Southeast

Tennessee sold $170.5 million of general obligation bonds on Nov. 14 at the lowest overall interest rates in more than 40 years, state officials said.

Including more poor residents in Louisiana’s Medicaid health-care program would cost the state almost $4 billion over 10 years, the head of the state health department said.

Kentucky has chosen Walsh Construction Co. to build the so-called “downtown crossing,” Kentucky’s share of the massive Ohio River Bridges Project.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will seek an additional $50 million in funding for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project

George K. Baum & Co. hired David Adams as a senior vice president to open the firm's Southeast public finance office in Charlotte, N.C.

Miami-Dade County hopes retail investors will take interest in a $790.05 million offering this week to refund bonds sold for Miami International Airport.

The Virginia College Building Authority will sell nearly $400 million of highly-rated bonds in a competitive sale Wednesday, to what commonwealth officers expect will be high demand.

Louisiana will use proceeds from $110 million of bonds to build a two-mile segment of an interstate highway project that will link Midwest industries to Gulf ports.

Two Virginia groups representing local governments have joined the opposition to Gov. Bob McDonnell's and the state Department of Transportation's plan to toll Interstate 95.

Florida's Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which is in default of more than $116 million of toll bonds, may lose insurance and board members. It is also unclear if bondholders will be paid Jan. 1.