Infrastructure

The $55 million deal would be the second leg of financing needed for the $571 million project.

Phil Murphy's audit mandate is described as the first step to restore the beleaguered mass transit agency’s finances and infrastructure.

Tax-exempt private activity bonds, which came close to being terminated in tax reform legislation, are now a centerpiece of the Trump administration's leaked infrastructure plan -- and market participants hope to use this as a springboard for a return of tax-exempt advance refundings.

President Trump's purported latest infrastructure plan would remove state volume caps, advance refunding prohibitions and state volume caps from private activity bonds used for infrastructure.

The Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois has begun laying the groundwork for a campaign to raise more public money.

Key variables include how Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the MTA would use the roughly $1 billion projected for mass transit, New York City's role and how Albany would tweak the measure.

Under a new approach to keep up with an aging road system, New Mexico voters could get the opportunity this fall to decide whether to use state bonds to pay for highway projects.

Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced their bill to expand PABs the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recommended such an expansion in its four-part infrastructure plan.

Increased use of battery storage may further disrupt a public power industry already in transition, experts told municipal bond professionals.

A wave of U.S. catastrophes has northeast municipal issuers scrutinizing resiliency options and how to fund them.

The centerpiece of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's four-part infrastructure plan is a 25 cents per gallon increase in the federal gas tax.

Education funding, revenue sharing and a capital budget are among the front-and-center issues in Olympia.

In a small room at Little Walnut Creek Branch Library in North Austin, about a dozen community members sat face-to-face with the group of Austin residents tasked with an influential role in how hundreds of millions of tax dollars might be spent.

Sometime this spring, a gaping hole will appear in the top floor of the PNC Building where a row of windows now looks 300 feet down on Cascade Plaza.

The challenges local governments face with capital planning in 2018 are explored by Brien Desilets, who leads Grant Thornton’s infrastructure advisory practice and previously advised local governments on public-private partnerships at Public Financial Management. Hosted by Andrew Coen.

Two bond issues return to Pullman ballots in a special election scheduled Feb. 13.

High Point, N.C., will go to the bond market next week to borrow the money for construction of its downtown stadium.

Gov. Dannel Malloy urged lawmakers to replenish the Special Transportation Fund.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have issued a report calling for the state volume caps to be removed for private activity bonds used to help finance infrastructure projects.

With a financing structure cemented, the first bonds for a Kansas City, Mo., convention center hotel were sold.