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The Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers is urging House and Senate leaders to pursue federal oversight of Puerto Rico but avoid bankruptcy access for the commonwealth.

Virginia planners determine that express toll lanes on Interstate 66 is best way to cut travel times.

California Public Employees' Retirement System chief executive officer Anne Stausboll announced Thursday that she will retire as the head of the nation's largest public pension fund.

California Gov. Jerry Brown wants the state’s budget surplus spent on roads and bridges and to pay down public employee retirement liabilities.

Dealer and advisor groups want revisions to a Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board proposal to extend pay-to-play prohibitions to non-dealer municipal advisors.

Los Angeles City Council contemplating rate increases and governance changes at its Department of Water and Power simultaneously.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley asked lawmakers to raise the state's gasoline tax and cut the income tax rate.

A continuing decline in oil prices will strain the budgets of five producing states to varying degrees, according to Standard & Poor's.

Local government lobbyists think California may have a window to pass transportation funding legislation this spring.

The Internal Revenue Service appears is stepping up its audit of $80 million of Arborwood Community Development District's 2006 bonds and appears to be focusing in part on the Florida CDD's board and land that may have been purchased at too high of a price.