Southeast

Issuers across the Southeast brought $71.7 billion of municipal bonds to market in 2016, a 3.3% year-over-year increase that was generated largely by refundings.

The Glades Correctional Development Corp. in south-central Florida said that it received a preliminary Internal Revenue Service determination that its 2006 bonds violate the private activity use test.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice wants a higher gasoline tax to support up to $2.8 billion of road bonds.

Facing another budget shortfall, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will ask lawmakers to take up tax and budget reform measures.

Projects in South Carolina’s $5 billion infrastructure request includes interstate highway upgrades and harbor dredging.

Lakeland Regional Health and Orlando Health disclosed to bondholders on EMMA that they have signed a letter of intent to create an integrated regional health care system.

Tennessee House GOP leaders are at odds with Republican Gov. Bill Haslam over road funding proposals.

North Carolina’s $38 billion of unfunded pension and retiree healthcare costs led a key committee to advise raising the state’s debt capacity and increasing annual funding to address the liabilities.

President Trump's "sanctuary city" order is expected to foreshadow more long-term turbulence for urban-federal relations as the president sought to force compliance with his objectives by threatening to cut federal funding.

A federal court should dismiss two lawsuits challenging bond financing for the All Aboard Florida train project because the new administration will review future private-activity bond applications, court filings said.