Ohio

The state plans to price $190 million of general obligation highway capital improvement bonds.

After years of struggling, Columbus-based Ohio Dominican University is showing signs of turning around enrollment declines.

In addition to the local bond measures, voters will also decide seven governor's races and a Missouri fuel tax.

The Toledo, Ohio-based healthcare operator will sell $1.5 billion of bonds next week, of which $1.2 billion will be taxable.

About $125 million of the new money bonds are fixed-rate, $50 million will be floating-rate notes, and $75 million are variable-rate demand bonds.

ProMedica is seeking up to $870 million in revenue bonds for construction and facilities projects.

The city wants to leverage what it considers a special electoral relationship with voters through a newly-established investment program.

Columbus and Cincinnati are faring better than Cleveland and many other regions of Ohio, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The school is expanding its housing offerings as part of a strategy to attract and retain students.

The median net pension liability in the nation’s 15 largest cities jumped 16% on a per capita basis in fiscal 2017, S&P Global Ratings said Wednesday.

The Midwest's public and private universities are straining to deal with enrollment losses.

Cleveland Hopkins is planning to issue $90.3 million of series 2018 A refunding bonds and $21 million of series 2018B bonds.

Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

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

S&P Global Ratings dropped the Ohio-based system four notches to BBB.

The Ohio Market Access Program is designed to lower local governments' costs when issuing short-term notes.

As the nation’s most populous state with the largest economy, California could set the upper level benchmark for other large states such as Florida and New York that have not yet announced a sales tax remittance threshold.

The Hutchinson Shockey name will continue after its acquisition by Ohio-based Huntington Bancshares.

Regional shifts in population portend credit challenges for U.S. states, Fitch Ratings analysts say.

S&P is the second ratings service to warn of possible downgrade because of the system's growing debt burden.