South Carolina

Only Georgia has a higher state-level infrastructure grade from the ASCE than the the C the U.S. received this week. More in the Southeast are C-minus or lower.

Plaintiffs are challenging Oconee County's use of general obligation bonds repaid by taxpayers countywide to fund sewer improvements serving a small area.

The Fitch Ratings commentary considered ratings of airports in Florida, Nevada and South Carolina, which are most dependent on the airline for passenger traffic.

The borrowers had failed to make principal payment on November 1 due date, but have since remitted the funds.

Nashville, Tennessee, voters approved a $2 billion bond measure, while Lancaster County, South Carolina, and Cary, North Carolina, opposed the bond referendums.

Large measures to authorize or support bonds are on the menu in several of the region's largest cities and suburbs.

Florida's catastrophe fund will weather the storm and shouldn't need reinforcements yet. Two Florida-related sales are still expected next week.

The bank was one of 225 credits Moody's placed on review for possible upgrade July 25 when it released a revised rating methodology.

Oconee County using bond proceeds for a sewer that will benefit only some residents may violate the state constitution.

Challenges to laws banning investment banks from underwriting municipal bonds and the targeting of other financial firms for divestment purposes may result from a recent Oklahoma ruling.