Infrastructure

The authority's officials have adjusted to the hit from COVID-19 through toll hikes, capital plan reductions and lines of credit.

The House is expected to approve a stopgap funding measure that suspends the debt ceiling and marks one of several partisan showdowns ahead of the looming fiscal year-end.

Concerns range from frayed infrastructure to better communication in the face of the deadly flash flooding that caught the city by surprise in storm Ida.

While the city has a long history of coping with disasters including the Sept. 11 attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic is a work in progress.

The Long Island utility intends to sell electric system general revenue bonds in three tranches.

The former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman pledged his "support, service, and assistance" to Gov. Hochul and her administration, but not in the ESDC role.

The Bond Buyer is seeking industry-wide input on environmental, social and governance factors in the public finance space.

California's drought makes the argument that the San Diego County Water Authority's choice to build a P3 coastside desalination plant was correct.

The absence of advance refunding and a direct-pay bond program in the bipartisan infrastructure package has lobbyists pushing for inclusion of those things in the reconciliation bill, a matter only weeks away.

Cooper Howard, director of fixed income strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, talks with Chip Barnett about what municipal bond investors can expect in the second half of the year – low yields and strong fundamentals. He looks at continuing bond fund inflows, rising taxable issuance and compressed spreads. (14 minutes/Taped Aug. 3).