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Patrick Sweeney, Fidelity Capital Markets' senior vice president and manager of the municipal securities department, joined the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Thursday, replacing Edward Tishelman, who left TD Securities.

Recent MCDC settlements provide guidance concerning the scope of materiality in continuing disclosure obligations.

Standard & Poor's downgraded the underlying rating of Snohomish County School District No. 15 in Edmonds, Wash. to AA-minus from AA

California received $6.4 billion in tax revenues in October soaring 5.7% higher than last year’s figures.

San Francisco mayor Ed Lee is touting the Board of Supervisors' approval of a downtown affordable housing project that will provide homes for lower-income residents while also helping to pay for local infrastructure.

An independent report commissioned by the Los Angeles Unified School District's superintendent predicted dire financial results if the school system doesn't take action.

With construction on its new basketball arena humming along, California's capitol is turning is attention to an extensive downtown revitalization project that aims to leverage property taxes to create 10,000 places to live in downtown Sacramento by 2025.

Fitch Ratings deemed the reorganization of Clark County School District, Nevada's largest school and the nation's fifth biggest, to be a mid-term credit risk in a report describing the experience of a Utah school district that underwent a break-up in 2010.

Voters in eight states approved 26 of 37 transportation funding proposals on Nov. 3 ballots.

Moody's Investors Service had more upgrades than downgrades in the third quarter of 2015, and the upgrades also affected a larger dollar amount of debt than its downgrades.