Ratings

The on-time and on-budget Tappan Zee Bridge replacment helped the authority land a positive rating outlook.

Four senators released a proposal to deal with the Bluegrass state’s unfunded pension obligations.

The Detroit-based university will sell $120 million in general revenue bonds.

Ball State University would control the financially distressed Muncie school district through an appointed seven-member board.

Benefit changes for the city’s public safety pensions will remain, said Moody's Investors Service.

Moody's revised its outlook on Connecticut's capital to developing from negative, pending the city's application for a state workout program.

The Ohio Turnpike and Transportation Commission is selling $72 million of senior-lien bonds and $415 million of junior-lien bonds.

The "transformative" effect of landing the second Amazon headquarters is likely to help the economy of the winning government, according to S&P.

The increasing saturation of the Northeast market with casinos bodes poorly for states expecting tax windfalls, analysts said.

Oil appears to be making a steady comeback, lifting prospects for the key producing states, according to Fitch Ratings.

Gov. John Bel Edwards released a spending plan for 2019 targeting health care and higher education to bridge much of the deficit.

Milwaukee is selling $70 million of notes to speed up pension payments.

A state official cited the need to have special tax obligation bonds rated "on the bonds' own merits," distinct from the state's GOs.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal is favorable from a credit perspective, S&P Global Ratings said.

Former S&P Global Ratings analyst Richard Packard will succeed Black in Fitch's Austin office.

Moody's shifted the outlook on its A3 rating forSpringfield, Illinois, to negative.

Fitch Ratings expects the Puget Sound region could see continued economic growth for two years.

Almost three years after sinking to the verge of a junk, New Jersey’s largest city received an outlook boost from Moody's.

S&P Global Ratings said it lowered its long-term rating on Missouri Western State University's (MWSU) series 2008, 2010B, and 2012 to BBB-plus from A-minus.

The ratings withdrawal impacts two Indiana bonds and various New York, and Virginia local government issues.