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The nation's largest Catholic healthcare system will acquire Illinois' largest Catholic system.

Matthew Driscoll is the new executive director.

The district faces growing enrollment amid shrinking financial support.

Refunding deals were down substantially and new money volume also slipped.

The idea of a new Ames High School cleared its latest hurdle Monday night when a community feedback group recommended constructing a new building to the school board.

While Wylie Independent School District students returned to class Monday, the district school board made a decision that could affect them for generations to come.

The city priced refunding bonds for Philadelphia Gas Works.

The bonds will take out $210.7 million of bond anticipation notes issued last week to redeem $246 million of private activity bonds.

Moody's says the South Carolina Public Service Authority’s delay on rates is a credit negative.

Leaders with the Socorro Independent School District will seek voter approval on a $448.5 million bond measure.

A big drop-off in Texas and a decline in refundings took a bite out of the municipal bond business in the Southwest.

The Board of Regents enterprise since 2001 has saved more than $101 million by refinancing bonds — with most of those savings coming since the Great Recession in 2008, after which interest rates plummeted to the lowest in recent history.

The development sector grew by 36% and public facilities climbed by 11%, making them the sectors that grew by the largest percentage in the first half of the year. The sectors with the biggest declines were electric power at 55% and utilities at 23%.

The municipal market got off to a fast start in terms of issuance this year, picking up in January right where it left off from 2016’s record-setting totals. However, the pace of issuance has since slowed, leaving 2017 first-half volume lagging last year's levels.

WINDHAM, Conn. — The board of finance Wednesday gave its seal of approval for a $112.3 million appropriation and bonding for the Windham High School building project.

Victoria school board members agreed late Thursday night to ask voters in November to approve a $141.2 million capital improvement plan.

After pondering — and in some cases wrestling — with the proposed bond issue, the Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees approved calling a Nov. 7 bond issue election for $291,172,291 during a special meeting Thursday.

The region's slipping volume reflected a national trend.

Ipreo estimates total bond volume for next week at $4 billion, down from a revised total of $5.9 billion this week, according to data from Thomson Reuters. Next week’s calculations do not include note sales.

The Leander, Texas, school board Thursday night unanimously approved putting before voters in November a $454 million bond package, the first in 10 years.