Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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With a healthy surplus built over several years, the state adopted a series of tax relief measures. Those actions, along with robust growth in fiscal 2022 that triggered an automatic tax cut, are driving revenue projections lower.
May 19 -
The Biden Administration has partnered with five cities and the State of California in efforts to reduce homelessness.
May 19 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a clear signal he is inclined to pausing interest-rate increases next month and said that tighter credit conditions could mean the policy peak will be lower.
May 19 -
Walt Disney Co., embroiled in a high-profile fight with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is closing a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World and dropping plans to relocate 2,000 California employees to a new corporate campus it was building in the state.
May 18 -
With hotel taxes unlikely to keep pace with debt service , the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority is eyeing a restructuring to extend final bond maturity.
May 18 -
The FOMC meets June 13-14. Join us June 15 at 2 p.m., Eastern time, as Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden & Rygel, provides his take on the meeting statement, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell's press conference and the latest Fed projections.
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Panelists at the National Federation of Municipal Analysts discussed their experiences dealing with resiliency in the face of budgetary and environmental problems.
May 17 -
The city's agreement for the $2.1 billion, mixed-use project to build an arena for the NHL's Arizona Coyotes included a bond-financed cleanup of a landfill.
May 17 -
Bolstered by key political support, states across the southeast are building toll roads through public-private partnerships to manage congestion.
May 17 -
The legislation impacts Chicago fire pensions, but it's stirring debate over costly fixes needed statewide to avoid running afoul of Social Security rules.
May 16