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The Federal Railroad Administration is embracing a pro-business approach regarding emerging technology and funding rail crossing improvements.

"Clearly, issuers still need access to this very important financing tool," said State of Michigan Treasurer Rachael Eubanks, who also serves as this year's president of the National Association of State Treasurers.

"It became clear our residence halls were a constraint and not an asset for our university," WKU president Timothy Caboni said.

Kevin Warsh's nomination to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve passed through the Senate Banking committee in a party-line vote.

Three University of Chicago public policy graduate students devised a Stadium Securitization Corporation, modeled after Chicago's Sales Tax Securitization Corp.

Muni yields increased "in sympathy with the Treasury market," according to Charles Schwab's Cooper Howard.

Fitch, Moody's, and S&P were sent a letter from 23 GOP state attorneys general over the use of ESG factors related to fossil fuel in negative rating actions.

Fitch Ratings cited Sacramento City Unified School District's fiscal challenges in downgrading its issuer default rating to junk and assigning a negative outlook.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton argues MRBs can add value to conservative muni sleeves, but warns that extraordinary redemption features, prepayment behavior, loan origination performance and liquidity constraints can make redemption analysis just as important as credit analysis.

The state supreme court is hearing the case that affects $5 billion in authorized bonds, $150 million that have been issued.