Southeast

BRADENTON, Fla. - Miami-Dade County, Fla., hopes to terminate swaps insured by troubled Ambac Assurance Corp.

The South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank expects to competitively sell today $93.6 million of revenue bonds to refund debt issued between 1998 and 2000.

New Orleans hopes to generate at least $5 million in revenue from businesses with a sales tax amnesty program that will begin Oct. 1 and extend through Dec. 4.

The Ascension Parish-Wide School District would upgrade 20 schools with the proceeds from a $100 million bond issue going to voters on Oct. 17.

Florida’s Division of Bond Finance Tuesday received authorization to sell $727.1 million of bonds.

Fitch Ratings Tuesday downgraded $236 million of outstanding Alabama State Port Authority revenue bonds to BBB-plus from A-minus and said the outlook is stable.

A federal judge in Birmingham has set Nov. 12 as the new date that former Jefferson County commissioner Mary Buckelew will be sentenced for obstruction of justice for lying to a federal grand jury about receiving gifts from Montgomery-based bond dealer William Blount when the county’s sewer debt was refinanced in 2002 and 2003.