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Arizona's law offers vouchers to all parents to choose where their children are educated at taxpayer expense. The impact on public school finances is uncertain.

Daily report for July 18, 2022

The current territorial status would not be an option in a Puerto Rico voter plebiscite.

Massachusetts delayed the sale of $2.7 billion of taxable special obligation revenue bonds as state lawmakers consider a bill for their unemployment trust fund.

Investors will be greeted Monday with a new-issue calendar estimated at $7 billion. While issuance will likely come in above average this month, negative net issuance is still expected.

State pension funds have lost much of the ground gained during the bull market of 2021.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s wholesale refusal to back the climate and tax measures in Democrats’ Build Back Better bill deals a final blow to any hopes of passing any provisions of the muni agenda before November.

Personal income tax data indicates the stock market slump is taking a toll on tax collections, Comptroller Brad Lander said in a report on the city's finances.

Ownership issues seem to be worked out, more or less, but reopening the refinery remains in doubt.

The lack of a TRANs deal will put off a test of how competitive bidding for the debt may be impacted by the state’s pro-firearm and fossil fuel policies that have sidelined a few big underwriting firms.

Daily report for July 15, 2022

BlackRock's Head of Municipals Peter Hayes lays out the muni landscape for the rest of the year, highlighting opportunities for the asset class after the severe volatility so far in 2022.

The Federal Reserve’s Inspector General said Chair Jerome Powell and former Vice Chair Richard Clarida’s trading activity had not broken any laws or rules, but the probe into the former heads of the Dallas and Boston regional Fed banks remained open.

Investors added $206.127 million to municipal bond mutual funds, according to Refinitiv Lipper data.

While the number of deals slipped, the amount of revenues involved in announced transaction hit a peak.

Officials in New Mexico's state capital are fretting that late audited financials audit could lead the state to withhold state bond proceeds for city projects.

The firm’s project finance & public finance practice comprises more than 50 attorneys and professional colleagues and is looking to add.

The condition of infrastructure projects should be included in bond pricing metrics as many infrastructure assets around the country have turned into liabilities.

Private activity bonds for a coffee farm and general obligation bonds for an emergency center were cut with Gov. David Ige's veto pen.