Public finance

California has issued $3.3 billion of general obligation bonds for the high-speed rail project out of $9.9 billion authorized by voters.

The municipal bond primary was winding down on Thursday as the last of the week’s deals were hitting the screens.

School bonds for Wilson and Sulphur schools passed during Tuesday's special elections.

Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance, and Herve Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer at BNP Paribas, join Chip Barnett of The Bond Buyer to talk about the new and growing field of social impact bonds and what it is about them that appeals to both issuers and investors.

Vineyard Wind is looking to arrange financing for a $2.15 billion phase of the project by October, people said.

The federation issued its suggested budget roadmap Wednesday, ahead of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's first budget release.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had a lot to say about what she wants to do but no details on how to pay for it.

Municipal CUSIP requests increased in January on a year-over-year basis as new deals swarmed into the market.

Governance and economics, rather than cutting benefits, are increasingly seen as key to solving pension funding woes.

More new supply hit the screens led by general obligation deals from the District of Columbia and Delaware.

Ron DeSantis in Florida focuses his bond priorities on Transportation while Georgia's Brian Kemp wants to fund statewide capital needs.

The Fort Madison School Board on Monday adopted a resolution ordering a special election on the issuance of a $30 million general obligation bond.

What had been about $17.6 billion in COFINA bond par value became about $12 billion in new COFINA bond value.

The primary market was active on Tuesday as deals from the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and the state of Texas hit the screens.

Richard Neal, D-Mass., raised optimism among state treasurers that advance refunding of municipal bonds may be part of "a combination of funding sources."

The ideas are emerging as focal points in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s search for solutions to the state's pension underfunding.

The state of Texas competitively sold bonds while the DASNY deal was priced for retail investors.

Fixing up mass transit in metropolitan New York could involve several components, Mayor Bill de Blasio said as the city and state renewed their budget tussle.

Michigan State sold taxable bonds to finance a legal settlement in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse cases.

Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration issued an RFQ for an advisor to evaluate using state-owned assets to stabilize its pension system.