Southeast

Kentucky plans to use bond financing to partially fund upgrading high-speed Internet access across the state through fiber optic lines.

Louisiana will use non-recurring revenue to defease $210 million of bonds to help close a deficit in the 2015 budget even though it will create a shortfall in 2016.

Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority will complete funding of a rail line to Dulles International Airport with May's negotiated sale of $450 million of toll revenue bonds.

A North Carolina Interstate toll project aimed at congestion relief faces growing resistance from opponents that want the federal highways to remain freeways.

Slow property tax growth will force Florida's local governments to rely on non-tax revenue for operations, leaving less for debt service payments, Moody's said.

One judge was used to the limelight, the other wasn't. But Thomas Bennett and Mary France found themselves in the glare as they oversaw high-profile Chapter 9 cases.

Memphis, Tenn., recently closed on the sale of $208 million of general obligation bonds after a marketing effort that allowed underwriters to drop yields.

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in Kentucky expects to competitively sell about $61.71 million of bonds on April 22 in order to redeem $60.47 million of Build America Bonds that it issued in 2010, an issuer official said.

Florida's pension plan for public employees faces new reform measures in the Legislature though it is considered well-funded compared with many other states.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear vetoed enabling legislation for statewide use of public-private partnerships late Friday saying it was wrong to enshrine in law a toll ban on a long-planned $3.5 billion bridge project.