Southeast

WASHINGTON — Florence County, S.C., will begin issuing $122.4 million of revenue bonds Monday for several projects at the McLeod Regional Medical Center as the hospital chain has demonstrated credit strength despite a struggling regional economy and the changing health care environment.

DALLAS — Today’s negotiated sale of $104.5 million of general obligation refunding bonds by the Orleans Parish Parishwide School District is seen as an indication that New Orleans is recovering from the devastating storms of 2005.

DALLAS — The Louisiana State Bond Commission on Thursday amended its allocation policy for Gulf Opportunity Zone bonds to provide up to $500 million of the debt for a major industrial project.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Crews this week began geotechnical and survey work on the first phase of Florida’s $2.6 billion high-speed rail project from Tampa to Orlando, which is set to be built in the median of Interstate 4.

DALLAS — The federal ban on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could be more devastating to the region’s economic recovery than the crude oil that gushed from the BP well blowout for almost three months.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking a summary judgment against former Jefferson County, Ala., commissioner Larry Langford on three counts of violating the federal Securities Act.

DALLAS — New Orleans is spending millions to purchase a hospital damaged by Hurricane Katrina and renovate the vacant facility to serve residents of the city’s east side.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Georgia Department of Transportation is moving forward with its second public-private partnership project — a long-discussed multi-modal passenger terminal in downtown Atlanta.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences has closed on a rare municipal bond offering from a Florida charter school.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Based on settlements recommended by the Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge in Alabama has issued permanent injunctions prohibiting future violations of securities laws by Montgomery bond dealer William Blount and his firm, Blount Parrish & Co., and local lobbyist Al LaPierre.