Politics

Maine voters in Tuesday election shot down a ballot proposal for a public takeover of private electric utility providers.

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.

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.

Amid a wellspring of federal funding to accelerate production, West Virginia is leveraging its own incentives to grow its local defense industries.

Republican criticism over the bill's 64% cut to Amtrak prompted GOP leadership to tap the brakes on the bill late Tuesday.

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.

The deal marks one of the rare instances of true asset recycling in the U.S.

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.

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.

"Under my rule, pension-fund and asset managers are still able to offer ESG products in Missouri," said Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft.