fund budget after warning the GOP-led Legislature that the plan cut too deeply into essential government services.

The state of Georgia plans to price $1.3 billion of triple-A general obligation bonds on Tuesday, while Atlanta prices a $252 million GO offering on Wednesday.

The Florida Development Finance Corp. postponed a June 10 meeting that was scheduled to consider the bond resolution for All Aboard Florida’s $1.75 billion of private activity bonds.

The North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency received the Local Government Commission’s authorization Wednesday to issue $550 million of new taxable bonds for its asset sale to Duke.

Miami-Dade County hired Kroll Bond Rating Agency, believing its analysis can help attract investors to next week's $534 million bond issue for Miami International Airport.

As Louisiana’s regular legislative session winds down, lawmakers have given little attention to a bill that would allow the state to sell $875 million of tobacco revenue bonds.

The Florida Development Finance Corp. will meet June 10 to consider All Aboard Florida’s $1.75 billion bond resolution, though project opponents have questioned if the meeting would be legal.

Standard & Poor's said Friday that it would be “unprecedented and significant” if triple-A rated Florida failed, for the first time ever, to adopt a state budget on time.

A federal judge hears arguments Friday on whether the private All Aboard Florida passenger train project can issue $1.75 billion in private activity bonds.

A North Carolina anti-toll group wants a judge to proceed with its lawsuit in an attempt to stop the state’s Interstate 77 toll project for which the P3 contract was finalized May 20.

The Florida Legislature will attempt to bridge an impasse over low income healthcare funding that has left the state without a fiscal 2016 budget and facing a government shutdown.

Orange County, Fla., plans to competitively price a $170 million tourist tax refunding deal Thursday that comes to market with three rating upgrades due to substantial growth in hotel revenues.