Public finance

Walla Walla Public Schools' Community Task Force has again launched an online survey to gather public opinion of the two school bond options.

Gov. Rick Scott has doubled the chances that voters will decide if a supermajority vote will be required for the Legislature to raise new revenue.

The process of collecting signatures on a petition in favor of building a new Ames High School, and expanding three district elementary schools, appears to be in good shape.

A group of eight taxpayers wants a Lackawanna County judge to immediately enforce a tax-cap order on the Pennsylvania city.

Municipal bond buyers will focus on the high-rated but high-yielding sales tax securitization deal coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said he would hold hearings on the $83 million package.

New York's governor unveiled a $168 billion spending proposal for the 2019 fiscal year during his annual budget address.

The ruling increases the body of law supporting strict legal protections for public pension benefits, the rating agency said.

The City Council unanimously to extend the deadline for the filing of the mayor’s preliminary Fiscal 2019 budget by two weeks to Feb. 1 as city officials digested state budget plans announced Tuesday.

The municipal bond market on Tuesday priced the first of the week’s big new issues, before buyers turned their focus to the high-rated, but high-yielding sales tax securitization coming from Chicago on Wednesday.

Phil Murphy inherits a state government that was downgraded 11 times under predecessor Chris Christie.

In a small room at Little Walnut Creek Branch Library in North Austin, about a dozen community members sat face-to-face with the group of Austin residents tasked with an influential role in how hundreds of millions of tax dollars might be spent.

Mike Kuhle is publicly supporting the upcoming District 518 bond referendum, but he's quick to point out that he's doing so as an individual and not speaking for the city.

Voters are being asked to approve construction bonds that would create a new high school in the Central Valley School District and provide more classrooms to keep up with growth north of Spokane in Mead.

As soon as April, residents of the Central Lee School District may decide on whether to pass a general obligation bond issue of $9.8 million to pay for facility renovations.

Sometime this spring, a gaping hole will appear in the top floor of the PNC Building where a row of windows now looks 300 feet down on Cascade Plaza.

Vallejo school district trustees will review survey results regarding the community's interest in supporting a school bond for the upcoming election.

The municipal bond market saw the first of the week’s big new issues price in the primary. Buyers will see about $3.35 billion of new deals hit the screens this week, with most of the volume coming on Wednesday and Thursday.

Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. returns to the municipal bond market this week, offering high-yielding, high-rated paper to buyers hungry for supply.

The challenges local governments face with capital planning in 2018 are explored by Brien Desilets, who leads Grant Thornton’s infrastructure advisory practice and previously advised local governments on public-private partnerships at Public Financial Management. Hosted by Andrew Coen.