Public finance

Under a new approach to keep up with an aging road system, New Mexico voters could get the opportunity this fall to decide whether to use state bonds to pay for highway projects.

Santa Fe Community College leaders are hoping taxpayers will vote for a $17 million bond that will allow the college to build a new auto repair facility, renovate the campus fitness center and upgrade the school's technological systems.

The law firm has promoted seven public finance lawyers to partner over the past five years.

Municipal bond traders return to work with yields and the revamped Chicago deal in their sights.

The Senate remains deadlocked over how much to increase an $81 billion disaster aid package that was approved by the House in December.

The city will see Monday if its retooled sales tax securitization issue is a go with the market.

"We've been playing games with the revenue estimates for decades," a former Treasury secretary tells the Oversight Board.

Muni volume in the last week of January is forecast to match that of the first three weeks combined, satisfying pent-up investor demand.

The proposed bond measure would get taxpayers to pay for lead paint abatement in California houses.

Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced their bill to expand PABs the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recommended such an expansion in its four-part infrastructure plan.

Milwaukee is selling $70 million of notes to speed up pension payments.

Increased use of battery storage may further disrupt a public power industry already in transition, experts told municipal bond professionals.

A wave of U.S. catastrophes has northeast municipal issuers scrutinizing resiliency options and how to fund them.

Munis came under pressure as Treasuries weakened on concern over a possible government shutdown and traders looked ahead to a return to normal in deal volume next week.

The index's yield to maturity ticked up two basis points to 3.86%, while the 11-bond, 20-bond, and revenue bond indexes dipped a pair.

Investors concerned over the level of impairment to their Puerto Rico bonds may get some clarity on the commonwealth's cash balance at an Oversight Board hearing.

Loop Capital also priced refunding bonds for Cook County, Ill., in the negotiated market.

Calling his two-year budget "difficult but honest," Gov. Matt Bevin cut most state agency budgets by 6.25% and borrowed to fund reserves.

A bill was filed to put Ball State University in charge of the Muncie school district.

The centerpiece of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's four-part infrastructure plan is a 25 cents per gallon increase in the federal gas tax.