Public finance

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.

The market got what it expected and can now shift attention to the week's remaining deals after Fed policy makers cut interest rates by a quarter point.

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority will issue senior-lien bonds with a Green Evaluation from S&P Global Ratings.

Buyers and sellers also look at how transition bonds can help advance firm’s climate targets.

Amending the law that established an oversight board for restructuring Puerto Rico’s debt looks like a tall order.

As gas taxes seem less plausible as a source of infrastructure funding, many are looking for alternate funding options.

Attorneys for Indian River County, the Department of Transportation and Virgin Trains will appear before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Few deals priced, as trading was subdued before the Federal Open Market Committee’s interest rate decision.

Moody's credited a disciplined approach toward budgeting sales tax revenue for the upgrade to Aa1.

If the bonds are approved in March, the junk-rated city plans to issue $250 million of new money, unlimited tax general obligation bonds in 2020.

The gain was led by a 53% jump in revenue from the Act 154 excise tax, which is due to be phased out.