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As climate and cybersecurity risks intensify, Jeff Lipton argues it's time for the legal community to lead a new era of municipal disclosure — tightening language, clarifying exposures, and ensuring investor confidence.

Pennsylvania's budget impasse has surpassed four months. Local governments and schools that rely on state funds are getting frustrated.

Next week's issuance is slated to be "substantial" — an estimated $13.1 billion — although that is expected to be met with "solid" November reinvestment capital, J.P. Morgan strategists said.

States have spent weeks preparing for how they would cover the $8 billion shortfall in food stamps for the month of November.

The rating agency expects the school to post an operating deficit this year.

City Manager Oliver Chi unveiled a plan to invest $60 million to change the city's current trajectory.

"Illinois is just pure mismanagement," Ryan Frost, managing director of the Reason Foundation's Pension Integrity Project, said.

Issuance year-to-date is $493.063 billion, up 9.3% from $451.079 billion over the same period. With issuance estimated at $13.118 billion in the first week of November, 2024's $500-plus billion record should fall within the next week or two.

The school system, which has an AA underlying bond rating from S&P, was targeted by the Texas Education Agency for a takeover based on academic performance.

As more states move towards resetting their Congressional districts questions arise over how redistricting will affect the balance of power and eventually tax policy.