Regions News from Bond Buyer

Burton brings 35 years of municipal sales experience, most recently at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Healthcare providers will receive nearly $12 billion in funding in fiscal 2027 with federal approval of the state's Medicaid directed payment programs.

With more than 25 years in executive leadership in Texas public education, Rees will develop bond underwriting opportunities in the state, a Stephens statement said.

The rising cost of living, demographics, and growing utility demands are reshaping the credit profiles of municipal issuers and public utilities for the worse.

Transit systems have to adjust to a new ridership reality, but some have reoriented service and prevented operating challenges from becoming credit problems.

Participants in a power panel at The Bond Buyer's Infrastructure conference discussed current trends and the way forward for public power.

Despite the approval, ongoing litigation is attempting to stop the incentives to the plant.

The $5.66 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 continues a voter-mandated plan to increase public safety spending.

Housing officials in several cities are already laying the groundwork that will enable them to take advantage of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed by Congress earlier this year even though funding has not yet been appropriated.

The American Society of Civil Engineers lowered its infrastructure grade for North Carolina to C-minus this year from C; three other Southeast states improved.

Chicago made the second half of its supplemental pension payment, fulfilling a budgetary pledge and assuaging concerns of aldermen and rating agencies.

A U.S. Appeals Court for the Tenth Circuit ruling vacated a lower court's permanent injunction against a project to expand the Gross Reservoir.

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to stable from negative on the Corpus Christi utility and S&P removed it from CreditWatch with negative implications.

Despite uncertainty created by federal policies and global turmoil, California's trade did not shrink; it shifted.

The Northern Illinois Municipal Power Agency returned to market for the first time in a decade as two of its three members re-evaluate their energy options.

Public backlash over data centers is affecting political positions in the mid-term elections and inspiring legislation in Loudoun County Va., the acknowledged front line of the debate.

As parties renewed arguments on the administrative expense claim, some judges probed the nature of the bondholders' contribution to PREPA.

The plan is estimated to cost about $1.8 billion for a rail system connecting downtown Oklahoma City to Edmond and Norman and $730 million for bus transit.

At stake is at least a $5.9 billion contract and the stability of electrical provision on the island.

Counties and states are moving ahead with replicable, bond-financed affordable housing funding models as new regulations designed to jump start community development are still working their way through the pipeline.