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Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval proposed issuing general obligation bonds backed by liquor taxes to fund $58 million in capital projects because the state still has no capacity for its traditional property-tax backed GOs.

District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi will retire on June 1, he announced Friday.

Fitch Ratings downgraded to A from A-plus $7.2 million of Lomita, Calif.'s water revenue bonds Thursday and gave the debt a negative outlook.

Fresno, after much of its debt was downgraded to junk by Moody's, is facing cash flow problems that will likely lead to more layoffs and service cuts.

Pennsylvania is distributing $8.6 million in restitution from JPMorgan Chase & Co., to municipalities and nonprofit organizations who were victims of a scheme to rig bids of municipal bond reinvestment contracts, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office announced.

A bill has been introduced in the state legislature to sell the naming rights for public facilities.

Increase in passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif. partly attributed to new international terminal offerings.

An Orange County Superior Court Judge has 90 days to rule on a lawsuit filed by the California Department of Finance and the chancellor of the state's community colleges against Orange County after the county diverted money from education to balance its budget.

A proposal has been introduced in California that would exempt 20,000 local and regional mass transit works across the state from pension reform passed by state lawmakers last year.

California lawmakers will hold hearings to investigate the use of off-budget accounts by state agencies