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Platte County wants a summary judgment that would let it off the hook for debt issued with its appropriation pledge for the Zona Rosa shopping center.

Congestion pricing and other promised streams still leave unanswered questions for New York's transit agency.

The United Methodist Retirement Communities' $18 million sale follows a one notch downgrade by Fitch Ratings to BBB.

A large industrial revenue bond issue closed out the primary in a holiday-shortened week for the municipal bond market.

Minority Republicans had gummed up progress by forcing the House clerk to read every line of every bill, before two members broke ranks.

Baltimore is locked out of many of its computer systems by online hijackers demanding more than $100,000 worth of bitcoins to restore them to the city.

The board referred 13 public entities to the Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice and U.S. Department of Justice.

State and local governments would be able to issue tax-exempt PABs not subject to state volume caps if at least 95% or more of the net proceeds are used for green infrastructure.

Gov. Ned Lamont and Connecticut lawmakers are studying a proposal to essentially exchange much of the state’s income tax for a payroll tax.

A decline in pending home sales and a widening trade deficit suggest growth will slow this year.

Scott Waguespack will chair the committee that vets city bond deals and other financial transactions.

The legal argument made against revenue bonds just doesn't make sense in the market-based world.

Natalie Cohen and Lynne Funk Posner discuss climate change — from floods to hurricanes to Superfund sites — and how these issues affect state and local governments.

Demand for tax-exempt income overwhelmed the usual selling in the secondary market during tax season.

GASB Statement 91 calls for conduit issuers to stop reporting conduit debt in their financial statements and to report all of it in their accompanying notes starting Dec. 15, 2020.

The cash-strapped state’s public-private partnership will pay for a fixed-span bridge to replace an aging lift bridge and tunnel in Belle Chasse.

Judy Shelton, a conservative economist whom the Trump administration is considering for a vacancy on the Federal Reserve, said the central bank should avoid restraining growth while the U.S. is engaged in a trade war with China.

The Portland Diamond Project will get up to six more months to study a Northwest Portland marine cargo terminal as a potential baseball stadium site before it has to commit.

The markets have priced in a Federal Reserve rate cut this year, with the likelihood of a September reduction rising to 62% on Wednesday from a 50-50 shot on Tuesday and about a 91% of a 25 basis point cut by yearend.

The authority says the site will help investors access credit fundamentals.