Southeast

BRADENTON, Fla. — The first team in the National Football League to play in a privately financed stadium now wants as much as $225 million of public funds to bring its 24-year-old facility up to “world-class” ­standards.

BRADENTON, Fla. — North Florida’s Mid-Bay Bridge Authority expects to price $170 million of new and refunding springing-lien revenue bonds Thursday.

BRADENTON, Fla. — On his third day in office, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal unveiled a $37.54 billion budget for fiscal 2012 that recommends $563 million of bonds and a four-year plan to borrow $300 million for reservoirs.

WASHINGTON — Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell touted his $4 billion transportation spending plan ­Wednesday during a state of the commonwealth speech in which the Republican reaffirmed his intention to privatize state liquor stores and proposed a state employee contribution plan to ­reduce the retirement pension ­liability.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority in the Florida Panhandle made its January debt-service payment, but its July payment is in doubt and most board members overseeing the credit have now resigned.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Though inaugural festivities were curtailed by a major winter storm blowing through the Deep South, Nathan Deal was sworn in Monday as the 82nd governor of triple-A rated Georgia.

BRADENTON, Fla. — A $500 million cost-cutting proposal for the $4.1 billion Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project could result in a review of federal approvals for the mega-project, a Kentucky transportation spokesman said.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority in Florida will use the proceeds from $750 million of short-term, tax-exempt revenue bonds to provide initial financing for one of the first state-of-the-art waste-to-energy facilities to be built in the U.S. in many years.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Fulton County, Ga.’s water and sewer revenue bonds to Aa3 from Aa2 , citing the system’s weakened financial position and narrowed debt-service coverage.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Based on current revenue projections and existing borrowing plans, Florida does not have capacity to issue debt for new programs for the next two fiscal years and stay within its self-imposed debt cap.