Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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City Attorney Michael Gates said he will appeal the case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
November 16 -
The amount of unspent funding for state and local capital projects is at a historically high $5 billion as projects struggle with rising construction costs.
November 16 -
Stabilizing the Highway Trust Fund and easing Buy America requirements are top congressional priorities for state transportation officials.
November 15 -
The time between the announcement of an award and the actual cash going out the door can be frustratingly long.
November 15 -
A group of former California Democratic lawmakers oppose efforts by current Democratic lawmakers to block a voter tax initiative from the ballot.
November 14 -
Flush with bond authorization from the Nov. 7 election, officials are formulating issuance plans, while Colorado's governor called lawmakers back to session after a property tax cut measure was defeated by voters.
November 13 -
Gov. Brain Kemp signed an executive order Wednesday extending a suspension of Georgia's gasoline tax as prices at the pump remain high, but begin to fall.
November 10 -
Maine voters in Tuesday election shot down a ballot proposal for a public takeover of private electric utility providers.
November 9 -
The constitutional amendment removes a special debt limit placed on small city school districts; now they will be treated the same as other school districts.
November 9 -
A subpoena sent to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission this week seeks communications related to 2021's Winter Storm Uri and nearly $3 billion of utility securitizations that priced in 2022.
November 9 -
Amid a wellspring of federal funding to accelerate production, West Virginia is leveraging its own incentives to grow its local defense industries.
November 8 -
Republican criticism over the bill's 64% cut to Amtrak prompted GOP leadership to tap the brakes on the bill late Tuesday.
November 8 -
The state asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a request to hear arguments seeking to overturn a capital gains tax expected to bring in $500 million annually.
November 8 -
The deal marks one of the rare instances of true asset recycling in the U.S.
November 8 -
An increase in tax collections helped fuel the flow of billions of excess dollars into the state's previous budget, although growth in key sales tax revenue has slowed.
November 7 -
For those of us who study government finance, either for investment purposes or for public policy purposes, complete data sets are far more useful than partial ones that will necessitate ongoing use of legacy PDFs of those issuers that are exempt.
November 7 -
"Under my rule, pension-fund and asset managers are still able to offer ESG products in Missouri," said Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft.
November 7 -
Attorney General Ken Paxton put several big banks under a review last month, raising concerns more municipal bond underwriters could be driven out of the state.
November 6 -
Two major state-backed offshore wind farm projects in New Jersey were canceled by Ørsted, which cited growing impairments and sustained marketplace pressures.
November 3 -
A Senate bill holds drinking and wastewater infrastructure funding level to 2023, but advocates the SRFs could see cuts when the two chambers hammer out final appropriations.
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