Southeast

Miami-Dade County hired Kroll Bond Rating Agency, believing its analysis can help attract investors to next week's $534 million bond issue for Miami International Airport.

As Louisiana’s regular legislative session winds down, lawmakers have given little attention to a bill that would allow the state to sell $875 million of tobacco revenue bonds.

The Florida Development Finance Corp. will meet June 10 to consider All Aboard Florida’s $1.75 billion bond resolution, though project opponents have questioned if the meeting would be legal.

Sponsors of a high-speed passenger rail train project in Florida want an authority to issue $1.75 billion of private-activity bonds for it as soon as June 22, while a U.S. District Court considers requests from two counties to enjoin or stop the Transportation Dept.’s allocation of the PABs to the project.

Standard & Poor's said Friday that it would be “unprecedented and significant” if triple-A rated Florida failed, for the first time ever, to adopt a state budget on time.

A federal judge hears arguments Friday on whether the private All Aboard Florida passenger train project can issue $1.75 billion in private activity bonds.

A North Carolina anti-toll group wants a judge to proceed with its lawsuit in an attempt to stop the state’s Interstate 77 toll project for which the P3 contract was finalized May 20.

The Florida Legislature will attempt to bridge an impasse over low income healthcare funding that has left the state without a fiscal 2016 budget and facing a government shutdown.

Special highways panel says West Virginia needs to increase transportation funding by $1.1 billion per year.

Orange County, Fla., plans to competitively price a $170 million tourist tax refunding deal Thursday that comes to market with three rating upgrades due to substantial growth in hotel revenues.