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The city's rejection of the petition, which aims to stall or submit the largely bond-financed convention center project to voters, is being challenged in court.

The House Finance Committee is making good on a promise to address housing affordability by advancing a bill that increases the public welfare investment cap to 20% from 15%.

Two student housing developments in Orlando and Tampa, Florida, financed by speculative-grade bonds in 2024, have shown signs of strain.

A looming government shutdown marks an uncertain future for the country as economists and muni leaders point to the positive effects of stubborn inflation on state tax revenues.

The Ohio State University went to market Tuesday with a $560 million deal to refund taxable Build America Bonds into tax-exempt debt.

With large language models parsing EMMA filings and investor relations sites, municipal issuers must modernize their disclosure so both humans and algorithms can accurately understand their credit story and avoid unintended red flags.

"The steps that would be necessary to restore a sound fiscal profile are becoming increasingly drastic," the rating agency said in downgrading Jersey City.

A review Moody's launched in September ended with rating downgrades and negative outlooks for the city's outstanding general obligation and revenue bonds.

Pasadena and the Rose Bowl Operating Co. are suing UCLA, saying plans to relocate football games to SoFi stadium could jeopardize $130 million in revenue bonds.

Municipal bond supply projections for next year range from a high of $750-plus billion to a low of $520 billion, with most firms expecting issuance to hover around $600 billion, easily surpassing 2025's record.

Omaha Public Power District will go to market the week of Jan. 5 with about $164 million of Series 2026A separate electric system revenue refunding bonds.

Four of Dallas Area Rapid Transit's 13 member cities took action to ask voters in May whether they want to withdraw from the agency.

This is the first upgrade of bonds supported by assets currently or formerly in the Puerto Rico government's hands since the passage of PROMESA in 2016.

Cintra submitted a proposal calling for four new tolled managed lanes on I-76 that would be structured as a $5 billion, 50-year design-build-finance-operate-maintain P3.

C. Christopher Trower was the lead attorney before the Supreme Court in a case that upheld states' rights to preferential tax treatment of their own bonds.

The Regents of the University of California will sell $2 billion of bonds next week after yanking a $1.5 billion summer deal amid Trump administration threats.

The revenue bonds will fund highway improvements expected to spur economic development in West Alabama.

After selling $260 million of voter-approved bonds for the project, county officials are eyeing a sales tax ballot measure in 2026 to cover the higher cost.

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.

The toll road agency's financial and other practices were targeted in a November legislative study, which could lead to another round of reform legislation.