Southeast

For a second year, Georgia is poised to eclipse Florida in authorizing new-money bonds in their state budgets.

North Carolina’s first female governor will not seek a second term.

Adding toll lanes to the proposals for upgrading portions of U.S. 90 to Interstate standards in the Lafayette area could provide up to half of the financing, according to a new traffic study.

Kentucky has begun the search for contractors interested in designing and building its portion of the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project.

Voters in the small town of Fort Myers Beach on Florida’s southwest coast overwhelmingly rejected bonds for a new city hall Tuesday, with 87% voting against the sale of $7 million of 30-year general obligation bonds secured by property taxes.

Houston Astros owner James Crane won part of his request for federal bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett to limit Jefferson County, Ala.’s access to his lawsuit against JPMorgan.

BRADENTON, Fla. — A libertarian think tank is disputing the savings that might occur if two high-profile Florida expressway authorities are partially consolidated with the state-run Turnpike Enterprise.

JPMorgan and Houston Astros owner James Crane are fighting an Alabama bankruptcy judge's order to open Crane's confidential settlement with the bank over $35 million of Jefferson County's defaulted auction-rate sewer warrants.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is proposing to fund his state's half of the massive $2.6 billion Ohio River Bridges Project with federal funds and toll revenue bonds over the next six years.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Ballard Spahr LLP has added its first public finance attorney to the law firm's Atlanta office.