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New Jersey's third-most-populous city retains a junk Ba1 underling rating, but Moody's boosted its outlook to stable.

La Verne, California expects to price the bonds before the end of June.

MTA's Patrick McCoy, Nixon Peabody's John Bove and Lowes Corp.'s Caroline Cruise will receive awards at the annual dinner.

With uncertainty surrounding federal infrastructure funding, Tennessee’s capital city is placing a largely locally funded, bond-financed program before voters.

Two big education deals are slated to hit the market on Wednesday, with deals coming from issuers in Connecticut and Ohio.

The university plans to price $118 million of new money and refunding bonds this week, and to close the refunding deal in September.

California came to market with a $2.15 billion general obligation bond deal as JPMorgan priced the big taxable offering

Lombard Securities and McDonald Partners agreed to pay fines after FINRA examiners found various violations of MSRB rules, including supervisory failures and trade reporting deficiencies.

The City of Atlanta continues to move forward with infrastructure resilience and environmental justice.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy removed the outside law firm appointed by his predecessor, Chris Christie.

Flint's pension liabilities are underfunded, its OPEB liabilities are not funded at all, and it faces a looming infrastructure bill.

The justices and attorneys both sides in a case involving South Dakota all appeared to prefer action by Congress to regulate this area of interstate commerce that has been forced on the high court by legislative gridlock.

Uncertainty around the Delta water tunnel project underscores the challenges faced by the state’s utilities.

The top players maintained their positions atop the league tables, building their shares of a shrinking market.

The municipal market is seeing several new deals hit the screens ahead of the big taxable deal from California.

Alternative funding strategies, collaborations and resiliency awareness were the buzzwords at an S&P housing conference in New York.

S&P Global Ratings still has the district well inside junk-bond territory at a B rating.

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin struck a guardedly optimistic tone as he released a $567.3 million budget plan.

A banking industry official warned aldermen that some institutions would cut ties to the city if it enacted such an ordinance.

While there have been many attempts to contain healthcare costs, bond specialist Randy Miller and Dr. Philip Romero of the University of Oregon discuss their “Health Insurance Revenue Bond” and how this new approach in prerefunding liability can contain costs. John Hallacy hosts.