Public finance

llinois paper is looking more attractive when held up to Chicago city and Chicago Public Schools bonds, Citi analysts write.

Wisconsin will refund $622 million of taxable 2008 bonds in a sale that sheds swaps tied to Libor.

Most of the proceeds will refinance direct placement debt with bonds sold in the public markets.

Massachusetts also came to market with a $1.4 billion sale of revenue anticipation notes in three offerings.

Lack of legislative cooperation wouldn't be a problem until after court-approval of a plan of a adjustment, observers said.

The proposal is highly doubtful to become law in the coming months given the limited number of days Congress will be in session the remainder of the year.

Fitch Ratings affirmed Denver International Airport after the collapse of a public-private partnership to remodel the main terminal.

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is in the ninth year of a 15-year, $14 billion capital program.

Government leaders at every level need funding for projects, and when the revenue is not available, voters are asked to approve bonds.

Henry Cisneros of Siebert Cisneros & Shank chats with Paul Burton at the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank summit in Providence.

Improving the capital city's system could generate tax-base growth and economic activity, according to Moody's Investors Service.

No pension obligation bonds, scoop-and-toss, or backtracking on borrowing for operations are planned in the Chicago mayor’s budget fix.

Spectrum Health System will consolidate its administrative offices into a central location.

Protesters targeted investors in prisons and Puerto Rico bonds at the Museum of Modern Arts' opening.

Andy Byford, president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's transit division, wrote a letter of resignation before rescinding it.

There's something for everyone on this week's primary calendar.

Taxable bonds will replace interim financing that funded land acquisition for the plant, which may not match the vision that drew state and local subsidies.

The agency is holding an "innovation challenge" in search of a public-private partnership to parallel its largely unused rail link to the new destination mall.

Vineyard Wind is revealing new details of its bid to develop an offshore wind farm off the southern coast of Massachusetts, including new investments in Bridgeport to convert a section of the city's fading port complex into a robust operations and maintenance hub.

Arizona's Salt River Project will sell $436 million of new money power revenue bonds.