Public finance

The need to close a widening deficit and backstop Hartford could pressure other cities and school districts.

The municipal bond market is prepped to see some supply hit the screens on Wednesday, led off by issuers in Indiana and Florida.

Top-shelf municipal bonds ended unchanged on Tuesday as eight separate groups won portions of the big Texas note deal.

Matthew Driscoll is the new executive director.

Chicago-based Mesirow is expanding its Northeast public finance business the addition of two Connecticut bankers from William Blair.

S&P cited benefits such a borrowing would offer Illinois.

The federal transit grant will provide most of Maryland’s share for building the Purple Line P3.

Lokken will work in Atlanta as Parker Poe continues to expand in the Southeast.

The rating agency cited the threat that the troubled city would lose tax revenue.

Title III bankruptcy judge Laura Taylor Swain approved hiring Phoenix Management Services LLC as financial advisor for the mediation process.

Refunding deals were down substantially and new money volume also slipped.

Top-shelf municipal bonds were unchanged at mid-session as the state of Texas sold the biggest note deal of the year.

The idea of a new Ames High School cleared its latest hurdle Monday night when a community feedback group recommended constructing a new building to the school board.

The state already has budget deficit two months into the fiscal year.

Lord Abbett’s Dan Solender and Eric Friedland join the Bond Buyer’s John Hallacy to discuss the market tone, rates, sectors, and credit quality. The colleagues give a frank assessment of the landscape, including federal policy, state financial trends, relative strengths of revenue bonds and the shape of the yield curve and the outlook for rates.

A Big Apple summer serves as a reminder of the need to invest in the grid.

While Wylie Independent School District students returned to class Monday, the district school board made a decision that could affect them for generations to come.

The state of Texas is selling the biggest deal of the week on Tuesday — a $5.4 billion note offering, which is also the biggest short-term sale so far this year.

The Big Apple will offer about $860 million of tax-exempt fixed rate bonds, $250 million of taxable fixed-rate bonds, and $200 million of tax-exempt variable-rate demand bonds.

The city priced refunding bonds for Philadelphia Gas Works.