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More than 300 market participants, including 100 investors, attended the city's annual conference Friday to hear from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Municipal bond supply will keep on keeping on this week, continuing a boom that started August.

After spearheading large capital projects at New York State’s nonprofit entities, Dr. Gerrard Bushell is set to tackle a $7 billion infrastructure initiative at one of the world’s major airports.

Downtown Dallas has seen a revival in recent years with residential conversions and more pedestrian-friendly design paid for with tax-increment financing.

Fiona Ma will give the keynote at the Bond Buyer's California Public Finance conference. Elsewhere, the market is gearing up for another interesting slate.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will price the housing mortgage finance program bonds through negotiation.

The primary market was somewhat stagnant after the FOMC but things should revert back how they were before — with most deals getting put away quickly.

The household employment survey showed good economic news, while other measures were mixed.

Moody’s Investors Service citied continued operational and performance improvements for the upgrade to Baa1.

Bipartisan legislation to streamline TIFIA has been introduced in Congress by two Texans.

States and cities have begun to factor climate risk into budgetary and other planning.

Muni vet Dana Villanova has joined Kestrel Verifiers as director of business development.

The latest garnishment request comes as a task force on downstate and suburban public safety fund consolidation nears recommendations.

The islands' representative to Congress called for the local government to declare an emergency, possibly affecting $633 million of WAPA debt.

Municipal bond yields moved lower in secondary trading as some big deals were sold.

The charter boarding school is designed to lift homeless youth and foster children in largely Latino and African-American neighborhoods in South Los Angeles.

The private activity bonds would be used to help finance the planned Virgin Trains USA line to Victorville, Calif., from Las Vegas.

Fitch Ratings lowered the city’s issuer default rating to AA-minus from AA.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran's proposed 2020 fiscal year budget would keep property taxes flat for a second straight year.