Kansas

The chapter had financial difficulty before the pandemic and wanted to refinance its debt.

Although the pandemic disrupted regular Manhattan-Ogden school operations for the rest of the school year, there's been the small silver lining that construction crews on several district bond projects can start their work, or at least preparation for it, a little earlier.

Laura Kelly is promoting the plan as an economic stimulus.

Richard G. Bartow and his son Richard T. Bartow joined the office this week and will focus on K-12 education.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's $7.8 billion budget calls for an extension of pension obligations while paying down other debt and boosting reserves.

China's recently announced suspension of U.S. agricultural imports escalated trade-related risks to U.S. agriculture, said Fitch Ratings.

Refundings rebounded in the first half of 2019, but total bond volume across the Southwest fell to a six-year low.

Although first-term Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly failed to win expansion of Medicaid coverag, she praised GOP lawmakers for beginning to clean up "a mess."

Shawnee County, Kansas, commissioners on Monday morning approved by a 3-0 vote a resolution to issue about $13 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for a shopping development in west Topeka.

While JPMorgan Chase will see a public-private prison in Kansas through to completion, private financing as an alternative to municipal bonds is on the way out.

The number of states aiding school districts with pension costs is expected to grow as pension burdens escalate.

When they met Monday, the Leavenworth, Kansas, Board of Education were briefed on plans for capital projects that will be funded largely with money from a bond issue that was approved last year.

The region's municipal bond industry insiders saw a silver lining in a 21% increase for new money volume.

The Garden City Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a charter ordinance that would give the city significantly more freedom in addressing general improvements and issuing general obligation bonds for certain projects.

Despite rising revenues, Kansas will still need to make adjustments to its budget because of rising demands, S&P Global Ratings says.

Bonds issued under Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback would be paid off more rapidly under a proposal from his Democratic successor, Laura Kelly.

The new office staffed by veteran banker Greg Vahrenberg will focus on Kansas and Missouri issuers.

Gov.-elect Laura Kelly will enjoy rising revenues and prospects for Medicaid expansion but still faces a GOP-dominated legislature.

The city in Kansas will issue sales tax and revenue bonds to subsidize about half the cost of an $80 million minor-league baseball stadium.

The three states are in the bottom of a ranking of state fiscal conditions by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.