Shelly Sigo

Lake Worth, Fla., voters refused to OK $63.5 million in GO bonds on the Aug. 26 ballot, but other bond referendums are set for November.

Former Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board member Scott Batterson was found guilty of bribery in a case that highlighted authority business, including bond discussions, being done in a backroom fashion despite state “sunshine” laws.

Opponents of bond financing for the Atlanta Braves new $672 million baseball stadium have filed notices of three appeals by the court's deadline.

The consortium building the $2.3 billion Interstate 4 project in central Florida says bank and federal loans are cheaper than bonds for the state's largest public-private partnership project.

Atlanta-based IFS Securities hired former New York Gov. David Paterson as chief strategist of U.S. affairs and chairman of the firm's advisory board.

The Louisiana Transportation Funding Task Force holds its first meeting Sept. 10 to begin studying new ways of funding road and bridge projects.

Miami-Dade County commissioners will consider placing a $540 million bond issue on the November ballot to build a new courthouse.

The terms of a loan turned the outlook on Florida Gulf Coast University's debt to negative, and could result in a rating downgrade of two notches, Standard & Poor's said.

A long-awaited report that recommends West Virginia issue $1.5 billion in bonds to fund transportation projects will be released in September.

Florida's government pensions generally don't drive negative credit pressure partly because of the flexibility to change benefits prospectively, Moody's said.

North Carolina's Fayetteville Public Works Commission plans to price $110 million in revenue bonds in a rare competitive deal.

Georgia privately placed $26 million in bonds to finance the tolling system for a start-up express lane project south of Atlanta.

S&P cut its rating to CC from B on the Charter School of Boynton Beach, Fla.'s bonds saying there is a "virtual certainty of default."

A new Florida coalition pledges to work on municipal pension reform because it says cities face nearly $11 billion in debt from the obligations.

Moody's downgraded bonds sold by the Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority, Ga., to Aa3 from Aa2 due to weak reserves and declining consumption.

With little supply and investors seeking high-grade bonds, Wake County, N.C., hopes to fill some of those needs a $345 million competitive GO deal Tuesday.

A three-year delay completing new nuclear units in which the South Carolina Public Service Authority owns 45% is a credit negative for the public utility, Moody's said Thursday.

Louisville Water Co. got 11 bids for $63.2 million in advance refunding bonds that resulted in more savings than anticipated, officials said.

Southeast municipal bond issuers sold $21.78 billion of debt in the first six months of the year, a 31.4% decline driven by fewer taxable and refunding deals.

Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy sent a letter Aug. 11 telling the state attorney that he is not pleased with a federal housing discrimination settlement.