Midwest

The action set the stage for the city’s exit from direct state supervision later this month.

The deal absorbs the debt of newly acquired systems, and SSM says it will "materially" lower interest.

Illinois remains delinquent on transit aid payments, highlighting the need for RTA's working cash authorization.

Ballots cast on the Fort Madison School District's $30 million bond referendum earlier this month will be recounted.

The case involves as much as $100 billion in state and local sales tax revenue over the next decade, according the e-commerce retailers that are defendants in the lawsuit.

Local government public safety pension funds are armed with new funding enforcement mechanism.

The mayor's financial team is using the $10 million loan to settle a $6.6 million "dispute" with the school district.

The university plans to price $118 million of new money and refunding bonds this week, and to close the refunding deal in September.

Flint's pension liabilities are underfunded, its OPEB liabilities are not funded at all, and it faces a looming infrastructure bill.

The justices and attorneys both sides in a case involving South Dakota all appeared to prefer action by Congress to regulate this area of interstate commerce that has been forced on the high court by legislative gridlock.