Georgia

Issuers across the Southeast sold $68.5 billion of bonds in 2017, a 5.8% year-over-year decrease.

Florida’s attorneys will argue to the U.S. Supreme Court that it should cap Georgia’s fresh water consumption.

Mayor Keisha Bottoms said housing affordability, transparency, public safety, education, and transportation are priorities.

Former Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee was fond of calling the decision to build a taxpayer-funded stadium for the Atlanta Braves the "biggest economic development deal in our county's history."

Georgia regulators said the private and public power owners can move forward with the Plant Vogtle project.

City officials said consolidating the boards will improve governance and result in stronger fund performance.

Decisions by Georgia and South Carolina regulators and lawmakers will affect the public owners of two nuclear projects.

Georgia's Public Service Commission begins new hearings on the nuclear reactor project Monday.

The Macon-Bibb Industrial Authority took one of the last steps Wednesday in finalizing inducement bonds totaling $565 million for three major developments.

The Georgia Public Service Commission will determine if the twin reactor project at Plant Vogtle will go forward.

The referendum asks voters in Mecklenburg County, N.C.’s to approve bonds for schools.

Augusta’s economic development agency on Thursday signed off on a $130 million industrial revenue bond issue to fund Starbucks’ plant expansion.

The U.S. Senate’s proposed spending plan would raise the cap on airports' passenger facility charges and expand airport improvement grants.

The Department of Energy approved $3.7 billion in loan guarantees for the Plant Vogtle project.

The Southeast must reassess risk after Hurricane Irma, according to a disaster recovery expert who forsees long-term impacts on state and federal policy.

Fitch Ratings said the increased costs to complete reactors at Plant Vogtle drove the downgrades.

The storms force us to consider the value of public assets in everyday life, the prospects for rebuilding with municipal financing, and the effects on credit quality.

The Georgia pubic power agency will use bonds and loans to complete its share of the project.

Corbally will advise endowments, foundations, pension funds, and other institutions.

The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia voted to finish the two reactors, but cost was not disclosed.