Southeast

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday downgraded Port St. Lucie, Fla.’s senior-lien utility revenue bonds to A1 from Aa3.

The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority, which oversees the 3.5-mile Garcon Point toll bridge in northwest Florida, has canceled its June 13 meeting.

The Jefferson County, Ala., Commission has scheduled the first of three public hearings on sewer rates, which provide the revenue securing the county’s $3.14 billion of defaulted sewer warrants.

WASHINGTON — The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority voted on Wednesday to drop a controversial labor agreement from Phase II procurement for its $6 billion, 23 mile metrorail extension project to the Dulles International Airport.

More than a dozen Birmingham residents, including two City Council members and two Alabama lawmakers, on Monday filed a $1.63 billion claim in Jefferson County's Chapter 9 bankruptcy case.

In a move that is likely to make Virginia the leading state for public-private partnerships, Gov. Robert McDonnell has announced 22 transportation and infrastructure projects that may be developed as P3s.

WASHINGTON — Private firms have until July 12 to submit bids to operate the Port of Virginia as part of a public-private partnership, an opportunity created by the Virginia Department of Transportation after it received an unsolicited P3 proposal.

DALLAS — The Louisiana House met in an unusual Sunday session to adopt a $25.6 billion budget for fiscal 2013 that includes $272 million of one-time revenue to balance the spending plan.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley Thursday selected 105 road and bridge improvement projects for the first round of funding in the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program, or ATRIP.

DALLAS — The Louisiana Senate unanimously adopted a fiscal 2013 budget Thursday that relies on non-recurring revenues and proceeds from state property sales to restore more than $300 million of spending taken out earlier by the House.