Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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Infrastructure projects no longer have to be included in a state's transportation plan to be eligible for a TIFIA loan.
June 6 -
The center, at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, added six people with municipal finance experience to its board of advisors.
June 6 -
Observers say the problems of KentuckyWired has lessons for all public-private partnerships.
June 6 -
Moody's Ratings analysts revised the outlook to stable from negative on the expectation that states and locals will fill an $8 billion operations funding gap.
June 5 -
Legislative leaders want the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs to weigh in on a plan to use bonds for a new stadium on their side of the state line.
June 5 -
It is not clear how the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would fund its capital plan if the governor puts the brakes on the toll plan for lower Manhattan.
June 5 -
It's one of the most controversial uses of tax-exempt debt, but repeated legislative efforts to eliminate it have failed.
June 5 -
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón surprised incumbent Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in the New Progressive Party primary for governor.
June 4 -
The lawsuit filed in 2017 points to funding disparities when public school districts turn to local property taxes and bond issuance for capital funding.
June 4 -
Co-authors of a bill to authorize a tax measure seen as crucial to Bay Area transit killed it amid opposition from multiple quarters.
June 3 -
The American Public Transportation Association is looking for $42.5 billion in rail funding.
June 3 -
Recognizing the formidable construction challenges, the White House has created a Nuclear Power Project Management and Delivery working group "to help identify opportunities to proactively mitigate sources of cost and schedule overrun risk."
June 3 -
Oregon Democrats and Republicans had opposite takes on the possibility the state could be dispersing a kicker credit of $582 million for the 2025-27 biennium.
May 31 -
The first chip in the state's triple-A crown comes ahead of plans to competitively auction $1.2 billion of general obligation bonds next week.
May 31 -
Democratic leaders in the Assembly and Senate said they restored some of Gavin Newsom's proposed deficit-reducing cuts in their budget proposal.
May 31 -
The proposal to tax interest on out-of-district municipal bonds is a revenue-raising measure, though its path forward is far from certain.
May 30 -
The new law was modeled after a North Carolina law and its use in Charlotte, said Matt Wiltshire, president of Pathway Affordable Housing Corporation, which works to develop affordable rental housing in Nashville.
May 30 -
Fifteen years after a $9.9 billion bond issue that was to finance a substantial portion of a new high-speed rail line across California, the proposal "has become one of the most troubled megaprojects in the nation," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo.
May 30 -
The rating agency said legislation signed into law this month to limit annual property tax revenue growth to 5.5% could reduce commercial property collections.
May 29 -
The Senate WRDA measure asks the Army Corps to report on best practices and lessons learned with its 10-year-old pilot P3 program.
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