Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's finance team laid out plans to tap more than half of $9 billion of existing and proposed borrowing authority through 2022 to refinance debt for savings and fund infrastructure and pandemic recovery efforts.

Some policymakers in the nation’s capital have urged the Federal Reserve banks of Boston and Dallas to consider people of color and women while selecting new presidents. Republicans led by Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania say the process should be left to the local bank boards.

The Public Finance Authority issue for the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project sets the stage for the Corps of Engineers' future use of a P3 financing model.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said questionable financial transactions by senior Federal Reserve officials — two of whom have resigned — cast doubt on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s ability to steer the central bank as President Biden mulls whether to reappoint him.

Even with a balanced fiscal 2022 budget in place, Michigan still has billions in federal aid and additional state funds to spend at a later date.

With incumbent Eric Garcetti awaiting confirmation to an ambassadorship, would-be successors are lining up for a two-round election in June and November 2022.

The growing P3 sector would enjoy a boost across many markets, including rural broadband, under P3-friendly provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan cited his desire “to eliminate any distractions” at the central bank just hours after his Boston Fed counterpart, Eric Rosengren, said he will leave earlier than planned because of a health issue. They had engaged in stock transactions that drew criticism in light of their knowledge about the Fed's pandemic response.

Eric Rosengren, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's president for 14 years, has been on a waiting list for an organ transplant since last year, the bank said in an email.

William Estes has overseen multibillion-dollar design-build and infrastructure developments for government agencies in New York.

With a record $3 billion going to education, Oklahoma is facing stricter accounting in the wake of charter school funding abuses.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shifted more taxpayer money toward a border wall and called for redistricting state legislative and congressional districts in a third special session.

Fitch analysts discussed the relationship between the soveriegn rating and state and local credits.

Despite two COVID-19 waves and a crippling winter freeze, Texas general revenue was up 6.2% for the year that ended Aug. 31.

California's drought makes the argument that the San Diego County Water Authority's choice to build a P3 coastside desalination plant was correct.

Illinois' tardy fiscal 2020 financial statements offer a view of COVID-19's early impact on the state's finances.

Several cities could eliminate or drastically reduce unfunded pension liabilities, Reason Foundation's Robert Poole found.

State lawmakers will have funds to work with as they has out details of the budget they enacted earlier this summer.

The drenching of several regions exposed vulnerabilities that vary by state, and recurring problems that could jeopardize municipal credit.

Production companies making films, TV series and commercials may offer North Carolina $409 million of revenue this year.