Nebraska

Voters in three states approved Medicaid expansion, highlighting dozens of ballot measures around the country that will impact budgets and credit.

Gage County had consulted a bankruptcy attorney, who told officials it wouldn't qualify for Chapter 9.

Agencies across the country said the case filed by a Florida utility could expose them to "unprecedented" federal oversight of public power contracts.

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

Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.

Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota are vulnerable to a trade war, Moody's Investors Service says.

Voters approved Omaha Public Schools' $410 million bond referendum and another district's $510 million measure.

Failure at the ballot may require Omaha Public Schools to lean more on its general fund dollars for repairs needed to keep schools fully operational.

Employers in New York also are allowed to implement a 5% payroll tax as a way of paying some of their employees’ state income taxes.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $82.98 billion of debt last year, a 5% drop from 2016.

The governor wants to neutralize the effects of the new law to make it revenue-neutral for the state government.

Columbus Public Library Director Drew Brookhart has a lot to think about over the days, weeks and months ahead.

The Omaha City council is considering several revenue streams to support borrowing that would help finance a proposed $156 million streetcar system.

Lagging Nebraska tax revenue resulted in a new cut to the state’s revenue forecast.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $87.2 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 23.4% year-over-year increase that was the biggest of any region.

Most Nebraskans could see an income tax cut beginning in 2020 under a tax overhaul proposal Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Thursday.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts will deliver his State of the State address Thursday, which will focus on the release of a new two-year budget and his plan to deal with a $276 million deficit in the current budget.

Tax and bond measures found success in California and Washington on Election Day.

The Nebraska Farm Bureau says a community college’s $369 million bond question on the November ballot would lead to a massive property tax increase on farmers, business, and homeowners in southeast Nebraska.

Ralston, Nebraska’s general obligation arena bonds were dropped seven notches to junk by S&P Global Ratings after the project has struggled to produce the revenue needed to repay the debt.