News and Information from Bond Buyer

9/21/2016 9/14/2016 State Iss Amount ($000s) Iss Amount ($000s) Chg in Amt ($000s) Alabama 5 $807,900 5 $629,145 178,755 Florida 7 901,950 11 555,418 346,532 Georgia 4 1,208,010 4 1,013,040 194,970 Kentucky 6 78,965 7 145,285 -66,320 Louisiana 1 4,315 5 504,110 -499,795 Mississippi 0 0 1 288,515 -288,515 North Carolina 3 775,055 3 720,635 54,420 South Carolina 5 149,825 2 29,825 120,000 Tennessee 3 33,890 7 278,960 -245,070 Virginia 4 39,495 8 660,045 -620,550 West Virginia 0 0 0 0 0

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With record attendance at the 26th annual Bond Buyer California public finance conference, the participants of the live market survey certainly made their voices heard.

Developers of major “transformational” projects proposed in Michigan would be allowed to capture sales and income taxes related to the project as way to offset the costs of redevelopment under legislation that is headed to the state senate.

New Jersey’s Stockton University is holding a bond sale Thursday to raise proceeds for its planned new $178 million Atlantic City campus.

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San Diego-based Palomar Health is set to issue more than $400 million of refunding bonds in the next two weeks, split between investment-grade general obligation debt and junk-rated revenue bonds.

Puerto Rico was hit by a major electrical outage sometime between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Wisconsin’s new budget director will take the helm next month as work begins in earnest on the state’s new biennial spending plan.

Top-shelf municipal bonds finished unchanged on Wednesday, traders said, after the Federal Open Market Committee in a widely expected move left its fed funds target rate unchanged at between 0.25% and 0.50%.

Two new municipal, high-quality, AMT-free ETFs launched by VanEck Global this week offer flexibility for both conservative and yield-oriented investors, and are listed on Bats Global Markets Inc., the Kansas City-based exchange for ETF trading.

S&P Global Ratings downgraded to junk $172 million of bonds for two private immigration detention centers after two federal agencies announced initiatives to end or reduce use of such facilities.

Ralston, Nebraska’s general obligation arena bonds were dropped seven notches to junk by S&P Global Ratings after the project has struggled to produce the revenue needed to repay the debt.

The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy’s municipal finance center is offering grants for academic research projects on topics that range from public sector pensions and bond financing to infrastructure, taxation, and the politics of public finance.

The fed funds target should go up once this year if "no new major risks" pop up and the economy continues on its current course, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday.