Southeast

The Tennessee State School Bond Authority plans to competitively sell $245 million of tax-exempt and taxable higher education revenue bonds Wednesday.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Mississippi Legislature was expected to be in a special session today deciding whether to approve $50 million of bond financing and other incentives for a biofuels company.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority in northwest Florida has been notified that its guaranteed investment-contract provider wants to terminate its contract, according to authority attorney Roy Andrews.

DALLAS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will make a $1.8 billion lump-sum payment to public school districts in Orleans Parish to rebuild or replace facilities damaged five years ago by Hurricane Katrina. The parish has the same boundaries as the city of New Orleans.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Gilt-edged Huntsville in northern Alabama plans to price $174 million of new-money and refunding general obligation capital improvement warrants on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — A northern Virginia county suing federal and state transportation authorities over certain environmental exemptions for planned high-occupancy toll lanes on two interstate highways has asked the court to add another federal official as a defendant.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Miami-Dade County is completing the sale of $217 million of transit sales-tax revenue bonds today for institutional investors.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Securities and Exchange Commission is recommending that Jefferson County, Ala., receive a $25 million disgorgement and civil penalty that JPMorgan paid into an SEC “fair fund” designed to compensate harmed investors and issuers.

Kentucky reaped more savings than anticipated in Wednesday's $468 million taxable note sale in which underwriters created a new index-eligible term bond structure to entice investors who typically aren't interested in maturities less than 10 years.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission on Tuesday reserved $600 million of Gulf Opportunity Zone private-activity bonds for an unidentified manufacturing project in the southern part of the state.