Florida

Orange County, Fla. says its recent GO bond upgrade to AAA from Kroll Bond Rating Agency will help the county negotiate better financial deals.

Florida's East Central Regional Wastewater Facilities Operation in Palm Beach County expects to sell the Southeast region's first green bonds.

Charges were dropped against one person after former Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board member Scott Batterson gets prison.

South Florida's Broward County School District wants voters to OK $800 million in GO bonds on Nov. 4, which leads a slate of referendums on ballots across the Southeast.

A Miami-Dade County committee has recommended a $9 million grant from GO bond proceeds for public infrastructure at the proposed SkyRise Miami project.

Four years after the Sunshine state passed a law authorizing PACE project financing, billions in bonds face legal challenges before the Florida Supreme Court.

All Aboard Florida , the proposed private passenger train service between Miami and Orlando, has applied for a $1.75B federal private activity bond allocation.

Florida's East Central Regional Water Reclamation Facility expects to enter the bond market for the first time as a new credit later this month.

Fitch plans to investigate how the comptroller for Florida State University's Boosters allegedly stole as much as $700,000.

S&P raised its ratings to A from A-minus on Southwest Florida International Airport bonds based on improving passenger loads and financials.

South Florida environmentalists filed suit Thursday to stop dredging of the channel to ready the PortMiami for opening of the expanded Panama Canal.

West Palm Beach, Fla., city commissioners voted Sept. 29 to create a Municipal Charter School Agency with a nine-member governing board.

S&P lowered its ratings to A-minus from A on bonds sold for Shands Teaching Hospital at the University of Florida, citing an upcoming $250M deal.

Growth in Florida's property insurance market will allow Citizens Property Insurance to defease $418 million in debt two years early.

Palm Beach County, Fla., tells two Major League Baseball teams seeking a new $140 million spring training stadium to revise their proposal for public financing.

The Federal Railroad Administration released a draft environmental statement for the new private passenger rail service All Aboard Florida.

All Aboard Florida, a private venture planning new passenger rail service from Orlando to Miami, is encountering headwinds from impacted communities.

The Village Center Community Development District in Florida, whose status as a political subdivision that can issue tax-exempt bonds has been disputed, is planning to price three issues of taxable refunding bonds next week.

A federal appeals court recently agreed with a lower court that former Miami budget director Michael Boudreaux does not have immunity from Securities and Exchange Commission charges, a decision some experts think could have implications for the SEC's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative or other enforcement actions going forward.

Problems with a bank loan led Fitch to become the second rating agency to act against Florida Gulf Coast University, placing its ratings on watch negative.