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The Chicago-based organization is more than a quarter century old and intent on growing.

Emily Brock, director of the federal liaison center at the Government Finance Officers Association, takes time out to talk with Chip Barnett at The Bond Buyer’s National Outlook Conference about infrastructure spending. She also looks at the possibility of Congress approving the return of tax-exempt advance refundings and the SEC and MSRB’s focus on issuers ESG disclosures. (17 minutes)

The lawsuits challenge the procedures the NFL used to move the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles.

As municipals continue to underperform the moves in U.S. Treasuries, current ratios are attractive and present a buying opportunity.

A group of bondholders and bond insurers also submitted on Sunday a statement opposing the teachers’ request for stay.

The Eastern Transportation Coalition's report highlights concerns about privacy, trucking and rural drivers.

Firms don’t have to see disclosure of de minimis risk as a compliance matter. They can see it as a chance to better inform their retail clients about liquidity risk, and to put them on the same page as institutional players.

“Many states are reporting revenue surpluses and rebounding economies, in part as a result of federal aid to state governments.”

Oklahoma is not alone in struggling to fund repairs for aging dams, a $20 billion problem nationwide according to a 2019 study.

Market volatility has risen significantly, particularly in the last several weeks, with daily Treasury yield swings of 10 basis points or more becoming the norm with municipals struggling to stabilize.

The teachers are trying to prevent enactment on March 15.

The low-interest federal loans will complete financing packages for Virginia's express lane extension outside Washington D.C. and Maryland’s Purple Line light rail project.

Forty-one of the state's 115 school districts are floating bond measures or seeking tax levy increases.

The City Council on Wednesday began the first of a series of hearings on Mayor Eric Adams' $98.5 billion preliminary fiscal 2023 budget.

ETFs pulled in just more than $2 billion in February while muni mutual funds saw $8.5 billion of outflows.

Moody's raised the Chicago Board of Education's rating by one notch to Ba2.

Green bond issuance may offer no pricing benefit to issuers, but observers have noticed that the process of issuing a green bond often leads to an expanded investor base.

Ongoing turmoil in the Ukraine is roiling markets, municipals included. Refinitiv Lipper reported more outflows, with high-yield seeing $818.218 million pulled out in the latest week.

Photos from The Bond Buyer's 2022 National Outlook Conference.

Senate Democrats insist the GOP's boycott of President Biden's picks for the Federal Reserve is interfering with the central bank's handling of an economic crisis. But GOP lawmakers say the Fed is functioning fine and their concerns about nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin are material.