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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development veteran Margaret Salazar will become the new director of Oregon Housing and Community Services Nov. 1.

A bill introduced in the House would make municipal bonds issued by historically black colleges and universities tax-exempt at the federal, state and local levels.

Next month Alaska will pay out some $657 million as part of its annual dividend to its citizens, a drastically reduced amount that Gov. Bill Walker is hoping will hammer home the need for significant fiscal reform in the state.

Report from GAO finds states challenged by need to fund bridge projects from limited resources.

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.