Southeast

Richland County, S.C., voters will vote in November to decide whether to impose a new property tax to bond-finance build and expand existing libraries.

The Miami-Dade County Commission wants the Justice department to dismiss its antitrust suit to block the merger of US Airways and American Airlines.

A panel Thursday postponed setting tolls for the Kentucky, Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project, and the delay could affect Kentucky’s bond sale later this year.

The Village Center Community Development District in Florida is urging the Internal Revenue Service to allow its $427.2 million of bonds to remain tax-exempt, claiming the IRS’ finding that the bonds are taxable alters long-standing and well-settled law and should not be retroactively applied.

Kentucky and Indiana will set tolls for the $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, which will support Kentucky bonds selling this year.

Alabama got $88 million more in bonuses for its Children's Health Insurance Program than allowed, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said.

Louisiana environmentalists say Gov. Bobby Jindal opposes a levee district's lawsuit because oil and gas interests contribute to his campaigns.

Georgia plans to remove tolls on the busy Georgia 400 on Nov. 21 and make the an early, final bond payment Dec. 1.

Calvin Grigsby is protesting Jefferson County, Ala.'s proposal to reject a claim for $1.63 billion in the county's bankruptcy case.

North Carolina will be open for public-private partnerships at all levels of government by mid-September thanks to an act passed earlier this year and signed by the governor.