Shelly Sigo

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.

A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit over the massive $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project being built by Kentucky and Indiana.

Halifax Hospital Medical Center in Florida will pay $11.9 million on top of $85 million to settle claims made by the federal government and a whistleblower.

Seven current and former Georgia lawmakers filed a lawsuit against Fulton County commissioners after they increased the property tax rate by 17.45%.

Florida forecasters say final general revenue estimates for 2014 were off by $106.7 million but current year estimates for a $1 billion increase are on track.

Tennessee won the best pricing in 15 years on $345 million of bonds this week, said Sandra Thompson, director of the Office of State and Local Finance.