Southeast

The Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corp. on Monday announced that it received consent from a majority of bondholders to make changes in the indenture and the gas-purchase agreement relating to its Series 2006A and B bonds.

More people moved into Louisiana over the last two years than moved out, the U.S. Census said last week in a report on population patterns, marking a positive growth trend after more than 20 years of outflow.

The Louisiana Department of Revenue this week said that collections in the first four months of fiscal 2012 totaled $2.36 billion, up $96 million from the same period in fiscal 2011.

The trustees of the Caddo Parish Parishwide School District are scheduled to vote Jan. 17 on whether to call an April 21 election on a $133.8 million general obligation bond plan.

Fitch Ratings on Tuesday downgraded the South Florida Water Management District’s certificates of participation to AA-minus from AA, citing a new Florida law restricting the agency’s ability to raise revenues.

A construction firm convicted of fraud in connection with repairing Jefferson County’s sewer system has finally paid nearly $20 million in fines and court costs assessed more than five years ago, Alabama U.S. attorney Joyce White Vance said Friday.

Georgia's plan to develop statewide alternative drinking water projects funded with $300 million of state general obligation bonds is a credit-positive, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The independent financial advisory firm, C.D. Bowling & Associates in Lexington, Ky., has changed its name to Civic Finance Advisors LLC and added three new partners.

Alabama federal Judge Thomas Bennett Friday limited the power of the receiver managing Jefferson County's sewer system.

The Clay Gas Utility District of Clay County, Tenn., never made a payment on its bonds over the past decade. Now the district is offering to buy them for 10 cents on the dollar in a contingent tender offer.