Southeast

Birmingham, Ala.-based Balch & Bingham LLP will expand its public finance practice next month with the addition of the seven bond attorneys from Presley Burton & Collier LLC.

A $300 million bond issue designed to keep tolls down on the controversial Dulles Toll Road may be in jeopardy as the Virginia General Assembly votes on a proposed budget that does not include the authorization for the debt.

Memphis-headquartered Pinnacle Airlines Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization on Sunday.

Preliminary, unaudited figures indicate New Orleans balanced its budget in 2011, according to chief administrative officer Andy Kopplin.

A proposal to issue $325 million of revenue bonds to upgrade and repair state rural roads was approved by the Louisiana House Tuesday without a dissenting vote.

The Georgia Department of Transportation said Tuesday it and federal agencies have officially begun preparation of an environmental impact statement on the proposed multi-modal passenger terminal in Atlanta.

Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday placed the A3 rating on Tampa General Hospital’s debt on review for possible downgrade.

As Birmingham, Ala., continues to plan a referendum on a $75 million bond issue, the local school superintendent is proposing to ask voters for a tax increase, according to the Birmingham News.

Standard & Poor's issued its first public rating of a public-private partnership in the United States, a BBB-minus for a project to build a tunnel under the Elizabeth River between Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The South Carolina Public Service Authority Tuesday prices $575 million of tax-exempt and taxable revenue bonds, much of which will further work on two new nuclear units cleared for licensing by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week.