Southeast

The findings of the State Budget Crisis Task Force show that Virginia is in a stronger fiscal position than other large states, but still must begin making changes to close persistent funding shorfalls.

Hoping to entice buyers looking for reinvestments in January, the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority sells up to $500M of bonds Thursday after a successful November issuance.

Mountain State University in West Virginia has redeemed its outstanding tax-exempt debt as the private nonprofit institution winds down its operations.

Public-private partnerships will take over operations in 2013 at three Louisiana State University hospitals and another one under construction.

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to negative from stable on the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority's Louisville arena revenue bonds.

National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. asked the judge overseeing the Jefferson County bankruptcy to order an examination of the county's budget and financial condition.

Some 98 muni professionals received awards in Smith's 20th annual All-Star program at a luncheon in New York last week. They were chosen by nearly 3,000 institutional investors.

The Georgia World Congress Center Authority Monday approved a preliminary agreement with the Atlanta Falcons to build a nearly $1 billion stadium.

Georgia's $583 million general obligation bond deals should sell well Tuesday and Wednesday since there aren't a lot of triple, triple-A rated state GO bonds available in good block sizes, a muni trader said.

Jefferson County officials have proposed a restructuring plan for a small piece of the bankrupt county's municipal debt that financed a courthouse. It's not clear what if anything that means for the county's more than $3 billion in sewer debt.