Southeast

Miami-Dade County will consider hiring special counsel to explore whether there's a tax issue with revenue bonds sold in 1996.

The IRS is auditing $80.2 million of capital improvement revenue bonds the Arborwood Community Development District, Florida issued in 2006.

The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority in central Florida hopes to take advantage of low market rates for savings and reduce its variable-rate exposure in a $463 million refunding Nov. 15.

South Carolina Department of Revenue officials are still rebounding from one of the largest computer hacking episodes in the country.

New Orleans City Council began its review of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposed budget for 2013 with a slate of non-controversial agency requests.

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell pitched his support for building the Atlanta Falcons a new stadium to hundreds of team supporters.

Jefferson County, Ala., commissioners approved new sewer rates that have already drawn protests from many quarters.

Sen. Bill Nelson is urging the head of the Treasury Department to carefully consider the Internal Revenue Service's tentative decision that the Village Center Community Development District in Florida is not a political subdivision, warning it contradicts state law and would chill investment in the state.

A federal judge has ordered Tampa Bay Water to pay $20 million in legal costs to an engineering firm the water supplier unsuccessfully sued this year.

Jefferson County, Ala.'s plan to factor corruption into future sewer system rate increases is setting the stage for another legal fight with the trustee for the system’s $3.2 billion of debt.