Southeast

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley told community and business leaders that state legislators have failed to act like leaders and resolve the state’s budget crisis.

Recent favorable market movement bodes well for Charlotte, N.C., to price $463 million of water and sewer refunding bonds Thursday.

University of North Carolina professor Pab Jotikasthira wins the James A. Lebenthal Memorial prize for best paper submitted at the Brandeis Municipal Finance Conference.

The Alabama Legislature failed to reach agreement on a general fund budget for fiscal 2016, necessitating a second special session.

A taxpayer bill of rights passed by the North Carolina Senate Finance Committee could threaten the state’s coveted gilt-edged ratings, according to State Treasurer Janet Cowell, who said she opposes the newly surfaced legislation.

Continuing patient losses and a 2014 Department of Justice settlement factored into Moody's two-notch downgrade for King's Daughters Medical Center in Kentucky.

Louisiana dodged a rating downgrade ahead of an upcoming bond sale amid ongoing concern over the state budget's structural imbalance.

All Aboard Florida, the nation's first privately owned passenger rail, plans to quickly begin marketing $1.75 billion of private activity bonds after a key vote sealing the deal late Wednesday.

The North Carolina House puts a proposed $1.7 billion road infrastructure plan on fast track.

The Alabama Legislature and Gov. Robert Bentley remain far apart on an operating budget with less than a month to go before the new fiscal year begins.