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The policy shift may crowd out some projects, warned Baruch Feigenbaum, senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Housing advocates are celebrating the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill for the boost in Low Income Housing Tax Credits which is projected to boost the use of private activity bonds.

JP Zaptin has joined Baird where he will establish a municipal trading desk

Moody's expects enplanements at the facility will remain below the low end of its former projections.

New Hampshire Supreme Court found that the state doesn't spend enough on education, but upheld the education property tax system.

As it fights with the state over funding, the board of the Toms River Regional School District refused to raise taxes and threatened a bankruptcy filing.

The Alpine School District deal will finance school buildings in a part of the district that will be split off into a separate entity in July 2027.

Daily report for July 07, 2025

Arthur Azizov is the founder and investor in B2 Ventures.

Tabitha Edgens is the co-head of regulatory affairs at the Bank Policy Institute.

Alexander Fulmer is an assistant professor of marketing at the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration within Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business. Fulmer grew up in Manhattan, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell's Hotel School. He completed a post baccalaureate psychology program at Columbia University and graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in marketing.

Allen Adamson, co-founder and managing partner at Metaforce, is a branding expert. Former chairman at Landor Associates, he held leadership roles at Unilever, Ogilvy and DMB&B guiding many global brands. He's an adjunct & brand expert-in-residence at the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship.

The county commission said it hopes to regain Moody's ratings this fall.

Market participants launched the largest lobbying effort in recent memory to protect municipal bonds and got what they wanted as the tax-exemption survived.

UST yields rose across the curve in response to the employment report with the two-year rising nearly 10 basis points while municipals largely ignored the moves and ratios fell as a result.

Oregon Department of Transportation leaders said they will begin layoffs Monday after lawmakers adjourned without passing a transportation funding bill.