Public finance

Utilities serving 40 million people and 5 million acres of irrigated farm land agreed to a federal plan to keep water flowing amid a two-decade drought.

The city and county agreed to extend a hotel/motel tax to support bonds for a $175 million expansion.

More municipal supply hit the market on Wednesday with the University of Connecticut’s $240 million general obligation deal attracting interest.

Judge Swain's ruling complicates the Puerto Rico Oversight Board's effort to recover payments on $6 billion of bonds that the board deems to have been illegally sold.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's administration released the latest in a series of reports designed to provide a roadmap to get Atlantic City out of fiscal trouble.

The city moved up its bond notice and document postings in response to a BondLink report saying investors want more time to review deals.

The Orlando Sanford International Airport has launched a search for a new president and chief executive officer after Diane Crews recently announced that she plans to retire in September 2020.

Municipal bond analyst Natalie Cohen succeeds former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who now joins the bond insurer’s Strategic Advisory Committee.

Lower gas prices, remote working, easy driving and new competition from ride-share companies are taking slices of the pie.

The layout of Los Angeles means the concept wouldn't work as proposed in Manhattan, Eric Garcetti said in New York.

Municipal bond buyers faced a wide variety of securities that came to market on Monday.

Shawnee County, Kansas, commissioners on Monday morning approved by a 3-0 vote a resolution to issue about $13 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for a shopping development in west Topeka.

Franklin, with preliminary assets under management of $712.3 billion, including $63.4 billion of tax exempts, has suffered net outflows since 2014.

Jerry Zaro, chairman of Gateway Development Corp., discusses the importance of replacing a 108-year old rail tunnel linking New Jersey with Manhattan and how lack of support from the Trump administration has prevented the $12.7 billion project from getting off the ground. Andrew Coen hosts.

Action got underway in the primary on Monday as an Iowa school district sold over $100 million of general obligations.

Chairman Patrick Foye and board members want answers to repeated snafus over the installation of train safety technology.

A $1.6 billion note deal from the New York State Thruway Authority this week will roll over an issue sold in 2013 as part of a financing for the $4 billion Mario Cuomo Bridge.

S&P Global Ratings downgraded the University of Connecticut to A-plus from AA-minus.

The Bond Buyer's Northeast Regional Editor Paul Burton speaks to CBC President Andrew Rein about the NYC Fiscal 2020 executive budget.

Eric Garcetti unveiled his fiscal 2020 budget proposal for Los Angeles.