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Sen. Jodi Ernst, R-Iowa, who will chair a Department of Government Efficiency Senate caucus next year, wants to kill federal support for the California high-speed train.

Along with Altman and Wiggins, 12 other honorees from the public and private sectors were chosen by the Northeast Women in Public Finance as Trailblazing Women in Public Finance. 

The county achieved its many goals through long-running discipline, planning, and intelligent risk taking.

The Commission credits its work this year partially to the willingness of market participants to self report and cooperate with investigations.

The use of extendable commercial paper, a first by an airport, provided DFW interim financing for its capital program without the need for bank liquidity.

The top 10 issuers of housing deals accounted for more than a third of total housing issuance.

Daily report for November 26, 2024

Markets could see that "the risks of higher inflation and interest rates are implicit constraints on the Trump policy agenda, with the eventual policy outcomes potentially less inflationary than some investors previously feared," UBS strategists noted.

The agency cited the closeness of the entities to Florida's government.

The Fitch Ratings commentary considered ratings of airports in Florida, Nevada and South Carolina, which are most dependent on the airline for passenger traffic.

A hearing for four separate federal lawsuits seeking to block the congestion pricing plan is set for Dec. 20.

Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager and noted Trump ally, is nominated for Treasury Secretary.

The Proposed Joint Rules leave many questions unanswered regarding the FDTA's ultimate impact on the municipal securities industry.

"It became apparent that building this new critical care, advanced care bed tower was a strategic imperative," said John Morgan, interim CFO at WMCHealth.

The top five bond financings came in above $9 billion.

Daily report for November 25, 2024

Supply has "declined materially, allowing dealers to take a breather, with their inventories dropping significantly, while retail investors do not seem to be spooked by rate volatility, lower taxes and possible threats to the tax-exempts, and continued putting money into tax-exempts at a brisk pace," said Mikhail Foux, managing director and head municipal research and strategy at Barclays.

Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is the target of lawsuits from a private industry group over a transportation utility fee that was struck down earlier this year.

George Joseph McLiney, Jr. founded municipal bond underwriting firm McLiney and Company. He was devoted to his family and small issuer clients.

The tools come with risks, like legal challenges to "polluter pay" funds or potential corporate departures with cap-and-invest programs.