Municipal disclosure

The $139 million refunding saved Alabama’s most populous county $12.35 million in debt-service costs.

The new investor relations website launched Thursday.

Material improvements in spending flexibility led Fitch to give Alabama’s most populous county a two-notch upgrade.

Treasurer Seth Magaziner hopes to attract more investors to Rhode Island's bond program.

The Miami-Dade County School District improved its disclosure practices to provide better bond investor outreach.

Missouri's GOP-dominated legislature passed a budget, and plans a special session to consider disciplinary action against the first-term Republican governor.

The commonwealth's web portal enables tracking general-fund balance in real time, among other features.

Build America Mutual's Les Richmond said that state and local governments might want to consider their disclosure obligations in the light of the more robust risk assessments they'll soon begin getting from their actuaries.

Credit analysts, bond attorneys and issuers are among those reacting to the increasing risk computer crime poses to governments.