Southeast

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.

Florida's Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority will make its first venture into the bond market as a standalone credit next week with $454.8 million of new and refunding bonds.

Standard & Poor's bumped Orange County, N.C.'s general obligation rating up a notch to gilt-edge AAA.

A state-owned hospital that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hoped to lease for $35 million is worth only $20.9 million at best, according to a new appraisal of the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital.