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Stagnant per-pupil state funding amid rising costs led to budget deficits, lower reserves, and ballot proposals to raise property tax rates for some districts.

The high-grade issue is expected to be well received by the market. D.C. joins a growing list of issuers refunding outstanding BABs amid lower rates.

"People could trust him and know they were in good hands," said Greg Carey, a co-worker and friend.

Massachusetts drew multiple bidders for all four tranches when it sold $850 million of general obligation bonds competitively last week.

It's the latest proposal for a type of national infrastructure financing structure in lieu of the municipal bond market.

The good, the bad and the ugly for two of California's major cities when they sell debt in current market conditions.

Few in the municipal bond industry have had as far reaching an impact on the institutions, best practices and local developments the way Kenneth Lind, the longtime point man for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, has both as in house and outside counsel.

Subsidence has delayed completion of the new Belle Chasse Bridge, a project led by one of the developers of the $2.3 billion Calcasieu Bridge project.

House Republicans are hoping to jam through a voter eligibility bill as part of the upcoming continuing resolution in order to avert a shutdown before Sept. 30.

AHCIA has languished since 2016 — is it time to consider alternatives?

Joan Stern, a legend in public finance law in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, is a member of The Bond Buyer's 2024 Muni Hall of Fame class.

Illinois will sell up to $1.1 billion of general obligation refunding bonds and $600 million of taxable and tax-exempt GO bonds by the end of September.

California and Texas have received the most amount of federal investment to date, according to a pair of reports tracking the climate law's investments.

Rep. Steven Horsford will likely replace the late Rep. Bill Pascrell.

The $180.24 million deal comprises $76.085 million of metropolitan district bonds and $104.155 million of consolidated public improvement bonds.

As extreme weather events occur with more frequency across the country, Michael Gaughan, executive director of the Vermont Bond Bank, says municipal bond banks can help smaller communities deal with the effects of them. Gaughan speaks with The Bond Buyer's Lynne Funk on the effects of climate change and how the various levels of government can work together to address it.

The Dallas-Fort Worth region toll highway owner and operator aims to rake in savings from the deal as it expects to cash fund a $2 billion capital plan.

A bill would allow the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue debt for California's FAIR Plan, its property insurer of last resort.

With Chairman Tom Carper retiring, the key committee will be under new leadership regardless of the election outcome.

The bonds will fund infrastructure in one of 21 community development districts that have built the age-restricted 55-and-up Villages to more than 76,000 homes.