Munis

The Civic Federation endorsed the system's 2020 budget but raised concerns over the community college system's long-term fiscal outlook.

Political leaders are weighing privatization for Jacksonville, Florida’s JEA and South Carolina’s Santee Cooper.

Edward Sisk, a managing director and head of public finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will chair the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board beginning Oct. 1.

Ratings analysts don't agree on future prospects for the Texas oil capital of Odessa.

It is time for more creative thinking about finding more solutions to fund improvements for the city instead of political squabbles.

The wait is over. After seven months without seeing one week of double digit issuance, municipal bond investors will finally get a supply surge.

SEC Chair Clayton’s comments that information on EMMA is subject to more scrutiny could be true for some participants depending on issuers’ reliance on the MSRB site.

Petr, who has been with the firm since 1987, most recently served as chair of Kutak Rock's public finance department in Omaha.

The Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. sold its ownership interests in W.F. Wyman Station Unit 4, citing the need for a different power supply mix.

Coming off the biggest month of the year, volume dipped in July to the second slowest pace of 2019.

The complaint filed by Philadelphia and Baltimore fails to rise to the level of specificity needed to prove conspiracy, Wall Street banks told a federal judge.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced plans to maintain record debt sales.

Spendable cash and investments have nearly doubled since 2014, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded $492 million of bonds because of its revised criteria on special revenue debt.

The National Association of Municipal Advisors wants SEC staff action to protect MAs and possible eventual rulemaking to create "regulatory parity" between MAs and broker-dealers.

The committee also unanimously voted Tuesday to reverse a planned $7.6 billion cut in highway spending that’s scheduled to take effect in a year.

The complaint that seeks to void repayment of $14.3 billion of debt awaits a court decision on whether it can move forward.

Clayton noted a trend of issuers being advised that information they supply on EMMA is subject to more anti-fraud scrutiny than information provided in other ways.

At its quarterly board meeting last week, the MSRB decided to do away with Rule G-34’s provision that all municipal advisors, whether dealer or non-dealer, have to apply for a CUSIP number in competitive sales.

Proceeds will finance a 6.7-mile section of the North Tarrant Express to add four toll lanes to a section of Interstate 35 north of downtown Fort Worth.