Southeast

PFM Management Services LLC will advise special districts throughout the country.

S&P cited the system's structural challenges, physical risk exposure and uncertainty about the system's overall financial and operational trajectory.

Despite headwinds in the higher education sector, Louisiana State has enjoyed rising undergraduate enrollment.

Virginia and Georgia topped the list of high performers and Alaska and California received the lowest marks in the Reason Foundation's analysis.

The deal includes a current refunding of general obligation bonds issued in 2016 and a tender offer for bonds that have not yet reached their call date.

S&P Global Ratings cited the state's structurally balanced budgets and progress on improving the finances of its pension system.

The rating agency cited weak demand for the facilities.

FEMA must speed its very slow disbursement of aid, many observers say.

Such a bank would be a "revolving financing tool that allows us to stretch dollars further, leverage federal programs without surrendering control, and deliver more projects without raising taxes," Gov. Jeff Landry said. 

The offer was revealed in a disclosure statement and plan of reorganization in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy.