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WASHINGTON — Programs that allow localities to issue bonds to finance loans for homeowners seeking energy-efficient upgrades have hit a wall after a federal regulator directed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to tighten their underwriting standards before they purchase mortgages tied to the loans.

DALLAS — The Port of Seattle will upgrade equipment at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and refinance several series of outstanding debt with proceeds from next week’s negotiated sale of $394.6 million of intermediate-line revenue bonds.

WASHINGTON — This month is a significant milestone for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, marking its one-year anniversary as the sole official repository for muni issuers’ continuing disclosure documents.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — With two upgrades in hand, the city-owned electric utility in Tacoma, Wash., has a $200 million revenue bond deal on the calendar next week.

More than $150 million of federal broadband grants were awarded Friday to governmental, publicly owned or bond-issuing nonprofit organizations.

WASHINGTON — Airports would receive steady funding until August, and the federal government would reclaim $17.4 million of unused transit funding this fiscal year, if two separate bills approved this week by the Senate and a House committee become law.

WASHINGTON — The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s outlook was revised to negative by Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday, ahead of a $350 million revenue bond transaction it has scheduled for later this month.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Fiscal 2011 dawned on California Thursday without a state budget in place.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — California this week selected a group led by Meridiam Infrastructure to be its preferred partner for the state’s first public-private partnership for a courthouse.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — An $11.4 billion water bond measure may be yanked from California’s November ballot.