Munis

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is a "tailor-made" stimulus that will help offset the pandemic-spurred downturn, infrastructure experts say.

Their wins brighten the future of municipal bond-friendly initiatives in Congress.

The public finance industry would gain from the reinstatement of tax-exempt advance refunding and other muni-friendly measures under a Democratic sweep of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

A federal judge largely rejected the arguments offered by Wall Street banks seeking to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleges a conspiracy to fix rates in the VRDO market.

Traffic is recovering at the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, which is planning $600 million of new borrowing for its 2021 capital plan.

Oregon-based Wonderful Foundations purchases charter school buildings to lease them back to schools at a stable rent.

Financial hits to Atlantic City's hospitality industry from state limitations aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 are hindering a state agency reliant on luxury tax revenues to pay debt service on outstanding bonds.

The city of Alpharetta wants to repurpose $24.72 million in bonds issued in 2016 by the Development Authority of Alpharetta.

California will give the private activity bond capacity granted to the high-speed rail project to affordable housing projects and other qualifying ventures.

Long-term municipal bond volume is on pace to set a new record of yearly issuance, thanks in part to issuers rushing to market before the election and a continued taxable boom.

Stanford Ladner of Butler Snow has been listed in the 2020 edition of “New York Metro Super Lawyers."

New Jersey said it expects to issue up to $4.5 billion of tax-exempt and taxable bonds the week of Nov. 18 under the COVID-19 Emergency Bond Act.

The SEC's Rebecca Olsen said in 2021, the regulator plans to explore ways to get more comment on financial disclosure recommendations.

The transit agency — its revenues battered, its credit standing weakened and with no federal rescue aid in sight — looks to borrow its remaining $2.9 billion available through the Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Taxables march on while ICI reports billions of inflows and secondary trading shows long-end strength.

South Carolina-owned utility Santee Cooper issued A-rated revenue and refunding bonds that achieved $134 million in net present value savings and drew $3.5 billion in orders from yield-starved investors.

In an all new money deal, North Carolina plans to issue debt for its Build NC statewide transportation financing program.

Tax changes sought by the municipal bond industry are likely to be embedded into infrastructure legislation.

Record new issuance in 2020 in the face of dealing with shutdowns, diminishing tax revenues and political unrest shows how resilient the industry is.

Many issuers in California specifically do not mention climate change in their official statements.