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San Diego Trolley's $1 billion federal grant is a credit positive for the transit expansion, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

Planners for a 10-county region around Nashville have approved a 25-year, $6 billion transit program.

Oregon’s road user task force wants state lawmakers to expand its existing vehicle-miles-traveled fee system.

Investors have yet to reward green bonds with better pricing, but there is growing demand for the niche, according to one speaker at the Bond Buyer’s California Public Finance conference.

Just under half of likely voters in California favor approval of a $9 billion school bond measure, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California.

PFM Financial Advisors purchased Portland, Ore.-based advisory firm Western Financial Group, and hired all of its members.

Hawaii received one-notch upgrades from two rating agencies ahead of plans to price $675.58 million in general obligation bonds.

Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the city has received a proposed settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission's case, in which a jury found the city guilty of securities fraud last week.

San Diego-based Palomar Health is set to issue more than $400 million of refunding bonds in the next two weeks, split between investment-grade general obligation debt and junk-rated revenue bonds.

Municipal market participants at The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference shared concrete examples of how disclosure is improving in the wake of the Securities and Exchange Commission's continuing disclosure voluntary enforcement initiative.