Missouri

Piper Sandler has hired Joe Kinder and Brent Blevins as managing directors on its public finance team. Both will focus on Missouri school districts and issuers.

Missouri's Kansas City Public Schools is looking to take its modernization plan to voters and seek approval for a $474 million GO bond measure next April.

Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft's office said the ruling was "not just legally deficient but also morally wrong."

The St. Louis-based senior-living facilities operator has almost $80 million in bonds outstanding.

Missouri this month kicked off construction on a major expansion of Interstate 70, financed with a mix of bonds, general revenue funds and some federal funding.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, recently vetoed anti-ESG legislation similar to Missouri's, saying that it overstepped legal authority.

Convention centers in Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis are being upgraded, although cost increases after the pandemic added challenges to some financings.

In a one-day special session, lawmakers passed a bill expanding an economic development bond program to finance venues for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals.

Legislative leaders want the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs to weigh in on a plan to use bonds for a new stadium on their side of the state line.

With cyberattacks on the rise, issuers have had to keep fortifying their defenses against criminals targeting the public sector. 

This spring brings a bevy of school referendums in the Midwest. With inflation and property tax fatigue, voters may be increasingly reluctant to say yes.

In an April 2 special election, voters in Jackson County, home of Kansas City, will decide whether to impose a sales tax to fund a new baseball ballpark.

Bond trustee UMB Bank notified bondholders that Branson Airport's leaders want to pursue federal grant funding for maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, but it will require bondholder approval.

Nearly half of America's private colleges and universities reported negative operating margins in fiscal year 2023, and the trend was even worse in the Midwest.

The bond trustee for the city of Nevada, Missouri-owned Nevada Regional Medical Center declared its bonds to be in default.

A federal judge rejected every one of Missouri's arguments for why SIFMA's lawsuit should be dismissed.

The top five bond financings have an average dollar volume of more than $1 billion.

St. Louis County Council approved $155 million in tax breaks for the company and the state added $37.7 million to the pot.

"Under my rule, pension-fund and asset managers are still able to offer ESG products in Missouri," said Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft.

S&P Global Ratings placed Maryland Heights, Missouri, on credit watch with negative implications because of bonds from a related authority for a hockey rink.