Southeast

BRADENTON, Fla. — Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. plans to sell up to $900 million of revenue bonds to provide liquidity for the upcoming hurricane season, which begins June 1.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Appalachian State University in northwestern North Carolina Tuesday will competitively sell $60.14 million of general revenue bonds.

WASHINGTON — The Bartram Park Community Development District in Jacksonville, Fla., has received an audit notice from the Internal Revenue Service for $28.7 million of special assessment municipal bonds issued in 2005.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government is ­negotiating the use of a public-private partnership and bond financing to assist in the reopening of the Kentucky Kingdom theme park.

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Virginia lawmakers are ramping up pressure on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to reverse an April decision that approved an expensive, underground metro station at the Dulles International Airport as part of the agency’s $6.6 billion Metrorail extension project.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Standard & Poor’s last week revised its outlook on Tennessee’s AA-plus general obligation bond rating to positive from stable, citing an economic recovery that could result in a third gilt-edged rating.

DALLAS — A Louisiana bill proposing $3 billion of revenue bonds for state road projects died in a legislative committee Tuesday when its sponsor voluntarily deferred it due to opposition from lawmakers and Gov. Bobby Jindal. The bill would have raised the state’s private-vehicle registration fee to $30 from $10 to support up to $3 billion of bonds for 42 projects in 27 parishes.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co. is expanding its reach in the Northeast region with the addition of two veteran public finance bankers.

DALLAS — Louisiana lawmakers will consider a resolution this week to require legislative approval of a plan to issue revenue bonds to finance a proposed new state hospital in New Orleans.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Florida Legislature is poised to approve a $68 billion budget for fiscal 2012 on Friday and end its 60-day regular annual session on time.