Georgia

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority will consider a consultant's recommendations to increase revenues, including outsourcing, advertising on buses and trains, and new fees.

The Georgia Transportation Board has agreed to a financing plan for the nearly $1 billion Northwest Corridor project that could see more than half of the cost funded with bonds.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Thursday morning granted Atlanta another 13 years to complete consent-related work on its massive sewer repair program.

The Atlanta City Council reauthorized a $350 million commercial paper program for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The Atlanta City Council last week agreed to pay a $136,000 settlement to the city's former chief financial officer, Joya De Foor.

Standard & Poor's dropped its rating two notches to B-plus from BB on revenue bonds issued for the Oconee Regional Medical Center in Georgia.

Atlanta is seeking a finance team to restructure a swap with UBS AG and to issue refunding bonds for its Department of Watershed Management.

The 131-year-old Morris Brown College in Atlanta was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after an investor holding $13 million of bonds demanded payment, or face foreclosure.

Talks are afoot to finalize a nearly $1 billion deal for a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons by year's end.

Municipal bond issuance in the Southeast during the first half of this year was up by 57% to $34 billion - nearly the same amount that was lost between 2011 and 2010.

Georgia asked four firms to bid on the Northwest Corridor project Thursday. The metro Atlanta congestion-reliever is estimated to cost up to $850 million.

A South Carolina judge has allowed the Georgia Ports Authority to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the deepening project in Savannah Harbor.

The nine Georgia regions encompassing 113 counties could face additional funding pressure due to rejection of transportation sales tax, according to Moody's.

Drought-stricken Georgia has approved the first round of projects financed with state-issued bonds that will help build reservoirs and other drinking water projects.

Jackson Securities LLC is being spun off by Atlanta Life Financial Group. Subject to regulatory approval, Jackson will merge with New York-based M.R. Beal & Co.

Voters in nine of 12 districts in Georgia Tuesday rejected raising the sales tax by 1% to pay for billions in transportation improvements. In the 11-county Atlanta region, among the most congested in the state, 62.6% of voters said no.

Voters across Georgia head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to raise the sales tax by 1% over the next decade to pay for transportation projects. The tax will raise more than $18 billion over 10 years.

Atlanta area political and business leaders have a solution to traffic that's ranked among the worst in the U.S.: Ask voters to approve a sales tax increase to raise $8.5 billion over a decade for roads and public transportation.

Two ports in Florida and one each in Georgia and South Carolina will see expansion projects expedited thanks to the Obama administration's "We Can't Wait Initiative."

Five consortiums have said they are interested in bidding on Georgia's nearly $1 billion Northwest Corridor project, the Atlanta-region congestion reliever that once was the state's first public-private partnership.