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Gary Hall, who became the new MSRB chair on Monday, says he has a "reverence" for the muni market.

Salt Lake City will bring $875 million of revenue bonds this month for its airport.

Illinois-based OSF Healthcare System will refund $470 of debt this week and next.

"This is not a project we relish," city transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said while presenting options for its $3 billion-plus overhaul of part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Municipal law attorney Eric Brofy expects to increase the focus on public-private partnerships at the 52-year-old higher education conduit bond issuer.

Municipal market participants are awaiting a big deal from the Garden State.

With $7.5 billion of new supply on the way to hungry bond buyers, the focus is on the East Coast as issuers in New Jersey and New York take the lion’s share of attention this week.

Municipal bond volume is set to start final quarter of the year with a bang, with two issuers accounting for $3.3 billion,

The third quarter ended with a whimper, leaving year-to-date issuance 15% behind last year's pace.

New Jersey’s health benefit agreements with public sector unions mark an important step toward managing a growing expense, according to Moody’s.

Moody's boosted its outlook for the University of Illinois to stable from negative ahead of the deal.

The state's chief auditor said the program to install high-speed internet across Kentucky is plagued with "botched" procurements.

Stringer called for a chief diversity officer in every city agency, stronger building code enforcement, and procurement time frames.

The Sacramento County Office of Education rejected the Sacramento City Unified School District budget because of deficit spending.

The Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018 which passed 220 to 191 isn’t expected to become law because the Senate won’t consider it this year.

United Airlines is grumbling about a proposal to use aviation fuel taxes to fund a PATH extension to Newark's airport.

Municipal bond supply jumps next week as the last quarter of the year begins.

The Internal Revenue Service has taken no action regarding tax-exempt refunding bonds that were issued for Gettysburg College in 2010, after closing an audit that appears to have been randomly initiated.

SEC and MSRB officials responded to the concerns and frustrations of bond lawyers who were meeting in Chicago.

The University of Michigan's final September consumer sentiment index reading was 100.1.