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The bill would restore an important source of liquidity for state and local governments and the financing of critical infrastructure projects in communities across the nation.

New York's governor unveiled a $168 billion spending proposal for the 2019 fiscal year during his annual budget address.

The ruling increases the body of law supporting strict legal protections for public pension benefits, the rating agency said.

Two former Texas school finance administrators, Oscar Cardenas and Steve Murray, joined Baird's public finance team.

The City Council unanimously to extend the deadline for the filing of the mayor’s preliminary Fiscal 2019 budget by two weeks to Feb. 1 as city officials digested state budget plans announced Tuesday.

The municipal bond market on Tuesday priced the first of the week’s big new issues, before buyers turned their focus to the high-rated, but high-yielding sales tax securitization coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

The court’s announcement on Friday that it will hear arguments in South Dakota v. Wayfair comes as lawmakers have been divided over the online sales tax issue.

Phil Murphy inherits a state government that was downgraded 11 times under predecessor Chris Christie.

Bankruptcy attorneys who work with local governments on project financing are paying attention.

In a small room at Little Walnut Creek Branch Library in North Austin, about a dozen community members sat face-to-face with the group of Austin residents tasked with an influential role in how hundreds of millions of tax dollars might be spent.