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Upper Arlington Schools District Superintendent Dr. Paul Imhoff said an upcoming vote on an operating levy will be harder to secure.

Bank qualified debt, also known as BQ debt and bank eligible, allows banks to deduct most of the carrying cost of those bonds as a business cost.

A PFM letter caused a firestorm among dealer groups who say that if municipal advisors want to engage in broker-dealer activities, they need to register as such.

Submissions are now open for the Bond Buyer’s fourth class of Rising Stars, an honor which showcases the brightest young minds in the municipal bond industry.

A city called the "double black diamond" of car driving is at the epicenter for autonomous-vehicle testing.

The new events became effective in late February, and hundreds of Event 15 disclosures have filed in, with just a handful of Event 16 filings.

The Oversight Board has reached an agreement with the Committee of Retirees that makes a flat 8.5% cut to pensions over $1,200 a month and does not change payments to the 61% of current retirees who receive monthly pensions of $1,200 or less.

A judge's decision looms for men accused of bilking the Connecticut Municipal Energy and Electric Cooperative, which got good news from Fitch Ratings last week.

State and local governments and trade groups have until Sept. 13 to submit comments on the 48-page exposure draft GASB released June 13.

More municipalities are turning to local solutions, including P3s and value capture structures.

A strong economy has resulted in more success for tolled managed lanes than many skeptics anticipated.

The agreement “would increase prices by up to 21%” and it’s “highly unlikely PREPA will be able to completely offset the legacy debt charges,” resulting in “considerably higher electricity rates for decades to come,” said the letter signed by four senators and 32 House members.

Municipal issuers are benefiting from lower interest rates and investor demand that seem at least partly driven by the nearly constant talk of tariffs and trade wars.

State governments generally are better prepared for an economic downtown than at any other time since the National Association of State Budget Officers began keeping records in 1988.

The judge ruled for Peter Cannava, who had denied wrongdoing even after Wells Fargo and other defendants settled charges.

The limit on the SALT deduction caused an estimated 10.88 million individual taxpayers to lose $323.1 billion in tax deductions for the 2018 tax year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported in February.

States struggle to reap the full benefits of the multibillion-dollar legal marijuana industry becuase of conflicts with federal law.

Under the bill, if more than 65% of carbon dioxide emissions from a given facility are captured and injected underground, then 100% of the eligible equipment can be financed with PABs.

The association filed a court brief supporting Indian River County’s appeal of private activity bonds for the privately owned passenger train project.

The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to settle with Oyster Bay, New York, and are awaiting a district court judge's approval.