Southeast

Inova Health System hopes to play on its strength as the largest nonprofit heath-care provider in northern Virginia next week when it sells $500 million of double-A rated bonds.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded the bond rating on Davis Health System, W.Va., to Ba2 from Ba1.

Louisiana needs to do a better job in tracking hundreds of tax exemptions and credits, the president of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana Inc., said.

Two ports in Florida and one each in Georgia and South Carolina will see expansion projects expedited thanks to the Obama administration's "We Can't Wait Initiative."

The Bank of New York Mellon says a suit seeking class-action status in Jefferson County's bankruptcy case is "a procedurally improper attempt to pursue frivolous claims."

A panel of 14 Louisiana state legislators is reviewing more than 400 tax exemptions that cost the state between $4 billion and $7 billion a year.

The SEC will be asked to allow federal civil charges to be filed against Miami for failing to disclose serious budget problems in its bond offerings.

Sussex County board member Eric Fly voiced his concern over the process and the plan itself, "The whole process is backwards. VDOT isn't going to give the public any time to voice their opinion prior to submitting their final application to the Federal Highway Administration. They clearly know that the public is against the idea and are therefore trying to jam it through before any public comment.

Five consortiums have said they are interested in bidding on Georgia's nearly $1 billion Northwest Corridor project, the Atlanta-region congestion reliever that once was the state's first public-private partnership.

Louisiana's chain of 10 state hospitals that serve 1.2 million low income and disabled Louisianians are imperiled by a sudden and severe cut in federal funds for the program.