Virginia

A squabble between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the state of Maryland appears to be moving towards a resolution which effects two major bridges in the Washington D.C. – Baltimore region.

Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger begins assembling her finance team by keeping the state's treasurer in place and naming Delegate Mark D. Sickles to serve as Virginia's next Secretary of Finance.

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.

A budget forecast prepared by the Virginia House Appropriations Committee shows tightening financial constraints in 2026 —including a higher cap on state and local tax deductions — could result in the state's issuing bonds.

The Virginia Port Authority wanted to secure the future of a key container shipping facilty. The result is the Bond Buyer's Southeast Deal of the Year.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

The Virginia Governor's race could put Democrats in charge of all three branches in the Old Dominion, as Abigail Spanberger goes up against Winsome Earle-Sears who has floated tapping the state's rainy-day fund to prop up Medicaid.

"The project is not dead," said the transportation planning board chair.

A TIF fund established by the Alexandria Industrial Development Authority supporting a troubled hotel renovation project in downtown Alexandria, Virginia, is reported to be in default.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is touting a $4.7 billion reserve fund as he prepares to leave office and possibly seek a presidential run while an academic study predicts headwinds for the state's economy.

The Virginia Port Authority will sell bonds to finance upfront rent payments for the privately owned Virginia International Gateway.

University of Virginia president James Ryan resigned under White House pressure as the Trump administration pushes higher education to comply with its ideology.

Volume in the Southeast was up 46% in 2024, led by Florida, where municipal bond sales more than doubled to $27.49 billion.

Both houses of the Virginia state government have advanced budget bills that include rebates to taxpayers from surpluses fattened by federal funding and robust tax collections, a trend that concerns policy experts.

The projects funded by the deal align with the city of Alexandria's goal to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030.

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.

As federal funding dries up, cites are searching for new funding sources.

Moody's has raised the senior bonds to Aa1 from Aa2 and assigned a stable outlook to them.

North Carolina is the latest state to eye using a P3 to build tolled express lanes amid insufficient state funding.