Georgia

Southeast issuers sold $37.63 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2016, a decline of 10.9% from the same period last year, even as new money deals increased.

Kutak Rock LLP has hired veteran bond attorney Thomas P. Lauth to join the firm’s public finance practice in Atlanta.

Georgia's chief financial officer Teresa MacCartney has received the Gloria Timmer Award from the National Association of Budget Officers during the organization’s annual meeting.

City of Atlanta and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority leaders will use the months ahead to persuade voters to support two half-cent sales tax increases for major transportation improvements.

The Internal Revenue Service may soon revoke the tax-exempt status of a Georgia housing corporation that for three consecutive years failed to file information returns on a $7.81 million bond issuance in 2013.

Georgia’s Oconee Regional Medical Center did not make its June 1 bond payment, and although the hospital said it plans to pay the debt, S&P Global Ratings sent its ratings to the bottom of the junk scale.

Triple-A rated Georgia will auction $1.4 billion of general obligation bonds Tuesday, with analysts seeing the state benefiting from six years of positive revenue performance.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said he would not discuss why he dismissed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport general manager Miguel Southwell and Watershed Management commissioner Jo Ann Macrina.

Atlanta signed a 20-year lease with Delta Wednesday that keeps the carrier based in the city and paves the way for a $6 billion capital expansion plan at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Douglass P. Selby will be the new head of public finance at Hunton & Williams, and John O’Neill will lead the public-private partnership practice group.

WellStar Health System expanded its hospital network to 11 from five after Friday’s closing on the acquisition of five hospitals from for-profit Tenet Health, and a merger with nonprofit West Georgia Health, but its ratings suffered.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority could pursue a portion of its $8 billion expansion plan under terms of a bill Georgia legislators passed shortly before adjourning.

Georgia saw state revenues jump a whopping 24.9% in February, although state officials said Internal Revenue Service security breaches helped skew the results by delaying refunds.

Improvement in Atlanta’s fiscal health led Moody's Investors Service to upgrade the city’s general obligation debt to Aa1 from Aa2.

In the Southeast, pent-up need for capital and low interest rates translated into a five-year high for bond issuance in 2015.

Georgia's recently enacted supplemental state budget dedicates $750 million to transportation projects.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s 5% budget increase for fiscal 2017 allots more funds for transportation and $850 million in bonds for capital projects.

Georgia State University teamed up with Atlanta-based Carter & Associates LLC to negotiate the purchase of Turner Field for a multi-use redevelopment project including a football stadium.

Standard & Poor's dropped Georgia's Oconee Regional Medical Center further into junk territory citing default as a "virtual certainty."

Georgia expects to save $421 million reconstructing a critical intersection in Atlanta by entering into a public-private partnership with North Perimeter Contractors.