Southeast

Louisiana and NASA are looking at creating a “Space Campus” in New Orleans out of an existing NASA assembly facility to drive economic development.

The budget, a continuation from the previous fiscal year, was called too austere by some critics.

A state appeals court ruled that the Palm Beach County School District violated state law by excluding charter schools from a voter-approved tax levy.

The office designs and implements a plan that coordinates statewide resilience and disaster recovery efforts.

They assumed their jobs over the past year in the face of a pandemic, civil unrest and financial uncertainties, and in an industry often set in its ways.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $600 million of outflows from municipal bond mutual funds as the market correction caught up. High-yield funds lost a massive $722 million after $330 million a week prior.

Municipal bond issuers in the Southeast sold $76.91 billion of bonds in 1,152 issues in 2020, putting volume slightly ahead of 2019, according to Refinitiv data.

Municipal issuers in the Southeast sold $76.9 billion of bonds in 2020; $3.5 billion for Florida's Hurricane Catastrophe Fund was the region's biggest deal.

The deal was the largest in the authority’s history, with the lowest ever interest rate for one of its sales and netting a record-breaking $112 million in interest cost savings.

The Kentucky Kingdom amusement park, which leases its property from the Kentucky State Fair Board, will now be run by the well-seasoned operator of Dollywood.