Washington

Moody's Investors Service affirmed the Aa1 rating of King County, Wash. limited tax general obligation bonds and the Aaa rating of its unlimited tax GOs.

Bonds have played a role in financing spaceports.

The District of Columbia's Chief Financial Officer will hand over nearly three years of internal audits and add a disclosure to the district's most recent debt issuance after a request from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

New York residents shoulder the highest state and local tax burdens at 12.8%, the Tax Foundation found in a new study.

Marcy Edwards, senior financial policy advisor to the District of Columbia's chief financial officer, has been named a public board member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, the MSRB announced Monday.

Seattle and King County leaders voted in favor of a memorandum of understanding to build a pro sports arena in the city's southern downtown area using $200 million of bonds.

Robert Henn, acting director of the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt bond office, will retire from the agency at the end of the year.

Jeanine Rodgers Caruso, president of Fiscal Advisors & Marketing Inc., is the new board president of the National Association of Independent Public Finance Advisors

The Securities and Exchange Commission hopes to finalize its definition of municipal advisor early next year, according to the head of the SEC's municipal securities office.

The District of Columbia will sell $900 million of income tax-secured bonds in November, the biggest amongst a rash of deals closing the calendar year.

Slide show of Puerto Rico Public Private Partnerships P3s

Middle-market, fixed-income dealer firms are adding staffers to their compliance divisions, part of an expensive effort to comply with a host of new financial regulations coming from Washington, D.C., some executives said at a meeting here.

Moody’s affirmed its underlying Aaa rating for Bellevue School District, Wash.'s $557 million of general obligation debt.

Washington's revenues collections saw a slight increase in September compared to the state’s June forecast.

Rep. Mike Coffman, R- Colo., has introduced legislation that would allow governmental and 501(c)(3) nonprofit bonds to be refunded a second time so that issuers and borrowers could save money by taking advantage of low interest rates.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Municipal Securities began reporting to SEC chairman Mary Schapiro as of Sept. 24, an attorney in the muni office said Thursday.

States have been operating in fiscal year 2013 for three months already and tax growth is expected to rise in between 1% and 4.9% in nearly three-quarters of the states for the third consecutive year, according to a new report.

Fluctuating fuel prices and a reluctance to raise on customers in a down economy could put pressure on public utilities credits in the near future, analysts from the three major credit agencies warn.