Missouri

A Kansas state legislative council will meet next month to keep a 2024 bond-financing law alive at the request of the Missouri-based Kansas City Chiefs.

After a special legislative session, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed legislation authorizing state-backed bonds for stadiums to keep teams in Missouri.

The St. Louis tornadoes came after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mothballed its tracker of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

The bond trustee filed notice of a settlement that would extend the maturity of the Industrial Development Authority of Platte County Zona Rosa bonds 30 years.

The Port Authority of Kansas City will decide whether to authorize $10 billion of taxable revenue bonds on behalf of a data center project with Google links.

Midwest market participants and researchers say the loss of the municipal bond tax exemption could cost the region's many smaller issuers market access.

Missouri lawmakers have opened a new salvo in the battle with Kansas over who gets to fund new stadiums for the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Chiefs.

George Joseph McLiney, Jr. founded municipal bond underwriting firm McLiney and Company. He was devoted to his family and small issuer clients.

The developer of a moribund mall in Cape Girardeau is the latest to receive bond-financed support from a local government for some of the costs of its project.

"The sheer magnitude" of this redevelopment project presented a challenge, but it stands a chance of succeeding where previous efforts have fallen short, Clay County Commissioner Scott Wagner said.