Florida

Florida-based Community Capital's portfolio manager Julie Egan and chief investment officer Barbara VanScoy will take new positions with industry groups January.

Running up against a deadline that could bring federal fines, Miami-Dade County commissioners demanded to know why their massive sewer plan isn't farther along.

Fitch Ratings affirmed ratings on Miami's bond issues citing improved finances but said there is fiscal uncertainty due to legal challenges.

Pro baseball teams in the Southeast are scoring new ball parks with mixed-use entertainment districts to enhance the fan experience in and outside of the game.

Ocala in north-central Florida is pursuing "Project Homerun," the city's plan to steal the New York Yankees' Class A Minor League Team from Tampa.

Florida-based Bryant Miller Olive PA hired three new attorneys to expand the firm's public finance practice.

Tax law and rulings don't support the IRS' position that the Village Center Community Development District in Florida is not a political subdivision and cannot issue tax-exempt bonds, tax law professor Ellen P. Aprill contends.

Texas voters approved a $2 billion water bond program Tuesday in the largest of many bond related issues voters decided in the off-year.

The Internal Revenue Service has closed an audit of series 2005E and series 2007B hospital revenue bonds issued by the Highlands County, Fla. Health Facilities Authority with no change to the bonds’ tax-exempt status.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi settled foreign currency transaction charges and securities lending issues with Bank of New York Mellon for $28 million.

The IRS completed an examination into $153 million of bonds issued by Miami in 2007 without a change in tax exempt status.

Orlando, Fla., is planning to sell as much as $304.5 million early next year, part of which will provide partial funding for a Major League Soccer-ready stadium.

Miami and its former budget director Michael Boudreaux are urging a federal district court to dismiss the securities fraud charges the Securities and Exchange Commmision filed against them in July for disclosure failures.

Fitch downgraded the rating of Florida's Citrus Memorial Hospital to B-minus from B after the embattled hospital paid off some bank bonds early.

Tampa Bay Water, a regional supplier on Florida's mid-west coast, will pay more than $20.6 million to the engineering firm it sued over alleged design flaws in a reservoir.

BioNitrogen Holdings plans to build seven bond-financed plants using a proprietary biomass conversion process to make fertilizer in Louisiana and Florida.

Early voting is under way in Miami-Dade County where voters are being asked to approve $830 million in general obligation bonds for the public Jackson Health System.

Internal Revenue Service officials are taking a position in the tax dispute over $427.2 million of bonds issued by the Village Center Community Development District that they previously said they would not take, according to the CDD's lawyer.

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund should be less reliant on using municipal bonds to pay its bills in the future, and work on decreasing its exposure, the advisory board was told.

Florida will support Mississippi's federal lawsuit protesting large increases in national flood insurance premiums with a "friend of the court" brief.