Southeast

Florida legislators launched a new website to get public input on how to spend an estimated $22.6 billion over the next 20 years for conservation efforts.

The Atlanta City Council will let voters determine the fate of the city's backlogged infrastructure needs in a $252 million GO bond referendum set for March 17.

Public finance attorney Randy Hanna returned to practice at Bryant Miller Olive in January after serving as chancellor of the Florida College System.

The sewer system ratepayers seeking to overturn Jefferson County's bankruptcy plan objected to briefs submitted to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal by the National Association of Bond Lawyers and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association .

Standard & Poor's lowered its rating to CCC-minus from CCC on the Aliceville Governmental Utilities Services Corp., Ala.'s bonds citing nearly drained reserves.

Former Miami, Fla. budget director Michael Boudreaux is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court decided not to reconsider its decision to disqualify his immunity from a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.

Buena Vista, Va., will stop making payments on a golf course bond issue that its officials say has become an albatross around the small city's finances.

Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia formally closed on $600 million of federal loans for Silver Line rail project to Dulles Airport.

A three-mile segment of the Coalfields Expressway will be the first public-private partnership project to be built under West Virginia's new P3 law.

The Florida dirt bond sector, after retrenching dramatically during the financial crisis, is showing signs of recovery in both market activity and credit measures.