Southeast

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards wants coastal protection projects added to the president's high-priority infrastructure list in order to receive expedited federal approval.

Sports industry consultant Dave Howard will lead Florida’s privately owned passenger train project as Fortress Investment Group explores expanding All Aboard Florida’s Brightline-branded service to other states.

Florida legislative leaders signaled they are out of lockstep with the governor's policies on economic development, borrowing, and state spending as their legislative session began this week.

The Glades Correctional Development Corp. in south-central Florida shorted its March 1 debt-service payment, the trustee said in a notice, as the date for a taxable bond exchange approaches due to an IRS ruling.

California efforts to embed more consumer protections into PACE loans are advancing on two tracks.

Gov. Roy Cooper received quick pushback from North Carolina’s GOP-led General Assembly to his first budget, which proposes 4.5% in more state spending in fiscal 2018 as well as expanding Medicaid.

Public finance attorneys Kenneth Pollock and Laurie Schwartz are working in Butler Snow’s Atlanta office and Jamie Garner is in the firm’s Macon office.

Bond insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. has gone to federal court seeking the keys to Buena Vista, Virginia’s city hall and compensatory damages after the city defaulted on ACA-wrapped debt that financed a golf course.

Saying lawmakers have failed to offer alternatives to address West Virginia’s $500 million budget gap, Gov. Jim Justice revised his fiscal 2018 budget to propose new taxes on sugary sodas, cigarettes, and wealthy state residents.

Credit concerns are mounting over the financial stability of Toshiba Co., parent of the company building partly municipal bond-financed nuclear units in South Carolina and Georgia.