Southeast

WASHINGTON — Wake County, N.C., on Wednesday will issue $34.9 million of qualified school construction bonds — its first such issuance and the state’s largest QSCB deal since the beginning of the program.

BRADENTON, Fla. — After years of study and indecision, Hillsborough County, Fla., officials have agreed to place on November’s ballot a proposal to increase the sales tax by 1% to fund long-term mass transit projects, including light rail.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear forwarded a proposed budget for 2010-2012 on Wednesday that he hopes the General Assembly will adopt in a five-day special session later this month.

BRADENTON, Fla. — On the heels of a rating upgrade, the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Finance Corp. today plans to complete the pricing of $693 million of tax-exempt revenue bonds.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The federal judge presiding over the Alabama ­Public School and College Authority’s case that attempts to void a swaption with ­JPMorgan has agreed with a joint request to delay the trial more than four months.

WASHINGTON — Virginia on Wednesday expects to competitively price $492.7 million of transportation bonds — the state’s first bond offering from a $3 billion debt program approved in 2007.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The governors of Kentucky and Tennessee have declared states of emergency to deal with disastrous floods and tornadoes that hit the states over the past weekend.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Three consortiums representing 15 local, national, and international firms have submitted qualifications to the Georgia Department of Transportation for consideration to develop the state’s first public-private partnership road project.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Syncora Guarantee Inc. has filed a civil suit alleging that Jefferson County, Ala., and JPMorgan “fraudulently induced” it to provide more than $1 billion in insurance coverage for the county’s nearly $3.2 billion of variable- and auction-rate sewer warrants.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Florida Legislature Friday ended its annual session amid concern over the growing impact of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.