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Illinois Supreme Court justices offered little indication of how they lean in the case seeking to invalidate more than $14 billion of outstanding bonds.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is requesting comment on requiring more written disclosure from solicitor municipal advisors, which make up just 19% of all MA firms.

The three mining tax proposals would require a constitutional amendment because the current tax cap is baked into the constitution.

The rise of machine learning. Continued growth of electronic trading. Intensifying automation. Stephanie Sparvero, Global Head of BVAL Evaluated Pricing at Bloomberg, talks about these issues and more in how the muni market is charting a changing muni landscape. Lynne Funk hosts. (30 minutes)

The funding also means the use of state-authorized lockbox funds from Internet sales and mansion taxes to prop up the operating budget is no longer necessary, which allows the agency to issue MTA bonds in 2021, to advance the 2020 to 2024 capital program.

The Fed remains dovish, although it raised inflation projections and lowered expected unemployment rates, but most participants still see rates at the zero lower bound in 2023.

Highlights of that aid include $3 billion for K through 12 schools, $308 million for childcare, and $370 million for rental, mortgage, and homeless assistance.

Virginia was ranked 23rd in the nation for its seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in January as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the economy.

Boosters say completion of the 22-mile trail corridor is expected to deliver a total economic impact of $10 billion.

Louisiana and NASA are looking at creating a “Space Campus” in New Orleans out of an existing NASA assembly facility to drive economic development.