News and Information from Bond Buyer

Maryland Heights, Missouri, believes the fiscal strains from the St. Louis Blues practice facility will fade as activity picks up without pandemic restrictions.

Refinitiv Lipper reported $2.262 billion of outflows from municipal bond mutual funds for the week ending Wednesday after $2.057 billion the week prior.

An audience poll during the National Association of Bond Lawyers' Workshop indicated that offering and disclosure fraud were among the highest concerns for the muni market.

Issuers should expect to see an increased presence of IRS agents as the service's Tax-Exempt Bond office completes a round of hiring and the IRS budget grows.

California is looking to pioneer the floating wind technology that's required in the deep waters where roughly two-thirds of the country's offshore wind potential exists.

Cleveland-based public finance banker Tim Reidy joined Raymond James as a managing director.

Even without formal rules tailored to the municipal market, ESG integration will likely come to the muni market faster than expected.

The Investment Company Institute reported $5.128 billion of outflows for the week ending Oct. 5 after $5.374 billion of outflows the previous week.

Ohio's growing economic diversity helped draw a positive outlook from Moody's, a month after a Fitch Ratings upgrade.

The Minnesota municipal bond vet will continue his focus on charter school finance in Florida.

The credit outlook on individual credits in Florida is mixed as the first reports of damage from the hurricane start filtering in.

Partisan politics is playing a larger role in public finance, flaring up into bickering more often than in the past.

The dollars mark the second of five years of increased state highway funding promised under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and British Columbia Premier John Horgan signed a statement of cooperation.

The rating outlook boost to positive from stable follows recent progress on steadying reserve rates and paying down debt, S&P said.

Most top 10 issuers are from New York and California, with New York issuers overtaking the Golden State year-over-year.

Minor shuffling among the top municipal underwriters characterized the year-over-year differences, with the same underwriters remaining in the top 10.

Munis are in the black so far in October and some participants see signs of continued improvement.

UBS Group was the only bank that underwrites munis included in the state's list of financial companies determined to be boycotting energy businesses.

The proposed county budget, buoyed by rising tax revenues, a healthy fund balance and pandemic relief, stays the course on supplemental pension funding.